Ryan Dilger

Contact Information

1207 W. Gregory Dr.
186 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor, Animal Sciences
Research: Interdisciplinary Animal Research for Nutrition and Health

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)
Chair, Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

Recent Publications

Froebel, L. E., Rincker, M. J., & Dilger, R. N. (2026). Effects of dietary saponin and polyphenol supplementation in broiler chickens exposed to multiple mild stressors of cyclic elevated ambient temperature, feed withdrawal, and coccidiosis infection. Poultry science, 105(6), Article 106816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2026.106816

Froebel, L. E., Rincker, M. J., & Dilger, R. N. (2026). Establishing an experimental challenge model in broiler chickens exposed to multiple mild stressors of cyclic elevated ambient temperature, feed withdrawal, and coccidiosis infection. Poultry science, 105(2), Article 106290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2025.106290

Froebel, L. E., Watson, B. Y., Rincker, M. J., & Dilger, R. N. (2026). Temporal effects of a botanical feed additive and experimental housing methods in broilers exposed to an acute feed withdrawal period prior to coccidiosis inoculation. Poultry science, 105(7), Article 106929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2026.106929

Li, J., Hu, X., Lucic, A., Wu, Y., Condotta, I. C. F. S., Dilger, R. N., Ahuja, N., & Green-Miller, A. R. (2026). Promote computer vision applications in pig farming scenarios: High-quality dataset, fundamental models, and comparable performance. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 25(6), 2534-2544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2024.08.014

Shinnerl, H. E., Banks, I. J., & Dilger, R. N. (2026). A comparative review of chitin occurrence and quantification methodologies with applications to insect sourced materials. Carbohydrate Polymers, 371, Article 124496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2025.124496

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