Animal Sciences

Sep. 17, 2018

Wes Warren

March 7, 2018

Michal Zigo

My field of research is reproductive biology with a specific focus on male fertility, sperm function, and fertilization. Besides reproductive medicine, this work profoundly affects policy making, informing major decisions concerning human reproductive health, contraception, and individuals’ reproductive rights. I have been advancing our understanding of how the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), the universal protein recycling machinery, regulates the process of sperm capacitation necessary for sperm ability to fertilize eggs in humans and animals. I described the UPS-regulated, capacitation-induced re-modeling of the sperm proteome. I identified new UPS-regulated sperm proteins and developed a new protocol for selective, compartment-specific isolation of proteins…

March 6, 2018

Caroline Gomes Lucas

March 5, 2018

Helen Yampara-Iquise

Taylor lab

March 5, 2018

Amy Walsh

Elsik lab

March 5, 2018

Jordan Thomas

Jordan Thomas is an assistant professor in the Division of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri. Dr. Thomas is a Missouri native and University of Missouri alumnus, having earned his Ph.D. in Animal Sciences with an emphasis in Reproductive Physiology in 2017. Dr. Thomas maintains an active applied research program in reproductive management of beef cattle, coordinating the breeding program for cattle across the University of Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Research Center herds. Additionally, Dr. Thomas is active in collaborative efforts in education and outreach, such as the Show-Me-Select Replacement Heifer Program, the National Center for Applied Reproduction and…

March 5, 2018

Miriam Sutovsky

March 2, 2018

Lee Spate

Prather lab

March 2, 2018

Anna Spate

Prather lab

March 2, 2018

Susan Schommer

Prather lab