Juan Loor Lab

Dr. Loor: (217) 244-5957
Lab phone: (217) 244-6828
Fax: (217) 333-8286
E-mail:jloor@uiuc.edu

Mammalian NutriPhysioGenomics
1207 West Gregory Drive
498 ASL
Urbana, IL 61801

Senior Staff

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Guido Invernizzi - Postdoctoral Research Associate

Massimo Bionaz - Adjunct Postdoctoral Research Associate

Juan Loor - Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences (Nutrition, Comparative Genomics)

Visiting Scholars

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Eduardo Schmitt - PhD candidate

Graduate Students

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Daniel Graugnard - PhD; MS Thesis: Muscle gene expression in response to nutrition in beef cattle

Peng Ji - PhD (Co-advisor with James Drackley)

Johan Osorio - PhD

Sonia Moisa - MS/PhD

Aisha Naeem - MS/PhD

Jawad Khan - MS/PhD

Jing Li - MS

Undergraduate Students and Interns

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Former Lab Members/Visiting Scholars

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Mingfeng Jiang - PhD (Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor of Life Science and Biotechnology, Southwest University for Nationalities)

Arjava Sharma - PhD (Visiting Scholar, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Animal Genetics Division, India)

Manishi Mukesh - PhD (Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Animal Genetics Resources (NBAGR), India)

Rekha Sharma - PhD (Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Animal Genetics Resources (NBAGR), India)

Michael Ballou - PhD (Assistant Professor, Animal & Food Sciences, Texas Tech University)

David B. Carlson - PhD (Milk Products, Inc.)
Dissertation: L-carnitine supplementation for periparturient dairy cows

Simona Tramontana - PhD (Italy)

Anil Kadegowda - Post-doc (University of Maryland, College Park)

Nicole Janovick - PhD (University of Illinois College of Law, Juris Doctor Candidate, 2011)
Dissertation: Prepartum energy intake and its relationship to periparturient inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in dairy cows

Kasey Moyes - Post-doc (Department of Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark)

Mario Ordonez - Dairy Consulting Services of California

Paola Piantoni - MS
Thesis: Mammary gland gene expression profiles during prepuberty in response to nutrition and during forced involution at peak lactation in holstein cattle

Betsy Thering - MS (Cargill)
Thesis: Gene expression in response to lipid supplementation in dairy cattle

Amy Thatcher - BS; JBT Scholar