Contact Information
186 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Director, Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Recent Publications
Ahmed, M. W., Sprigler, A., Emmert, J. L., Dilger, R. N., Chowdhary, G., & Kamruzzaman, M. (2025). Non-destructive detection of pre-incubated chicken egg fertility using hyperspectral imaging and machine learning. Smart Agricultural Technology, 10, Article 100857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.100857
Metras, B. N., Oba, P. M., Holt, D. A., Bauer, L. L., Miller, M. J., Dilger, R. N., & Swanson, K. S. (2025). In vitro fermentation characteristics of dietary fibers using fecal inoculum from dogs consuming commercial or grain kefir. Journal of animal science, 103, Article skaf022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaf022
Sommer, K. M., Burris, E. S., Jespersen, J. C., Estes, K., Dilger, A. C., & Dilger, R. N. (2025). Graded supplemental choline chloride fed throughout the grow and finish periods elicited minimal influence on growth performance and carcass characteristics of pigs in a commercial setting. Journal of animal science, 103, Article skae386. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skae386
Wang, M., Monaco, M. H., Daniels, V. C., Hirvonen, J., Jensen, H. M., Ouwehand, A. C., Mukherjea, R., Christensen, N., Lehtinen, M. J., Hibberd, A. A., Dilger, R. N., & Donovan, S. M. (2025). Individual and Combined Effects of 2′-Fucosyllactose and Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis on the Gut Microbiota Composition of Piglets. Journal of Nutrition, 155(2), 509-522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.12.022
Bryan, E. E., Bode, N. M., Chen, X., Burris, E. S., Johnson, D. C., Dilger, R. N., & Dilger, A. C. (2024). The effect of chronic, non-pathogenic maternal immune activation on offspring postnatal muscle and immune outcomes. Journal of animal science, 102, Article skad424. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skad424