National Program Leader For:

• Expanding Resiliency and Utility of Alfalfa in Agroecosystems
  
  Accession Number: 445054
  
  
• Improved Plant Genetic Resources and Methods to ensure Resilient and Productive Rangelands, Pastures, and Turf Landscapes
  
  Accession Number: 445071
  
  
• Developing Mitigation Strategies for Poisonous Plants in Livestock Production Systems
  
  Accession Number: 445578
  
  
• Integrated Research to Enhance Forage and Food Production from Southern Great Plains Agroecosystems
  
  Accession Number: 445628
  
  
• Resilient Plants and Production Systems in a Changing Climate for the Central Plains Bioeconomy
  
  Accession Number: 445727
  
  
• Developing Sustainable Forage and Cover Crop Systems for Dairy Farms
  
  Accession Number: 445743
  
  
• Genetic Improvement and Management of Warm-Season Forage, Feedstocks, Syrup, and Turf Grasses
  
  Accession Number: 445744
  
  
• Improving Sustainability of Turfgrass Systems through Germplasm Development
  
  Accession Number: 445766
  
  
• Genetic Improvement of Alfalfa for Enhanced Productivity under Abiotic Stress
  
  Accession Number: 445776
  
  
• Development of Plant and Molecular Resources to Improve Performance, Utility, and Tolerance of Cool Season Grasses and Legumes
  
  Accession Number: 445802
  
  
• Emerging Stress Challenges and Composition of Alfalfa Pathobiome
  
  Accession Number: 446362
  
  
• Agroecological Approach to Enhance U.S. Sheep Industry Viability and Rangeland Ecosystem Conservation
  
  Accession Number: 442283
  
  
• Approaches for Improving and Measuring Red Meat Quality and Composition
  
  Accession Number: 442301
  
  
• Integration of Small Ruminant Production into Orchard Enterprises to Improve Economic and Ecological Sustainability
  
  Accession Number: 442363
  
  
• National Animal Germplasm Program
  
  Accession Number: 442377
  
  
• Applying Nutritional Strategies to Improve Early Embryonic Development and Progeny Performance in Beef Cows
  
  Accession Number: 442475
  
  
• Accelerating Genetic Improvement of Ruminants Through Enhanced Genome Assembly, Annotation, and Selection
  
  Accession Number: 442481
  
  
• Increasing Accuracy of Genomic Prediction, Developing Algorithms, Selecting Markers, and Evaluating New Traits to Improve Dairy Cattle
  
  Accession Number: 442491
  
  
• Biophotonics - Emerging Imaging Technologies for Food Animal Research
  
  Accession Number: 442523
  
  
• Environmental and Management Influences on Animal Productivity and Well-Being Phenotypes
  
  Accession Number: 442533
  
  
• Development of New Technologies and Methods to Enhance the Fertility, Utilization, and Long-Term Storage of Poultry and Swine Germplasm
  
  Accession Number: 442575
  
  
• Improving Dairy Cow Feed Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability Using Genomics and Novel Technologies to Identify Physiological Contributions and Adaptations
  
  Accession Number: 442582
  
  
• Optimizing Nutrient Management and Efficiency of Beef Cattle and Swine
  
  Accession Number: 442588
  
  
• Genomes to Phenomes in Beef Cattle Research
  
  Accession Number: 442591
  
  
• Physiological, Microbiological, and Nutritional Mechanisms to Maintain Animal Productivity in the Absence of Antibiotics
  
  Accession Number: 442600
  
  
• Enhancing Beef Cattle Production and Finishing Systems in the Southern Great Plains
  
  Accession Number: 442608
  
  
• Discovery of Novel Traits to Improve Efficiency and Sustainability of Different Sheep Production Systems
  
  Accession Number: 442610
  
  
• Nutritional Strategies to Improve Production Efficiencies in Broiler Chickens
  
  Accession Number: 442615
  
  
• Identifying and Mitigating Factors that Limit Beef Production Efficiency
  
  Accession Number: 442622
  
  
• Alternatives to Antibiotics: Developing Novel Strategies to Improve Production Efficiency in Swine
  
  Accession Number: 442630
  
  
• Optimizing Welfare for Food Producing Animals
  
  Accession Number: 442656
  
  
• Forage and Feed Characteristics on Performance, Feed Efficiency, Environmental Impact, and Farm Nutrient Cycling of Dairy Production Systems
  
  Accession Number: 442697
  
  
• Improving Lifetime Productivity in Swine using Systems Biology and Precision Management Approaches
  
  Accession Number: 442712
  
  
• The Roles of Forage and Phytochemicals at the Plant-Microbe-Animal Nexus for Sustainable Ruminant
  
  Accession Number: 442960
  
  
• Developing Strategies to Improve Dairy Cow Performance and Nutrient Use Efficiency with Nutrition, Genetics, and Microbiology
  
  Accession Number: 442971
  
  
• Multi-Dimension Phenotyping to Enhance Prediction of Performance in Swine
  
  Accession Number: 443152
  
  
• Enhancing Genetic Resistance and Vaccinal Response to Control Marek's Disease, Infectious Laryngotracheitis, and Infectious Bursal Disease in Chicken
  
  Accession Number: 443180
  
  
• Improving Sustainability and Resiliency in Commercial Broiler Production
  
  Accession Number: 443190
  
  
• Reducing the Impact of Subclinical Enteric Infections on Performance and Gastrointestinal Function of Broilers
  
  Accession Number: 443259
  
  
• Validate Causative Mutations in Agriculturally-Important Vertebrates
  
  Accession Number: 443341