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Tara Abraham
Associate Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: History of medicine, history of psychiatry and psychology; professionalization, disciplinary identity, medical pedagogy.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/tara-abraham
Sarah Alderman
Assistant Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Mechanisms and consequences of stress on animal physiology; environmental stressors on neural, endocrine and cardiac systems.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/alderman
Madhur Anand
Professor | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Global ecological change, sustainability science, ecological modelling, coupled human behaviour-environmental change systems, biodiversity, creative writing.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/madhur-anand
Emmanuelle Arnaud
Associate Professor | Assistant Dean, Graduate Programs | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Glacial geology, geology and groundwater, sedimentary geology, environmental geology, deformation structures, ice-marginal settings, agricultural and industrial contaminants, sedimentological analysis, spatial distribution and physical properties of glacial deposits.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/emmanuelle-arnaud
Andrew Bailey
Professor | Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies | Philosophy | College of Arts
Research interests: phenomenal consciousness, physicalism, mental causation and epiphenomenalism, phenomenal intentionality, panpsychism, and theories of perception; the problems of phenomenal consciousness, embodied cognition, and the thought of William James.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/andrew-bailey
Shane Bateman
Associate Professor | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Community-engaged service learning projects, veterinary palliative care, human-animal bond, coagulation abnormalities, lung injury, pain management and assessment.
Faculty interests: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/shane-bateman/
Cathy Bauman
Assistant Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research Interests: Diagnostic test evaluations (especially using Bayesian methods), epidemiology, dairy small ruminants, and clinical trials.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Cathy-Bauman
Olaf Berke
Associate Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research Interests: Statistical epidemiology, spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, biostatistics, zoonoses, environmental epidemiology, disease surveillance, meta-analysis, time series analysis, reproducible research, public health, one health
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/olaf-berke/
Joey Bernhardt
Assistant Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: My research aims to advance our fundamental understanding of the drivers of biodiversity change and the consequences of these changes for human well-being. My research advances a solution to this research challenge by studying the processes that unite all of life on Earth – the metabolic processes by which living systems uptake, store and convert energy, matter and information from their environments to grow and persist.
Faculty profile: https://www.bernhardtlab.org/
Emma Borkowski
Assistant Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Veterinary parasitology, especially parasites of livestock, immune responses to parasites, sustainable parasite control.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/emma-borkowski
Elizabeth Boulding
Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Invasion biology, genetic adaptation, genomic selection and growth, shape, and pathogen-resistant traits in Atlantic salmon, assessment of heritable variation in biological control.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/boulding
Samantha Brennan
Professor | Dean | Philosophy | College of Arts
Research interests: Contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics including health care ethics, and feminist philosophy
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/people/samantha-brennan
Byram Bridle
Associate Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Viral immunology, cancer treatment, personalized therapy, cytokine responses to viruses in males and females, inflammation disorders.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Byram-W-Bridle
Ruben Burga
Assistant Professor | Management | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Organizational leadership and management issues in social entrepreneurship/enterprises; knowledge transfer, stakeholder theory, sustainability and accountability principles and their effect on firm performance.
Faculty profile: www.uoguelph.ca/lang/people/ruben-burga
Jamie Burr
Associate Professor | Human Health and Nutritional Sciences | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Novel training methods, interventions and supplements which may lead to adaptation and performance improvement; the effects of physical activity, sport, and exercise to alter cardiovascular form and function.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/hhns/people/dr-jamie-burr
Wayne Caldwell
Professor | Environmental Design and Rural Development | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: The future of rural communities, planning, community development, agricultural land preservation, siting livestock facilities, rural land use, and the environment, measuring farmland loss, immigration in rural communities, food security, and rural resilience.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/sedrd/people/wayne-caldwell
Catherine Carstairs
Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: History of medicine, history of public health, gender history, dentistry, drug and alcohol use.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/people/catherine-carstairs
Alex Chan
Assistant Professor | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Neurocritical care, neuroimaging, neuromuscular diseases, veterinary neurology.
Faculty profile: available soon!
Chris Choi
Professor | Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Tourist engagement, travel and happiness, conscious consumption, sustainable tourism management, authenticity, value in use and exchange, attitudinal scale development.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/hs-chris-choi
Katie Clow
Assistant Professor | Graduate Program Coordinator, One Health | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, disease ecology, epidemiology, surveillance, One Health pedagogy.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Katie-Clow
Marc Coppolino
Associate Professor | Chair | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Cell adhesion and migration in disease progression; tumour cell invasion and metastasis; biochemical signalling in health and disease.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-marc-coppolino
Karl Cottenie
Associate Professor | Graduate Co-ordinator | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Community ecology, metacommunity dynamics, molecular identification, data analysis in R, instruction, graduate training, Spatio-temporal analysis, computational ecology.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/cottenie
Georgina Cox
Assistant Professor | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: How bacteria resist antibiotics and how they interact with their host. Identifying and developing alternatives to antibacterial chemotherapy.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-georgina-cox
Sherri Cox
Assistant Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Welfare of wild animals, restoring health to sick and injured wildlife, anthropogenic effects on wildlife that have been admitted to rehabilitation centres, investigating morbidities in individual wild animals admitted to rehabilitation centres.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/Sherri_Cox
Rozita Dara
Associate Professor | Computer Science | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, decision support systems, data standardization and integration analysis, information privacy, and data governance.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/computing/people/rozita-dara
Anne Deckert
Special Graduate Faculty | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: One Health; antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in humans, animals, and food; swine health; integrated surveillance; Central Asia
Faculty profile: https://www.uoguelph.ca/osrn/people/anne-deckert
One Health Faculty Interview with Dr. Anne Deckert: Mitigating Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a serious threat to global health by diminishing the effectiveness of antibiotics, which can be addressed through understanding livestock health management. Researcher Dr. Anne Deckert of the Ontario Veterinary College is part of a collaborative team in public health surveilling AMR in swine to safeguard human and animal health. Photo: www.oasv.ca
Dr. Anne Deckert’s research at Canada Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) involves monitoring trends in AMR and factors impacting those trends, such as how health status and demographic information within swine production systems impact antimicrobial use. Close interactions between livestock and humans can result in exposure to resistant organisms, so assessing different uses of antimicrobials and understanding those that are important in human medicine is critical to livestock management and mitigating AMR. Surveillance of AMR allows Dr. Deckert to identify potential problems or areas that need more research in antimicrobial use and identify new and emerging diseases in swine.
Using a One Health approach with CIPARS has expanded the reach and applications of Dr. Deckert’s research, such as identifying trends between human health and swine health. Her work in public health has helped individuals directly working with livestock understand what AMR is. While a challenge to the One Health approach has been the limited understanding of livestock production systems within public health, her expertise has improved the understanding of livestock production within public health. Further environmental monitoring of AMR is peripheral to Dr. Deckert’s work; however, there are developing opportunities for collaboration with organizations to expand our understanding of the breadth of AMR.
Dr. Deckert has been on several graduate committees involving AMR use and is excited to start full time at OVC in a swine health management position in February 2024 to become further involved with the university.
2023. Authored by Nellissa Stalenhoef, Collaborative Specialization in One Health
Don Dedrick
Associate Professor | Philosophy | College of Arts
Associate Professor | Psychology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Colour perception and categorization, cognitive science and its foundations, culture and cognition, the evolution of culture, experimental philosophy.
Faculty Profiles: uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/don-dedrick , uoguelph.ca/psychology/users/don-dedrick
Giannina Descalzi
Assistant Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: The intersection of pain and emotion, pain-induced dysregulation of brain circuits and gene function, chronic pain in companion and production animals, multidisciplinary approach to determine causal relationships between circuit level changes in gene expression and behavioural pathology, astrocyte-neuronal coupling in chronic pain, chronic pain during development
Faculty Profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/giannina-descalzi/
Cate Dewey
Professor | Director of the One Health Institute | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Prevention of zoonotic and food borne diseases, epidemiology, observational studies, swine health management, transmission and impact of swine diseases, enhancing health and livelihoods of small holder farmers, One Health community projects.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Cate-Dewey
Sonia Dhaliwal
Assistant Professor | Management | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests:
Sonia’s research interest span in three broad categories. Firstly, Sonia’s research aims to produce knowledge that speaks directly to issues faced by industry, policy setters and regulators in the area of taxation and accounting. She focuses on research areas that are of interest and relevance to accounting and tax practitioners with a goal to mobilize the knowledge beyond the academic world. Finally, Sonia’s research interest lie in the area of scholarship of teaching and learning in order to effectively lead and help students develop the skills needed to excel in the field of taxation and accounting.
Faculty profile: https://www.uoguelph.ca/lang/people/sonia-dhaliwal
Tirtha Dhar
Associate Professor | Interim Chair | Marketing and Consumer Studies | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Quantitative marketing and industrial organization, marketing strategy and public policy, food and health marketing, analytical marketing modelling, retailing and channel management, movie marketing, and e-Commerce.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/tirtha-dhar
Todd Duffield
Professor | Chair | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Metabolic disease in dairy cows, impact of lonophores in dairy cattle, pain management of dairy cattle, management of disease.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/todd-duffield/
Lisa Duizer
Associate Professor | Chair | Food Science | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Descriptive analysis of whole grain products, perceptions of tastes and textures, sensory evaluation and aging.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/lisa-duizer
Kari Dunfield
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology of Agro-ecosystems | Co-Executive Director, Soils@Guelph | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: The relationship between genetic diversity of soil microbial communities and soil ecosystem functioning; the impact of agricultural and environmental practices on soil microbial communities and microbially mediated soil processes; environmental microbiology, soil microbiology, bioremediation, applied soil ecology, molecular microbial ecology.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/kari-dunfield
Animesh Dutta
Professor | Associate Director (Graduate Studies) | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Thermochemical conservation of agri-residue and bio-mass for energy, renewable and cleaner energy, water gasification for energy, assessment of advanced energy systems, thermodynamic optimization & lifecycle analysis.
Faculty profile: www.uoguelph.ca/engineering/content/faculty/animesh-dutta
Tuğçe Ellialtı-Köse
Assistant Professor | Sociology & Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Law and society; gender, law, and social justice; law, medicine, and science, especially in criminal justice responses to gender-based and sexual violence; feminism and feminist theory, institutional ethnography; research methods.
Faculty profile: https://socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/tugce-ellialti-kose
Ming Z. Fan
Professor | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Understanding how nutrients affect physiological functions, wellbeing and health, using biotechnologies and genomics tools to understand how the environment is impacted by animal production, gastrointestinal physiology, nutrition and metabolism in pigs.
Faculty profile: animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/abscpeople/mfan
Laura Favetta
Assistant Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) and toxicants on gene expression and molecular mechanisms regulating early embryonic development; effect of CNV of genes on the Y-chromosome in relation to disease and fertility; reproductive toxicology in the bovine model with large translational potential on humans and other mammals
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/laura-favetta/
Zeny Feng
Professor | Mathematics & Statistics | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: My research lab is working on a broad range of projects but share a common theme on the development of statistical and computational tools or strategies for analyzing diverse type of data arising from different studies and addressing issues arising from these data analyses . Specifically, my research interests covers statistical genetics, bioinformatics, microbiome data analysis, infectious disease modelling, and environmental health. We are interested in applying statistical and computational tools to analyze data from different studies.
Faculty profile: https://mathstat.uoguelph.ca/people/feng
Elizabeth Finnis
Associate Professor | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Smaller-scale farming, local food systems, agricultural and dietary transitions, food sovereignty, political ecology, qualitative methods, Canada, India, and Paraguay.
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/elizabeth-finnis-0
Lianne Foti
Associate Professor | Management and Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Consumer behaviour, ethical decision making, international marketing, social marketing.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/lianne-foti
Karine Gagné
Assistant Professor | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Climate change, ethics of care, human-animal relations, environment and infrastructure, citizenship, environmental knowledge.
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/karine-gagné
Jennifer Geddes-McAlister
Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair | Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Host-pathogen interactions; Fungal disease; Antifungal resistance; Mass spectrometry-based proteomics; Global food security and health; Systems biology; Bioinformatics
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-jennifer-geddes-mcalister
Daniel Gillis
Associate Professor | Computer Science | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Public health risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, spatial temporal statistics, alternative data collection, community engaged scholarship, transdisciplinary education.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/computing/people/daniel-gillis
Todd Gillis
Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: The cellular mechanisms underpinning cardiac function in vertebrates, the evolution of muscle contrition regulation, the molecular mechanisms underlying the remodelling capacity of the fish heart, bitumen exposure consequences on the development and function of the salmonid heart, hagfish performance during prolonged periods of anoxia.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/gillis
Brandon Gilroyed
Associate Professor | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Renewable energy and biochemical production from agricultural byproducts and wastes; environmental sustainability; livestock mortality management; pathogens in engineered agricultural systems.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ses/people/brandon-gilroyed
Maya Goldenberg
Professor | Philosophy | College of Arts
Research interests: Philosophy of medicine, philosophy of science, bioethics, women’s health, understanding when knowledge claims are justified in health care, evidence-based medicine, the decision-making framework that relies on clinical trial evidence, vaccine hesitancy.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/maya-j-goldenberg
Rosario Gómez
Associate Professor | School of Languages and Literatures | College of Arts
Research interests: Spanish / English linguistics, sociolinguistics, English / Spanish phonology, phonetics, romance philology, translation studies, Spanish and English as a second language.
Faculty profile: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/people/rosario-g%C3%B3mez
Minglun Gong
Professor | Computer Science | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Visual computing; computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, image processing, and pattern recognition.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/computing/people/minglun-gong
Lawrence Goodridge
Professor | Director, Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety (CRIFS) | Graduate Coordinator, Food Safety & Quality Assurance Program | Food Science | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Use of genomics and bacteriophages to control the growth of foodborne pathogens, and to develop rapid tests to detect foodborne and waterborne pathogens with an emphasis on Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella spp, and Listeria monocytogenes, foodborne viruses, and foodborne toxins.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/lawrence-goodridge
Thomas Graham
Assistant Professor | PhytoGro Research Chair in Controlled Environment Systems | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: All things Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) including – Medicinal crop production, food insecurity in urban and northern/remote communities, water treatment technologies, bioregenerative life-support for human space exploration; resource recovery and recycling in vertical farming systems, CEA crop diversification, plant-environment interactions.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ses/people/thomas-graham
Lauren Grant
Assistant Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Social and environmental determinants of One Health in animal and human populations; Foodborne diseases; Translational animal diseases; Health equity; Healthcare utilization
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/lauren-grant/
Amy Greer
Associate Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Introduction, spread, dynamics, and control of infectious diseases in populations; examining the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public and veterinary health.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/amy-greer/
Ryan Gregory
Professor and Department Chair | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Genome evolution, DNA quantification methodology, biological diversity, multi-level selection theory, integrative genomics.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/gregory
Marc Habash
Associate Professor | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Water quality, microbial source tracking, waterborne pathogens, microbial biofilms, ecosystem science and biodiversity, plant and environmental health.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ses/people/marc-habash
Jess Haines
Associate Professor | Family Relations & Applied Nutrition | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Child and family health, dietary intake, screen time, sleep, community and family-level behaviour change intervention.
Faculty profile: family.uoguelph.ca/people/jess-haines
Guelph Family Health Study: uelphfamilyhealthstudy.com
Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Associate Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Genomics, bioinformatics, environmental DNA (eDNA), phylogenetics, ecological assessment, biodiversity, species identification, microbiome, DNA barcoding.
Faculty profile: https://hajibabaeilab.com/people/
Andrew Hamilton-Wright
Associate Professor | Computer Science | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Decision support, association mining, machine learning, disease characterization, biological signals, decision confidence, visualization, high-risk decision making, decision exploration.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/computing/people/andrew-hamilton-wright
Bob Hanner
Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Molecular biodiversity, molecular ecology, applied biomonitoring using environmental DNA (eDNA), invasive alien species, species-at-risk, animal and plant health, and food fraud.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/hanner
Spencer Henson
Professor | Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Economic and social impacts of food-borne disease, especially in developing countries; Economics of food safety; Evaluation of food safety and animal health capacity-building, especially in developing countries; food safety and the informal sector.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/fare/bios/f_henson.html
Joanne Hewson
Associate Professor | Associate Dean, Students & Academic | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Bovine and equine respiratory disorders, communication skills in veterinary medicine, clinical teaching of veterinary medicine and performance assessment, curriculum design and mapping, veterinary community outreach.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/joanne-hewson/
Andreas Heyland
Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Environmental monitoring in aquatic ecosystems including phytoplankton and zooplankton high-throughput monitoring strategies. Nutrient release from agriculture and aquaculture and its impact on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Harmful algal bloom analysis and mitigation strategies. Next generation water treatment technologies using photosynthetic algae.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/heyland
Carmen Jacqueline Ho
Assistant Professor | Political Science | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research Interests: Welfare state, social policies, bureaucratic politics, health politics and policy, maternal and child nutrition.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/carmen-jacqueline-ho
Graham Holloway
Associate Professor | Human Health and Nutritional Sciences | Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies | College of Biological Science
Research interests: My research focuses on understanding the regulation of mitochondrial bioenergetics (aerobic ATP production and ROS generation) in diverse tissues with the aim of identifying unique lifestyle interventions to optimize skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, adipose tissue, liver and brain biology. We apply this knowledge to the study of human performance and disease prevention, with a particular focus on using nutrition and exercise to prevent age-associated sarcopenia, type 2 diabetes, heart failure and diabetic cardiomyopathy.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/hhns/people/dr-graham-holloway
Mervyn Horgan
Associate Professor | Sociology Graduate Program Coordinator | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Cities; Public Spaces; Social Theory; Social Interaction; Pet-facilitated Interaction; Housing; Solidarity; Stigmatization; Sociability
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/mervyn-horgan-0
Sally Humphries
Professor Emerita | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Sustainable rural livelihoods; agroecology and small farmer engagement; collaborative evaluation of impacts from participatory research and plant breeding in Honduras; collaborative research on gender equity and youth programming in rural areas of Honduras.
Faculty profile: experts.uoguelph.ca/sally-humphries
One Health Faculty Research Summary for Dr. Sally Humphries: Rural Empowerment
Implementing sustainable agricultural practices is particularly important for improving food security and farmer livelihoods in the rural Honduran hillsides. Nearly 30 years of a participatory research program, initiated by Dr. Sally Humphries, has resulted in farmers learning how to maximize the productivity of their land and improve soil health, while it has also enriched gender equality by empowering women and youth to be involved in decision-making processes. True to the One Health approach, this one-of-a-kind research program has been driven by Honduran farmers, agronomists, and scientists, in a way that has mutually benefitted them all.
2022. Authored by Carrie McMullen, Collaborative Specialization in One Health
Brian Husband
Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Investigation of biodiversity science, conservation, and ecological sustainability of food production, through studies of the ecology, genetics, and reproductive biology of wild and domesticated plant populations.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/husband
Kris Inwood
Professor | Economics and Finance | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: Economic history & economic development. Applications: long-term change, origins of health inequality and physical well-being, aboriginal demography, industrialization.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/kris-inwood
Fiona James
Associate Professor | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Neurological disorders, comparative epilepsy, EEG, veterinary neurology.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/fiona-james/
Claire Jardine
Associate Professor | Regional Director of CWHC ON/NU | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Wildlife and ecosystem health, ecology of diseases in wild animal populations, rodent and vector borne diseases.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/claire-jardine/
Candace Johnson
Professor | Political Science | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Maternal health, reproductive rights, women and gender and politics, human rights and justice, Latin America.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/candace-johnson
Craig Johnson
Professor | Political Science | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Environmental governance, climate change, urbanization, poverty, renewable energy, Asia, Latin America.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/craig-johnson
Andria Jones
Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Epidemiology of mental health and resilience in the veterinary and agricultural sectors, with a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) research approach.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/andria-jones/
Nina Jones
Professor | Canada Research Chair | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Cell signaling events in mammalian development and disease including cancer, kidney disease and neurological disorders.
Faculty profile: https://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-nina-jones
Vinay Kanetkar
Associate Professor | Graduate Coordinator | Marketing and Consumer Studies | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Market response models, forecasting, market research, conjoint analysis, marketing channels and pricing, managing and measuring price, responsiveness, marketing and operations, management interface.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/research-topics/econometrics
Niel Karrow
Professor | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: My research interests focus on innate immunoregulation, immunotoxicology and immunogenetics. This includes identifying genetic markers associated with inflammatory diseases, assessing the effects of maternal inflammatory stress on the developing fetal neuroendocrine-immune system, assessing efficacy of immunoceuticals, and characterising the immunotoxicity of microbial toxins. I believe that diversity and inclusion in the classroom and laboratory foster creativity and global understanding. Thus, I am committed to providing an engaging learning environment that promotes these ideals, where all students are provided equal opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, language, abilities/disabilities, socioeconomic status, or country of origin.
Faculty profile: animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/abscpeople/nkarrow
Satsuki Kawano
Professor | One Health Collaborative Specialization Faculty | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Disability, well-being, mind-body integration, identity and personhood, ritual and performance, space and place, cross-cultural perspectives on human development, aging, and life course, and accommodations for students with learning and developmental disabilities in Japanese schools.
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/satsuki-kawano
David Kelton
Professor Emeritus | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Control of infectious and metabolic diseases of dairy cattle, especially Johne’s Disease, bovine mastitis and bovine lameness, and the prudent use of antibiotics in cattle as part of an overall strategy to decrease the risk of AMR.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/david-kelton
Thomas Koch
Associate Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Stem cell and tissue engineering-based therapies, joint cartilage, joint homeostasis, regenerative medicine, translation of novel therapies to human medicine.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/thomas-g-koch/
Edward Koning
Associate Professor | Political Science | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: The politics of immigration, specifically in North West Europe and North America; the politics of immigrants’ social rights and the role of populist anti-immigrant parties; social policy; institutionalism.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/edward-koning
Jonathan LaMarre
Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: The biology of small RNAs and their associated pathways in reproduction, neurobiology and cancer in multiple species. RNAs as biomarkers of fertility and development.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Jonathan-LaMarre
Gisèle LaPointe
Professor | NSERC/Dairy Farmers of Ontario Dairy Alliance | Food Science | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Dairy microbiology from production through processing and digestion. How feed, food, foodborne pathogens and probiotics interact and influence the composition and activity of the gut microbiota leading to potential health benefits or health risks.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/gisèle-lapointe
Anna T. Lawniczak
Professor | Mathematics and Statistics | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Mathematical modelling, simulation, & analysis of dynamics of complex natural, engineering & social systems, individually based simulation models, multi-agent-based simulations, cognitive agents, statistical analysis of simulation data, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, spread of epidemics and vaccination strategies.
Faculty profile: mathstat.uoguelph.ca/people/lawniczak
Stephen LeBlanc
Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Promotion of health, fertility, and productivity in dairy cattle, antimicrobial stewardship in dairy farming and veterinary practice, evidence-based veterinary medicine, and applied epidemiology.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/stephen-leblanc/
Leah Levac
Associate Professor | Political Science | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: intersectionality and public participation, northern wellbeing, local politics, critical community-engaged scholarship.
Faculty Profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/leah-levac
Jana Levison
Associate Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Agricultural impacts on groundwater quality and quantity, impacts of climate change on hydrological systems, groundwater flow and contaminant transport in fractured geologic media, source water protection for Indigenous and rural communities.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/engineering/content/faculty/jana-levison
One Health Faculty Interview with Dr. Jana Levison: Groundwater Health
Although harder to see than the surface water, like lakes and streams, that Canadians are used to, groundwater is an important source of water for consumption in rural areas, farming, and industrial uses. Dr. Jana Levison, an associate professor in water resources engineering, is concerned with the quality and quantity of groundwater and conducts research on the impacts of agriculture and climate change.
Monitoring groundwater provides important information for human health, especially for people who use well water that pulls directly from groundwater. With no municipal treatment of water, households can unknowingly consume contaminated water. Excess nutrients and pollutants in groundwater can also impact delicate ecosystems that rely on groundwater fed water sources and make animals that drink the water sick.
“I focus on groundwater but thinking about the entire water cycle is very important because groundwater flows along and then eventually discharges to streams and tributaries or on a deeper scale, directly into the Great Lakes… it’s really all connected.”
Also important is the monitoring of groundwater quantity; as climate change continues and population growth puts pressure on our natural resources, water scarcity may become a more critical issue for people, animals, and ecosystems that rely on our current abundance of natural water sources.
For Dr. Levison, using a One Health approach helps to put together the larger picture of what’s going on with our groundwater.
“Working at those intersections of different disciplines really helps with problem solving and coming up with unique approaches.”
Linking the technical side of her research to other disciplines helps to get a better view on how it impacts areas outside her specialty and pushes her to think outside the box. A memorable example for Dr. Levison was working out how to scale water quantity data down for collaboration on a project about salamander population modelling. Through partnerships with biologists, ecologists, and veterinarians she’s been a part of several multidisciplinary projects that highlight how important groundwater is to our environment, our food, and our health.
Many thanks to Dr. Levison for her time. For more information about Dr. Levison or her titles and affiliations please see the pages linked below.
Jana Levison, PhD, PEng (she/her)
Doody Family Chair for Women in Engineering
Associate Professor, Water Resources Engineering
Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute
School of Engineering
University of Guelph
2022. Authored by Laura Zehr, Collaborative Specialization in One Health
Diana Lewis
Assistant Professor | Geography, Environment & Geomatics | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: fostering a wider understanding of Indigenous worldviews, and how Indigenous worldviews must inform environmental decisions, specifically as Indigenous peoples are impacted by resource or industrial development.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/lewis-diana
Julang Li
Professor | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Fertility and ovarian function, bioactive peptide production, antibiotic alternatives; physiology and mechanisms of ovarian follicular development.
Faculty profile: animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/abscpeople/jli
Loong-Tak Lim
Professor | Food Science | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Food packaging, electrospinning/electrospraying, encapsulation, biopolymer film/coating, coffee technology, injection moulding, and package prototyping.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/loong-tak-lim
Mark Lipton
Professor | English and Theatre Studies | College of Arts
Research interests: Science communication, communication and media, art/sci collaborations, media education, health and wellness.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/sets/people/mark-lipton
Philip A. Loring
Associate Professor | Arrell Chair in Food, Policy and Society | Geography, Environment and Geomatics | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Food systems and security, community ecology, natural resource conflict, human ecology, and well-being.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/loring-philip
Ray Lu
Associate Professor | Graduate Studies Coordinator | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Unfolded Protein Response and human diseases: cellular proteins involved in animal stress responses, the role of the Unfolded Protein Response in animal development, cell differentiation, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, cancer and viral infection; Molecular mechanisms of aging, using planarians as aging models; gene-knockout mice; virus-cell interaction.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-ray-lu
Brittany Luby
Associate Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: Anishinaabe history, Crown-Indigenous relations, industrialization of the subarctic, food sovereignty, community wellbeing, oral research methodologies, land-based learning.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/brittany-luby
Lewis Lukens
Professor | Department of Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Agricultural genetics, agricultural genomics, crop quality and yield improvement, plant breeding, genetics of adaptation, genetic solutions to address agriculture’s environmental impact
Key words: Food safety, food security
Faculty profile: https://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/llukens
David Ma
Professor | Human Health and Nutritional Sciences | College of Biological Science
Research interests: The influence of dietary fats on health and prevention of chronic disease throughout the lifecycle. In particular, bioactive fatty acids and their role in metabolism, breast cancer, brain health and childhood obesity prevention. As Director of the Guelph Family Health Study, we are interested in determinants of health, community engaged research and knowledge translation. As the Co-lead and PI of the SMART Training platform, we are focused on training the next generation in implementation science in healthy and smart cities.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/hhns/people/dr-david-wl-ma
Guelph Family Health Study: guelphfamilyhealthstudy.com
SMART training platform: https://smart-training.ca/
Pavneesh Madan
Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Investigating the factors influencing early embryo arrest, mortality, and survival in embryos produced by reproductive biotechnologies; unravelling the roles of epigenetic and signal transduction pathways in the precise control of early embryo development; embryonic health, and enhancing overall reproductive success.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/pavneesh-madan
Ferdinando Manna
Assistant Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: As a hydrogeologist, my research focuses on the analysis and assessment of groundwater recharge, including the study of the hydrological processes occurring across the critical zone from the atmosphere to the water table (precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration and flow through the unsaturated zone) in heterogeneous aquifers. My approach includes coupling field research -physical and chemical observations- and numerical modelling at different temporal and spatial scales.
Faculty profile: https://engineering.uoguelph.ca/people/ferdinando-manna-phd
Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute: https://g360group.org/our-team/principal-investigators/ferdinando-manna/
Ed McBean
Professor | Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Water supply security, municipal infrastructure integrity, risk assessment and management, statistical analyses of environmental data, solid waste management and landfill design.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/engineering/content/faculty/ed-mcbean
David McCarthy
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Waterborne Pathogens: Surveillance, Prediction and Mitigation | School of Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: David McCarthy is an environmental engineer focusing on the biosurveillance of pathogens in urban water systems and the development of methodologies to monitor and manage these to protect human health. His research spans health-related water microbiology, risk assessments, pathogen fate and transport, urban hydrology, stormwater management, green water treatment technologies, and novel IoT devices for the monitoring and sampling of water quality. David’s work has significantly impacted industry practices, including the development of novel stormwater treatment systems and real-time monitoring and control technologies for urban water systems.
Faculty Profile: https://ses.uoguelph.ca/people/david-mccarthy
Marta McCarthy
Associate Professor | Fine Art and Music | College of Arts
Research interests: Choral music and social justice, Canadian choral mosaic, gesture as a unique representation of musical thought, choral rehearsing as “giving voice”, music and health.
Faculty Profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/sofam/people/marta-mccarthy
Stuart McCook
Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: History of science, environmental history, Latin America, world history, international development, comparative history, coffee crop diseases, global history, and the history of tropical agriculture.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/stuart-mccook
Mary Ruth McDonald
Professor | Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Biology and management of crops, plant nutrition, biological control of plant pathogens, disease forecasting and management, management of nematodes on vegetable crops, Fusarium, and management of onion maggot, carrot rust fly and carrot weevil.
Faculty profiles: plant.uoguelph.ca/mrmcdona
Thomas McIlwraith
Associate Professor | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Indigenous peoples, western Canada, ethnography, land use, hunting, territoriality, food and resource harvesting practices, contemporary Indigenous land use in the context of mining and logging.
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/thomas-tad-mcilwraith
C. Meghan McMurtry
Associate Professor | Psychology | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Child health (pediatric) psychology, pediatric acute and chronic pain, needle fear, procedural pain and fear, parent-child interactions and family influences on children’s pain.
Faculty profile: https://pphc.uoguelph.ca/
Jennifer McWhirter
Associate Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Health and risk communication, public health competencies, generative AI and public health, built environment and public health, climate change and health, landscape design/architecture and health, design thinking, public health systems.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/jennifer-mcwhirter/
Faisal Moola
Associate Professor | Geography, Environment and Geomatics | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Forest conservation and management, Ecology and ethnoecology of plants, Environmental policy Indigenous-led conservation.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/moola-faisal
Heather Murphy
Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair in One Health | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: 1. Microbial quality of water and public health: a. The impact of septic systems and agricultural activity on groundwater, b. Surface water quality and recreation, c. Burden of waterborne disease; 2. Water and sanitation challenges in resource-limited settings, 3. Interdisciplinary One Health approaches to reduce enteric disease transmission.
Faculty profile: www.whamlab.org
Susan Nance
Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: Animal history, environmental history, live performance and communication, entertainment and information industries, history of the North American West.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/history/people/susan-nance
Erin Nelson
Assistant Professor | Sociology & Anthropology | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research Interests: Sustainable food systems, agroecology, community development, community-engaged scholarship, Latin America.
Faculty Profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/erin-nelson
Amy Newman
Associate Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: The long-term effects of environmental stress on the development, behaviour, physiology and fitness of wildlife; how environmental change and landscape modification can impact stress responses in animals ranging from birds to butterflies to small mammals, and how these insights may apply to understanding stress and human health.
Faculty Profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/newman
Ryan Norris
Associate Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Conservation, habitat loss, climate change, endangered and threatened species, protected areas, reintroduction, migration, movement, dispersal, birds, butterflies, and salamanders.
Website: norrislab.ca
Kieran O’Doherty
Professor | Psychology | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Social and ethical aspects of science & technology (human microbiome; genetics/genomics; biobanks); health data governance; participatory health governance; public engagement; public deliberation; bioethics; critical health psychology.
Faculty profile: https://dsp.uoguelph.ca
Andrew Papadopoulos
Professor | Coordinator, Master of Public Health Program | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Environmental public health policy and practice, healthy public policy, public health interventions, built environment and impacts on human health, food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours, post-secondary student mental health, public health communication, post-secondary pedagogy, curriculum development, and program administration.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/andrew-papadopoulos/
Kate Parizeau
Associate Professor | Geography, Environment and Geomatics | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Using waste management to understand social organization and human exchanges with the environment; informality, urban inequality, feminist geography and social difference; waste management systems and planning; environmental health; scholarship of teaching and learning.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/parizeau-kate
Beth Parker
Professor | NSERC Industrial Research Chair | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
As a contaminant hydrogeologist, I specialize in high-resolution field methods for groundwater system characterization. I use innovative characterization methods to improve monitoring system design, contaminant detection, and prediction of transport mechanisms in complex flow systems including fractured rock. Through long-standing collaborations with the City of Guelph and neighboring communities, novel datasets are used to enhance water supply management decisions.
UoG SOE: https://www.uoguelph.ca/engineering/people/beth-parker
Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute: https://g360group.org/our-team/principal-investigators/beth-parker/
University Consortium: https://theuniversityconsortium.org/pis/
Jane Parmley
Associate Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research Interests: One Health, Ecohealth, surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, wildlife health, zoonoses.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/facult
David Pearl
Associate Professor | Graduate Coordinator | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Multi-level statistical modelling, analysis of spatial and molecular data, E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Campylobacter and antimicrobial-resistant organisms in humans, cattle, dogs, poultry, swine, and wildlife.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/David-Pearl
Andrew Peregrine
Associate Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Epidemiology and impact of parasitic infections. Sustainable control of gastrointestinal parasites of sheep. Emerging zoonotic parasite infections of companion animals.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/andrew-s-peregrine/
Jim Petrik
Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Female reproductive biology and ovarian cancer, developing therapeutics for the treatment of late-stage ovarian cancer, focusing on anti-angiogenic therapies for inhibiting new growth of blood vessels supplying the tumours.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/james-petrik/
Michèle Preyde
Professor | Family Relations and Applied Nutrition | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Practitioner-researcher collaboration, biopsychosocial health and mental health, children and youth accessing intensive mental health services, and the psychosocial impacts of illness on vulnerable populations.
Faculty profile: family.uoguelph.ca/people/michèle-preyde
Ryan Prosser
Associate Professor | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Environmental toxicology, the fate of chemicals in the environment, toxicological risk assessment, and freshwater and marine mollusk biology.
Faculty Profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/ryan-prosser
Website: wisdomofthemoose.com
Ricardo Ramirez
Adjunct Professor | Environmental Design and Rural Development | Ontario Agricultural College, and Independent Researcher and Evaluator
Research interests: Evaluation, research and mentoring; communication for development: planning & capacity development; knowledge management for rural development & agriculture: capacity development and action research; participatory planning and evaluation approaches; multi-stakeholder and collaborative approaches for natural resource management.
Co-principal investigator: https://evaluationandcommunicationinpractice.net/
Core team member: https://www.desiraliftcommunity.org/
David Renaud
Assistant Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Risk factors associated with mortality at veal operations, developing strategies to reduce antimicrobial use in the veal sector, evaluating the utility of navel disinfection in dairy calves, and identifying new technologies to improve calf health and welfare.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/David-Renaud
Davar Rezania
Associate Professor | Department Chair | Management | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Project management, accountability, team leadership, sustainable economics, sustainable agriculture, biomimicry.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/davar-rezania
Eduardo de Souza Ribeiro
Associate Professor | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Interplay between animal health, nutrition, and reproduction and their impact on livestock production efficiency and sustainability.
Faculty profile: animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/abscpeople/eribeiro
Nicole Ricker
Assistant Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Application of big data analysis techniques to disease informatics, microbial sequencing data in precision agriculture applications, genomics and metagenomics, antimicrobial resistance, the role of the microbiome in disease progression/immune development, One Health approaches to AMR and antibiotic alternatives.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/nicole-ricker/
Darren Robinson
Professor | Weed Management Specialist | Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Weed management in vegetable crops, the effects of cultural practises and soil fertility on crop-weed competition and the effect of herbicide residues on the production of vegetables.
Faculty profile: plant.uoguelph.ca/drobinso
Silvia Sarapura
Assistant Professor | Environmental Design and Rural Development | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Gender planning in agri-food systems, gender transformative change, farmer-led research, indigenous food systems, integrated seed systems, international research for development, gender and intersectionality in agri-food systems.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/sedrd/people/silvia-sarapura
Praveen Saxena
Professor | Director, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation | Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College
Research institute: Regulatory signals that modulate plant development and stress mitigation; development of in vitro technologies for propagation and conservation of plant genetic resources including endangered, medicinal, ornamental, and food crops for horticultural industries.
Faculty profile: plant.uoguelph.ca/psaxena
Flavio Schenkel
Professor | CGIL Director | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Genetics and genomics in livestock breeding; using genomic information to enhance genetic evaluation and genomic selection.
Faculty profile: animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/abscpeople/schenkel
Marcel Schlaf
Professor | Chemistry | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Chemical synthesis, catalysis, biomass conversion, sustainable chemistry & metallurgy, synergistic co-processing & recycling.
Profile: schlaflab.uoguelph.ca/
Rebecca Shapiro
Assistant Professor | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Genomic technologies (CRISPR-Cas9, high-throughput functional genomic analysis), fungal pathogenesis (microbial fungal pathogens and the mechanisms by which they cause disease), antifungal drug resistance.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-rebecca-shapiro
Shayan Sharif
Professor | Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Immunology of avian influenza virus infection, vaccine development against low pathogenicity and highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, innovation in chicken gut microbiota manipulation for control of enteric zoonotic pathogens
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/shayan-sharif/
Paul Sibley
Professor | Director, School of Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Aquatic and sediment toxicology, ecological risk assessment, benthic invertebrate and zooplankton community ecology, aquatic-terrestrial interactions, disturbance ecology.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/paul-sibley
Jennifer Silver
Professor | Geography, Environment and Geomatics | College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Fisheries, aquaculture, and coastal communities; international ocean governance; indigenous fishing rights; media and technology in environmental governance.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/silver-jennifer
Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg
Assistant Professor | CARE-AI affiliate | Philosophy | College of Arts
Research interests: Bioethics, AI ethics, neuroethics, business ethics; virtue theory, philosophy of cognitive science, experimental philosophy; mHealth, digital phenotyping, computational psychiatry, computational social science.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/people/joshua-august-gus-skorburg
Dave Snow
Associate Professor | Political Science | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Health policy; naturopathic medicine; federalism; the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/dave-snow
Simon Somogyi
Professor | Arrell Chair in the Business of Food | Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests: Agri-food value chain analysis & management, food consumer behaviour.
Faculty profile: www.uoguelph.ca/lang/people/simon-somogyi
Kelsey Spence
Assistant Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Emerging diseases, biosecurity, outbreak preparedness, risk perceptions and health behaviours, risk mitigation strategies, and knowledge translation.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Kelsey-Spence
John Srbely
Associate Professor | Human Health and Nutritional Sciences | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Clinical biomechanics and neurophysiology; chronic pain and joint function associated with aging and osteoarthritis, myofascial pain and fibromyalgia; the pathophysiologic mechanisms of myofascial trigger points; treatment of pain and joint/muscle dysfunction in chronic musculoskeletal disease.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/hhns/people/dr-john-srbely
Deb Stacey
Associate Professor | Informatics Theme Lead, GBADs | Computer Science | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Development, use and analysis of knowledge engineering and machine intelligence techniques (particularly ontologies), data-driven ontology evaluation and ontology development for simulation parameters.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/computing/people/deborah-stacey
Anna Stanley
Associate Professor | Geography, Environment, and Geomatics | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Indigenous environmental justice, environmental policy, resource governance and settler colonialism, mineral and uranium mining, taxation, and governance, Indigenous sovereignty, and political economies of settler colonialism, politics of risk, toxic exposure, environmental harm.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/stanley-anna
Travis Steffens
Assistant Professor | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: I leverage conservation biogeography, spatial ecology, and One Health approaches to understand how lemurs interact with and respond to human-caused disturbance. I am also interested in how humans are impacted by applied conservation measures targeting lemurs and their habitats. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the risk factors associated with zoonotic/anthroponotic transmission among humans and their domestic animals, wildlife, and their shared environment.
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/travis-steffens
Dirk Steinke
Adjunct Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Biodiversity research, conservation genetics, community ecology, farmland diversity, plant-pollinator interactions, multi-species population genetics, joint species distribution modelling.
Faculty profile: ecologicalgenomics.ca
Deborah Stienstra
Professor | Director, Live Work Well Research Centre | Jarislowsky Chair, Families and Work | Political Science | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: The intersections of disabilities, gender, childhood, and Indigenousness; disability rights, disability policy, women and gender and politics, gender, and work.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/deborah-stienstra
Live Work Well Research Centre: liveworkwell.ca/
Hannah Tait Neufeld
Adjunct Professor | Family Relations and Applied Human Nutrition | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: Indigenous health, food environments, community-based participatory research, Indigenous food systems, maternal and child health, global health, infant and young child feeding, nutrition policy, and chronic disease prevention.
Faculty profile: family.uoguelph.ca/people/hannah-tait-neufeld
Graham Taylor
Professor | Research Director, Vector Institute | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: My research spans a number of topics in deep learning. I am interested in open problems such as how to effectively learn with less labelled data, and how to build human-centred AI systems. I am interested in methodologies such as generative modelling, graph representation learning and sequential decision making. I also pursue applied projects that leverage computer vision to mitigate biodiversity loss.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/engineering/content/faculty/graham-w-taylor
Eranga Ukwatta
Associate Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Machine learning for medical imaging, deep learning, medical image analysis, image segmentation and registration, myocardial tissue characterization, analysis of digital histopathology images, and computational modelling of the heart.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/engineering/people/eranga-ukwatta-phd-peng
Siavash Vahidi
Assistant Professor | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Structural biology and biochemistry, role of protein degradation in antimicrobial resistance and cancer, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-siavash-vahidi
Glen Van Der Kraak
Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Multifactorial regulation of ovarian function in teleosts, evaluation of reproductive fitness in fish, endocrine disruption in fish and amphibians.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/vanderkraak
Laura Van Eerd
Professor | Research Program Director, Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance | Co-Executive Director, Soils at Guelph | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Sustainable soil management, agriculture, cover crops, nitrogen biogeochemical cycling, soil health.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/laura-l-van-eerd
Lauren Van Patter
Assistant Professor | Kim & Stu Lang Professor in Community & Shelter Medicine | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: animal studies, ‘living well’ in multispecies communities, multispecies justice, multispecies health equity, veterinary humanities & social sciences, human-animal bond, companion animals, environmental humanities.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/lauren-van-patter
Terry Van Raay
Associate Professor | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: signalling processes involved in disease and development, the Wnt signalling pathway, negative feedback regulators of Wnt signalling; Nkd1 and Axin2.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-terry-van-raay
Jeji Varghese
Associate Professor | Sociology and Anthropology | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: As a critical community engaged scholar and environmental sociologist, her research interests include Indigenous and Western Science knowledge systems engagement in land/water governance/stewardship/conservation, just climate transitions, socio-ecological sustainability, and a scholarship of teaching and learning focused on community engaged learning and land based pedagogies.
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/jeji-varghese
Matthew Vickaryous
Associate Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Using geckos and other organisms to study mechanisms of wound healing, regeneration, and development, scar-free cutaneous wound healing, neurogenesis, spinal cord regeneration, and cardiac repair.
Faculty profiles: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Matthew-K-Vickaryous
Scott Walsh
Adjunct Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Oncolytic viruses and viral vectored vaccines. T cell biology, autoimmunity, and cancer immunotherapy.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/scott-walsh
Keith Warriner
Professor | Food Science | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: The significance of the dormant state in pathogens and how this contributes to temporal antibiotic resistance along with survival in the environment. Other research focuses on developing interventions to inactivate pathogens associated with fresh produce and meat. I am also on the Egg Farmers of Ontario SE Advisory board, current Editor-in-Chief of Food Microbiology journal and part of the Joint Expert Microbiology Risk Assessment of Codex Alimentarious.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/keith-warriner
Quinn Webber
Assistant Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Behavioural and spatial ecology: social behaviour, habitat selection and parasitism in individual wild animals within a One Health framework. Implementing classic ecological theory (optimal foraging theory) with contemporary methods (social network analysis and habitat selection analyses) to test multiple competing hypotheses.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/node/1828
Quinn’s Website: qwebber.weebly.com
Scott Weese
Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Bacterial infections in animals and humans, methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections, Clostridium difficile, antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, infection control.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Scott-Weese
Melanie Wills
Director, G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Lyme disease, tick-borne infections, bacterial pathogenesis, complex and chronic illness, host defences.
Faculty profile: gmagnottaresearch.com/the-team
Boyer Winters
Professor | Psychology | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Research interests: The neurobiology of cognition, memory acquisition, consolidation, reconsolidation, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/psychology/users/boyer-winters
Geoffrey Wood
Associate Professor | Co-Director, Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Pathology of neoplasia, multi-species comparative cancer genetics, biomarkers of cancer in dogs, mouse models of human cancer, cancer resistance in large, long-lived animals.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/geoffrey-wood/
Paul Woods
Professor | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Oncology and infectious disease.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/j-paul-woods/
Sarah Wootton
Associate Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Gene therapy, vectored immunoprophylaxis (VIP), oncolytic virotherapy, viral vectored vaccines, viral pathogenesis.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/sarah-wootton/
Sam Workenhe
Assistant Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Cancer and immunotherapy; viruses of veterinary importance; vaccines.
Faculty profile: https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/samuel-workenhe/
Sunghwan Yi
Professor | Marketing and Consumer Studies | Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
Research interests:
- Automatic determinants of addictive, impulsive and compulsive consumer behaviour (e.g., excessive buying, gambling).
- Factors contributing to successful self-control versus self-control failure in excessive consumption.
- Affective motives of engaging in excessive consumption behaviour: Coping with aversive self-related emotions.
- The use of choice architecture (nudging) and other micro-environmental changes to induce the choice of fruits, vegetables and legume-rich food in institutional food contexts.
- Optimization of mixed dish offerings with partially substituting resource-intensive animal protein with plant-based ingredients (esp. legume): synergy among healthiness, environmental sustainability and sensory pleasure.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/sunghwan-yi
Richard G. Zytner
Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Soil remediation technology with emphasis on SVE and bioventing, contaminant transport parameters, treatment of vegetable and fruit wash water and residues.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/engineering/content/faculty/richard-g-zytner
Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows
Dasiel Obregon
Postdoctoral Fellow | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology; metabarcoding, metagenomics and microbiome analysis; epidemiology, veterinary microbiology and parasitology, ecoepidemiology of vector-borne pathogens, host-microbiome-pathogen interactions.
Sugandha Raj
Postdoctoral Fellow | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Zoonotic avian diseases in the contexts of transmission, immune mechanisms, disease modelling and surveillance.
Christina Rochus
Postdoctoral Fellow | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: I am a postdoctoral researcher working in Christine Baes’ group on the Resilient Dairy Genome Project. My research interests include working with genomic data to study genetic diversity and adaptation in domestic and wild animals.
Last updated: 3/7/2024
