Contact Information
186 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Director, Illinois Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recent Publications
Bryan, E. E., Chen, X., Smith, B. N., Dilger, R. N., & Dilger, A. C. (2022). Maternal immune activation and dietary soy isoflavone supplementation influence pig immune function but not muscle fiber formation. Journal of animal science, 100(5), [skac134]. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skac134
Daniels, V. C., Monaco, M. H., Wang, M., Hirvonen, J., Jensen, H. M., Ouwehand, A. C., Mukherjea, R., Dilger, R. N., & Donovan, S. M. (2022). Evaluation of 2’-fucosyllactose and bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis on growth, organ weights, and intestinal development of piglets. Nutrients, 14(1), [199]. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14010199
Edwards, C. G., Walk, A. M., Thompson, S. V., Reeser, G. E., Dilger, R. N., Erdman, J. W., Burd, N. A., Holscher, H. D., & Khan, N. A. (2022). Dietary lutein plus zeaxanthin and choline intake is interactively associated with cognitive flexibility in middle-adulthood in adults with overweight and obesity. Nutritional Neuroscience, 25(7), 1437-1452. https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2020.1866867
Fraser, K., Ryan, L., Dilger, R. N., Dunstan, K., Armstrong, K., Peters, J., Stirrat, H., Haggerty, N., MacGibbon, A. K. H., Dekker, J., Young, W., & Roy, N. C. (2022). Impacts of Formula Supplemented with Milk Fat Globule Membrane on the Neurolipidome of Brain Regions of Piglets. Metabolites, 12(8), [689]. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12080689
Gaffield, K. N., Boler, D. D., Dilger, R. N., Dilger, A. C., & Harsh, B. N. (2022). Effects of feeding high oleic soybean oil to growing-finishing pigs on growth performance and carcass characteristics. Journal of animal science, 100(3), [skac071]. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skac071