Faculty Presenters
Jan Dauve is an MU teaching associate professor of agricultural economics. He also serves as the director of undergraduate studies and adviser chair for the department. He received his doctorate from Colorado State University.
Georgia Davis is an MU assistant professor of agronomy with a research/teaching appointment in maize functional genomics.
Research interests in her laboratory include both structural and functional genomics. Specific research areas are molecular mapping, fungal resistance and insect resistance.
John Dodam is an associate professor of anesthesiology at MU's College of Veterinary Medicine. He earned his DVM (Veterinary Medicine) from Ohio State University and an M.S. in pharmacology from North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in physiology from North Carolina State University.
Shari Freyermuth is an MU assistant professor of biochemistry. She received a bachelor's degree in genetics from the University of Georgia and a doctoral degree in biochemistry and genetics from Duke University. She teaches biotechnology and molecular biology courses.
Freyermuth had the opportunity to go to a summer science program between her sophomore and junior years in high school loved it. She hopes everyone has an equally awesome time at MU for the Sciences of Life Academy!
David Ledoux is an associate professor in the MU Department of Animal Sciences. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Florida.
Ledoux's research involves investigation into methods for increasing mineral utilization by poultry, the effects of mycotoxin contamination of poultry feed ingredients and an evaluation of methods to detoxify contaminated feedstuffs.
Tony Lupo is an associate professor of atmospheric science in the MU Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences. His master's and doctoral degrees in atmospheric sciences are from Purdue University.
Lupo's expertise includes synoptic meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, climate and climate change. He has served as a contributing author and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC.)
Patrick Market is an MU associate professor of atmospheric science. Market received his bachelor's degree from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and his master's and doctoral degrees from Saint Louis University.
His interests include synoptic and mesoscale processes, weather forecasting, extratropical cyclone structure, Jet-front dynamics, precipitation efficiency and severe local storms.
Susan Melia-Hancock is the coordinator for the MU Plant Genomics Research Experience, a program for high school science teachers. She majored in biology with a botany emphasis at Sterling College in Sterling, Kan.
Melia-Hancock went to graduate school at Kansas State and studied crop production. Hancock was involved in the Maize Mapping Project with maize genetics mutants. She likes to spend a lot of time outside and loves plants and gardening.
Randy Miles is an associate professor of soil science and the director for Sanborn Field and Duley-Miller Research Plots. He also serves as the director for the Missouri Wastewater Small Flow Research and Training Center.
Josh Millspaugh is an MU associate professor of fisheries and wildlife. He earned his doctorate from the University of Washington.
His research interests include quantitative ecology, wildlife stress physiology, and ecology and management of large mammals.
Azlin Mustapha is an MU associate professor of food science. She majored in biology, food science and technology at the University of Nebraska.
Mustapha's research focuses on developing molecular-based techniques to detect pathogens in foods, the development of foods containing beneficial (probiotic) bacteria, and increasing the survival of probiotic bacteria in products and in the gastrointestinal tract.
Jim Spain is an assistant dean of CAFNR, a state dairy Extension specialist and an MU associate professor of animal science. He received his doctorate from Virginia Polytechnic.
Spain is involved in teaching and research in dairy nutrition, and participates in a number of the student activities and recruitment projects.
David Vaught is an instructor in parks, recreation, and tourism. His master's degree is from MU; Vaught is working on his doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis. His research focus is large-class teaching.
John Viator is an MU assistant professor of biological engineering. His undergraduate major was physics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Viator earned a master's degree in math from the University of Oregon. He then went to Oregon Health & Science University and earned a master's degree in applied physics and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering. His research is in biomedical optics, and he spends most of his time doing photo-acoustic imaging, which is a laser-induced ultrasound.
Walter Wehtje is the curator for MU's School of Natural Resources.
