Faculty of Land and Food Systems

All living things depend on the sustainability of the earth’s resources, and understanding how to protect and better manage those limited resources is crucial to our survival. Critical environmental issues like water pollution, food shortages and rising temperatures could have a catastrophic effect on our ability to meet basic human needs in the near future. Experts in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems are working on solutions to many of these challenges.

Our researchers are studying everything from climate change and storm water management to the relationship between food, nutrition, diet and health. The research discoveries being made here have the potential to reach across borders for world-wide applications.

We are also sharing what we’ve learned with the next generation of scientists - our students. They come to us with a strong sense of global responsibility, passionate about creating positive and lasting change on issues of importance. We believe that by providing them with the opportunity to learn outside the traditional classroom - taking part in a community-based experiential learning project or studying overseas - we can enhance their education and help them develop to their full potential.

Faculty Website

Fact Sheet

162

Master's Students

(2020)
56

Doctoral Students

(2020)
133

Graduate Degrees Awarded

(2020)
39

Full-Time Faculty

(2020)
7.4

million in Research Awards

(2019/2020)

Research Centres

Research Facilities

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems offers unique hands-on learning sites for graduate students, in addition to traditional labs where food science, food processing, and nutrition and health research take place.

UBC Farm is 24-hectare site on UBC Vancouver campus, which is a living laboratory that contains agricultural, forest, and transitional landscape areas for interdisciplinary field research. The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) located at UBC Farm is a unique research centre that aims to understand and fundamentally transform local and global food systems towards a more sustainable, food secure future.

The Dairy Education and Research Centre, located a 2-hour drive from UBC Vancouver campus, is an internationally recognized dairy cattle research centre supporting the development and adaptation of new technologies for the dairy industry in British Columbia and beyond. The Centre has a large research herd that can provide sufficient numbers of experimental animals at a given physiological stage to meet most research requirements. These features support a vibrant critical mass of students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, visiting scientists, and faculty. A 10,800 square-foot student residence building opened in September 2015, which allows students and researchers to live on-site at the Agassiz, B.C. research station, and more closely monitor their research projects in dairy cattle welfare, animal reproduction, and resource recovery.

The Wine Research Centre is located at UBC Vancouver campus and it has a modern and fully equipped mass spectrometry laboratory. Researchers in the Wine Research Centre also have access to the outstanding research facilities in the Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL) which is conveniently located adjacent to the Centre. The MSL has established itself as a force in the global biotechnology research community.

Research Highlights

In the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, our researchers are focused on finding viable solutions to pressing global crises and are known worldwide for their innovation and leadership in areas such as food science, dairy reproduction and animal welfare, sustainable agriculture, and community health and nutrition.

Our researchers have attracted millions of dollars in research funding from sources including Genome Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Michael Smith Scholar, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Our experts are conducting groundbreaking research in many areas including:

animal biology, health, and welfare;
ecofriendly alternatives in pest management;
food technology, genomics, and safety;
food processing and food waste management;
plant and soil health;
watershed management;
food security and sovereignty;
community health and nutrition;
agricultural land use and impact.

Graduate Degree Programs

Research Supervisors in Faculty

Name	Research Interests
Barichello, Richard	Capitlization of Government program benefits , quota systems and markets, agricultural policy, trade,industrial and agricultural pocliy reform in South East Asian Countries, economics of raw material export
Black, Jennifer	Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; food banks; food environments; Nutrition; Public health; school food environments; social determinants of health
Black, Thomas Andrew	Biometeorology; Soil physics; Microclimate modification
Brar, Gurcharn	Plant biology; Cereal pathology (wheat and barley in particular); Functional pathogenomics; Fungal biology; Genetics of host-pathogen interactions - disease resistance in crop plants; Plant imaging; Population genetics and genomics; Resistance breeding
Carrillo, Juli	Plant-insect interactions; Agroecology; Invasive species; evolution; Ecology; community ecology; Environmental Change; Plant evolution; Population Ecology
Castellarin, Simone	viticulture and grapevine physiology; physiological and molecular aspects that underlay fruit ripening and the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, and how they are modulated by the environment and viticultural practices; molecular viticulture
Cerri, Ronaldo	Animal and dairy sciences; Animal behaviour; Animal developmental and reproductive biology; Animal physiology; Agricultural Machinery and Technology; Animal Production; Animal Reproduction; Biotechnology and Activity monitors; Dairy cattle reproduction; Endocrine Regulation; Endometrium-conceptus cross communication; Estrous cycle physiology in cattle; Inflammation and stress; Production medicine in dairy cattle
Cohen, Tamara	understanding the interplay between different lifestyle behaviours; how eating behaviours relate to weight management; Obesity
Cornelis, Jean Thomas	Earth and related environmental sciences; Pedology; Biogeochemistry; Soil-Plant Interactions
Dee, Derek	Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; aspartic proteases; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Biophysics; Enzymes and Proteins; food chemistry; food proteins; funtional amyloid; meat analogues; Nanomaterials; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; prions; protein aggregation; protein engineering; Protein Folding; protein nanofibrils; Proteins; psychrophilic enzymes
Farrell, Anthony	Angiogenesis
Fraser, David	Welfare of animals on farms, animal ethics, animal behaviour, Animal welfare, innovations in animal housing and management, practical and cultural dimensions of applying ethics to animal issues
Gulati, Sumeet	Agricultural economics; Economics of Human Wildlife Conflict; Economics of Urban Transportation; Effectiveness of Carbon Taxes; Effectiveness of Environmental Policy; International Trade and its Effect on the Environment; Political Economy of Environmental and Trade Policy
Jessri, Mahsa	Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; Epidemiology; Nutrition; Health Policies; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Health Promotion; Health Prevention; Statistics and Probabilities; Preventive Medicine; Artificial Intelligence; Chronic Disease Prevention; clinical epidemiology; Dietary Assessment; Dietary Pattern Modeling; Dietetics; Machine Learning; Nutritional Epidemiology; predictive analytics; Public and Population Health; Simulation
Jovel, Eduardo	Ethnobotany, mycology, natural product chemistry and Aboriginal health
Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn	Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation
Kitts, David	Food chemistry and toxicology, cellular and molecular mechanism, oncology
Knipfer, Thorsten
Krzic, Maja	Soil sciences; Soil quality; Soil management
Lamers, Yvonne	Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins
McAusland, Carol	Interactions between globalization and public good provision, impacts of trade liberalization on environmental politics, potential use of trade policy to stem damages from exotic species introductions and biological invasions Environmental impacts of international trade, implications of skilled labor migration for the global provision of public goods
Measday, Vivien	Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools
Noack, Frederik	Interaction of economic development and the environment
Pratap Singh, Anubhav	Environment and natural resources economics; Food sciences (including food engineering); Natural resource management; Agri-food Transformation Products; cold plasma; food engineering; food processing; Functional Foods; heat transfer; high pressure; mass transfer; novel non-thermal processing; Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods; pasteurization; pulsed light; sterilization
Protopopova, Alexandra	Animal; Community Health / Public Health; rabbit; dog; cat; animal shelter; Animal behaviour; Animal welfare; community initiatives; climate change and pet ownership; cultural differences in human-companion animal relationships; free-ranging dogs; one health

Graduate Student Stories

Asmita Sharma

Master of Food Science (MFS)

Connie Fan

Master of Food Science (MFS)

Trevor Arsenault

Master of Food Science (MFS)

CHINCHENG LIN

Master of Food Science (MFS)

Jordie Fischer

Master of Science in Human Nutrition (MSc)

Benefits and potential harms of iron supplementation on iron status and gut inflammation in Cambodian women

Adelia Jacobs

Master of Science in Human Nutrition (MSc)

Nutritional Epidemiology

Jens Johnson

Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Science (PhD)

Disentagling drivers of wild bee abundance and diversity and pollination services

Anna Ratuski

Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)

Use of environmental enrichment to improve the welfare of rodents used in science

Alumni on Success

Andrea Goldson Barnaby

Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science (PhD) [2012]

Job Title
Lecturer and Programme Coordinator

Employer
University of the West Indies

Elisabeth Ormandy

Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD) [2012]

Job Title
Co-founder and Executive Director

Employer
Animals in Science Policy Institute

Naomi Robert

Master of Land and Water Systems (MLWS) [2015]

Job Title
Research Associate

Employer
Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Elaine Anderson

Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems (PhD) [2009]

Job Title
Regional Environmental Protection Coordinator

Employer
Correctional Service of Canada

Isaac Jonas

Master of Food and Resource Economics (MFRE)

Job Title
Founding CEO

Employer
Impact Africa

Recent Publications

This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

Postpartum corticosterone and fluoxetine shift the tryptophan-kynurenine pathway in dams

Publication: Psychoneuroendocrinology
UBC Author(s): Katja Yvonne Lamers (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 03064530
Volume: 130
Publication Date: August 2021

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Captivity-Induced Depression in Animals

Publication: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
UBC Author(s): Daniel Weary (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems), Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 13646613
Volume: 25
Page Range: 539-541
Publication Date: July 2021

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Revisiting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canada's agricultural trade: The surprising case of an agricultural export boom

Publication: Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
UBC Author(s): Richard Barichello (Food and Resource Economics / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00083976
Volume: 69
Page Range: 251-260
Publication Date: June 2021

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Electro-based technologies in food drying - A comprehensive review

Publication: LWT
UBC Author(s): Anubhav Pratap Singh (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00236438
Volume: 145
Publication Date: June 2021

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Corrigendum to "Addition of straw to the early-lactation diet: Effects on feed intake, milk yield, and subclinical ketosis in Holstein cows" (J. Dairy Sci. 104:3008-3017)

Publication: Journal of dairy science
UBC Author(s): Daniel Weary (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems), Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 104
Page Range: 7343
Publication Date: 1 June 2021

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Daily oral supplementation with 60 mg of elemental iron for 12 weeks alters blood mitochondrial dna content, but not leukocyte telomere length in cambodian women

Publication: Nutrients
UBC Author(s): Crystal Dawn Karakochuk (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 13
Publication Date: June 2021

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Diversification supports farm income and improved working conditions during agroecological transitions in southern Brazil

Publication: Agronomy for Sustainable Development
UBC Author(s): Hannah Wittman (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 17740746
Volume: 41
Publication Date: June 2021

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Inherent and stress-induced responses of fine root morphology and anatomy in commercial grapevine rootstocks with contrasting drought resistance

Publication: Plants
UBC Author(s): Thorsten Knipfer (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 10
Publication Date: June 2021

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Using Realistic Evaluation to understand how interventions work on dairy farms

Publication: Animal
UBC Author(s): Daniel Weary (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems), Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 17517311
Volume: 15
Publication Date: June 2021

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Impact of high-dose folic acid supplementation in pregnancy on biomarkers of folate status and 1-carbon metabolism: An ancillary study of the Folic Acid Clinical Trial (FACT)

Publication: The American journal of clinical nutrition
UBC Author(s): Katja Yvonne Lamers (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 113
Page Range: 1361-1371
Publication Date: 8 May 2021

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Multidisciplinary studies of folk medicine “five thieves’ oil” (Olejek pięciu złodziei) components

Publication: Molecules
UBC Author(s): Anubhav Pratap Singh (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 26
Publication Date: 2 May 2021

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Resilience of cardiac performance in Antarctic notothenioid fishes in a warming climate

Publication: Journal of Experimental Biology
UBC Author(s): Anthony Farrell (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00220949
Volume: 224
Publication Date: May 2021

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A shift from phenol to silica-based leaf defences during long-term soil and ecosystem development

Publication: Ecology Letters
UBC Author(s): Jean Thomas Cornelis (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 1461023X
Volume: 24
Page Range: 984-995
Publication Date: May 2021

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Employee management and animal care: A comparative ethnography of two large-scale dairy farms in china

Publication: Animals
UBC Author(s): Daniel Weary (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems), Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 11
Publication Date: May 2021

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Gene editing for improved animal welfare and production traits in cattle: Will this technology be embraced or rejected by the public?

Publication: Sustainability (Switzerland)
UBC Author(s): Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 13
Publication Date: 1 May 2021

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Effects of positive reinforcement training for heifers on responses to a subcutaneous injection

Publication: Journal of Dairy Science
UBC Author(s): Daniel Weary (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems), Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00220302
Volume: 104
Page Range: 6146-6158
Publication Date: May 2021

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Pairwise comparison locomotion scoring for dairy cattle

Publication: Journal of Dairy Science
UBC Author(s): Daniel Weary (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00220302
Volume: 104
Page Range: 6185-6193
Publication Date: May 2021

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Valid oxygen uptake measurements: using high r<sup>2</sup> values with good intentions can bias upward the determination of standard metabolic rate

Publication: Journal of Fish Biology
UBC Author(s): Anthony Farrell (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00221112
Volume: 98
Page Range: 1206-1216
Publication Date: May 2021

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Optimal ultrasonication process time remains constant for a specific nanoemulsion size reduction system

Publication: Scientific reports
UBC Author(s): Anubhav Pratap Singh (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 11
Page Range: 9241
Publication Date: 29 April 2021

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In Vitro Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities of Egyptian Citrus Beebread

Publication: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
UBC Author(s): Anubhav Pratap Singh (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 26
Publication Date: 22 April 2021

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Detectable Unmetabolized Folic Acid and Elevated Folate Concentrations in Folic Acid-Supplemented Canadian Children With Sickle Cell Disease

Publication: Frontiers in Nutrition
UBC Author(s): Crystal Dawn Karakochuk (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 8
Publication Date: 21 April 2021

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Organo-mineral associations largely contribute to the stabilization of century-old pyrogenic organic matter in cropland soils

Publication: Geoderma
UBC Author(s): Jean Thomas Cornelis (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
ISSN: 00167061
Volume: 388
Publication Date: 15 April 2021

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The Dispensable Surplus Dairy Calf: Is This Issue a “Wicked Problem” and Where Do We Go From Here?

Publication: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
UBC Author(s): Marina von Keyserlingk (Applied Biology / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 8
Publication Date: 14 April 2021

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An Approach for Integrating and Analyzing Sustainability in Food-Based Dietary Guidelines

Publication: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
UBC Author(s): Jennifer Black (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 5
Publication Date: 6 April 2021

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Active biodegradable films based on sweet lime peel residue and its effect on quality of fish fillets

Publication: Polymers
UBC Author(s): Anubhav Pratap Singh (Food, Nutrition & Health / Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Volume: 13
Publication Date: 2 April 2021

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Recent Thesis Submissions

Maternal vitamin B₁₂ status in early pregnancy and its association with birth outcomes and newborn vitamin B₁₂ status (Human Nutrition - MSC)
Dairy cow behaviour and estrous expression : effects of disease and management (Applied Animal Biology - PHD)
Innovative strategies for the control of Campylobacter jejuni in agri-foods (Food Science - PHD)
Riboflavin : intake, status, and relation to anemia among women of reproductive age (Human Nutrition - PHD)
Employee management and animal care: a comparative ethnography of two large-scale dairy farms in China (Applied Animal Biology - MSC)
Interpreting species, intraspecific and intra-individual variability by comprehensively characterizing a fish’s respiratory phenotype with valid measures of oxygen uptake (Applied Animal Biology - PHD)
Assessing the impacts of agriculture on soil quality in a five-year crop-livestock rotation in the Fraser River delta, British Columbia (Soil Science - MSC)
Development of microfluidic paper-based analytical device to detect chemical hazards in food (Food Science - MSC)
Prevalence and characterization of Campylobacter isolated from chicken products in metro Vancouver (Food Science - MSC)
Effect of medical foods used in dietary management of subjects with propionic acidemia (PROP) (Human Nutrition - MSC)
Greenhouse gas exchange above potato and pea fields in the lower Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada (Soil Science - MSC)
Examining selected soil properties on the lower Fraser River delta following four-year grassland set-aside (Soil Science - MSC)
Evaluating hedgerow and riparian buffer carbon storage potential in the Lower Fraser Valley from a field- and landscape-level perspective (Integrated Studies In Land and Food Systems - MSC)
Precision dairy technology and its association with estrous expression and fertility outcomes in Holstein cattle (Applied Animal Biology - PHD)
Understanding farmer decision-making and the role of advisors to improve dairy cattle welfare (Applied Animal Biology - PHD)
Assessing mood changes and vulnerability to stressors in dairy cattle (Applied Animal Biology - PHD)
Development of a vitamin B12 fortified yoghurt and its efficacy on vitamin B12 status in older adults (Human Nutrition - MSC)
Assessment of the affective component of pain in dairy calves (Applied Animal Biology - PHD)
Double (iron and zinc) fortified black tea : assessing the bioaccessibility and bioavailability using spray drying microencapsulation technology (Food Science - MSC)
Soil, crop yield, and cost trade-offs of organic nutrient management strategies across mixed vegetable farms in southwest British Columbia (Soil Science - MSC)
Healing the land by reclaiming an Indigenous ecology : a journey exploring the application of the Indigenous worldview to invasion biology and ecology (Integrated Studies In Land and Food Systems - PHD)
Impact of temperature regimes on flavonoid accumulation in Merlot (Vitis vinifera L.) grapes (Plant Science - MSC)
The effect of animal shelter sound on cat behaviour and welfare (Applied Animal Biology - MSC)
Toxicity across food webs : effect of a botanical extract on tri-trophic interactions in tomato (Plant Science - MSC)
Biochemical riboflavin status and its predictors in adult women aged 51-70 years in Metro Vancouver (Human Nutrition - MSC)
The effect of animal shelter sound on cat behaviour and welfare (Applied Animal Biology - MSC)
In silico insights into the membrane binding mechanism and role of disulfide bridges in the Solanum tuberosum plant specific insert (Food Science - PHD)
The effects of nitrogen fertilizer rates and planting date on greenhouse gas emissions and potato production in Delta, British Columbia (Soil Science - MSC)
The use of calving behaviours and automated activity monitors to predict and detect parturition and uterine diseases in Holstein cattle (Applied Animal Biology - MSC)
Characterizing the beneficial ecological association of endophytic bacteria with lodgepole pine trees naturally-regenerating at unreclaimed gravel mining pits (Soil Science - PHD)

Doctoral Citations

A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.

Year	Citation	Program
2021	Dr. Zhang coined the Integrated Respiratory Assessment Paradigm for accurate, precise, repeatable and comprehensive respiratory phenotype characterization for individual fish. This high throughput method allows biologists to develop and integrate a metabolic model with a genomic-physiology-ecology axis, leading to a better understanding of evolution.	Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)
2021	Dr. Ede examined the potential of place aversion to assess affective pain in dairy calves. Basing the experimental approach on the animal's memory of common painful procedures such as injections and disbudding, calves were shown to display an emotional response to pain.	Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)
2021	Automated activity monitors used on dairy farms help detect periods of sexual receptivity, called estrus, in lactating cows. Dr. Madureira's research demonstrated that estrous expression detected by such monitors was associated with better fertility and reduced pregnancy loss, and can help the efficiency of reproductive management in dairy herds.	Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)
2021	Dr. Lecorps investigated the effects of some common stressful and painful procedures on dairy cattle welfare. He found that some procedures likely induce negative mood and that some personality traits (e.g. pessimism) may render calves more vulnerable to stressors. His work shows that more research is needed to improve the welfare of dairy cattle.	Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)
2021	Dr. Mills studied farmer decision-making and the role of their advisors to improve the welfare of dairy cows. The goal of this work is to help farmers better manage their businesses and improve the lives of the animals under their care.	Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)
2020	Dr. Mujica Coopman investigated the relationship of combined B vitamin and related nutrients with offspring birth size and fetal growth programming. Her findings suggest that vitamin B12 characterized maternal B vitamin and nutrient-related patterns and may play a key role in fetal growth and development.	Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition (PhD)
2020	Dr. Grenz showed how reclaiming an Indigenous Ecology redefines how we approach land and water healing. She has created a values-based decision-making tool that will help lead us toward ecological reconciliation. Her work provides a path forward for scientists to unleash the potential of an Indigenous worldview to illuminate new paths of inquiry.	Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems (PhD)
2020	Dr. Padda explored the role of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in supporting the regeneration of lodgepole pine trees at abandoned gravel mining pits. Her research showed that pine trees associate with these beneficial bacteria as a survival strategy to thrive on such degraded sites, offering the potential to be used as a sustainable reclamation tool.	Doctor of Philosophy in Soil Science (PhD)
2020	Dr. Puri studied plant-beneficial bacteria living inside the tissues of boreal forest trees growing on disturbed, nutrient-poor soils. His work indicated that these bacteria can enhance tree growth via nutrient acquisition, plant hormone modulation and pathogen regulation, thereby suggesting their use as biofertilizers for boreal forest trees.	Doctor of Philosophy in Soil Science (PhD)
2020	Dr. Dupuis used computer simulations to better understand how an antimicrobial potato protein interacts with model cell membranes, and the role of its disulfide bonds. His research highlighted regions of the protein most likely to mediate membrane interactions, and that the disulfide bonds may aid in membrane targeting specificity.	Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science (PhD)

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