Elijah KiariePosition/Title: Professor of Monogastric Nutrition (McIntosh Family Professorship in Poultry Nutrition) email: [email protected] Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 53746 Office: ANNU 226
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Research focus
Integration of parental, in-ovo and early life nutrition strategies to bolster gastrointestinal and skeletal development for enhanced productivity and reduction in antibiotic use
Evaluation of novel feed ingredients, feedstuffs processing technologies and innovative feed additives to mitigate feed cost and environmental impact of animal protein production
Courses
ANSC*6250 Growth and Metabolism
Graduate Student Information
We have access to advanced poultry research facilities ranging from isolator units for specific pathogen studies, hatchery to modular barns for any scale of poultry nutrition research. The Department of Animal Biosciences has more than 30 faculty members with a range of expertise to draw upon. Students have access to the state-of-the-art instrumentations for high-throughput genomics, spectrometry, chromatography, microscopy, microfluidics, cell culture, and advanced nutrition analytics. All these provide an excellent training environment for graduate students in terms of modern facilities, a large cohort of graduate students, a large pool of expertise to serve in graduate advisory committees and faculty to interact with in a well-organized graduate program.
Current research team:
- Alexander Wickhorst MSc. Thesis
- Afred Donkor MSc. CW
- Sylvester Mutinda MSc. Thesis
- Reza Bakhshalinejad PhD
- Paul Waliaula PhD; Co-advised Dr. Moussa S. Diarra
- Felix Muchiri PhD
- Lonita Manoa PhD
- Cuilan (Julia) Zhu (Research Tech.)
- Veronica Cheng (Research Asst./Tech.)
Alumni
- Dr. Anderson Maina PhD, 2021-2024
- Aline Pereira MSc., 2021-2023
- Dr. Philip Mak PhD, Co-advised Dr. Moussa S. Diarra, 2020-2023
- Anastasia Tsementzis MSc., 2021-2023
- Alison Gelinas MSc., 2021-2023
- Dr. Emily Kim MSc., 2016-2018; PhD, 2018-2023
- Dr. Aizwarya Thanabalan MSc., 2017-2019; PhD, 2019-2023
- Dr. Munene Kithama PhD, 2019-2022
- Dr. Lisa Bean-Hodgins PhD, 2019-2022
- Jessica Gasarabwe Research Asst. 2021-2022
- Colin De Cloet MSc., 2021-2022
- Felix Njeri (VIRS MSc., Uni. of Nairobi; Kenya), 2021-2022
- Juan Sanchez MSc., 2019-2022
- Hannah Facey MSc., 2020-2022
- Veronica Cheng MSc., 2020-2021; Research Asst., 2021
- Zipporah Mwaniki MSc., 2017-2019; Research Asst., 2019-2021
- Funmilola Adeola Alabi (VIRS PhD, North-West Uni.; South Africa), 2019-2021
- Dr. Mohsen Mohammadigheisar PDF, 2017-2021
- Dr. Reza Akbari Moghaddam Kakhki PhD, 2017-2021
- Dr. Youngji Rho MSc., 2015-2017; PhD, 2017-2021
- Aline Pereira (VIRS DVM, Federal Uni. Paraná; Brazil), 2019-2020
- Dr. Tanka Khanal PhD, 2017-2020
- Alisha Mills (nee. Wornath-Vanhumbeck) MSc., 2016-2020
- Ilona Parenteau MSc., 2017-2019
- Dr. Neijat Mohamed PDF, 2017-2019
- Dr. Zhuang Lu, (VIRS PhD, Nanjing Agri. Uni.; China), 2018
- Haley Leung MSc., 2016-2018
Publications