Contents
- Tara Abraham
- Sarah Alderman
- Madhur Anand
- Emmanuelle Arnaud
- Andrew Bailey
- Shane Bateman
- Cathy Bauman
- Olaf Berke
- Theresa Bernardo
- Elizabeth Boulding
- Samantha Brennan
- Byram Bridle
- Ryan Briggs
- Ruben Burga
- Jamie Burr
- Wayne Caldwell
- David A. Calvert
- Catherine Carstairs
- Chris Choi
- Katie Clow
- Brenda Coomber
- Marc Coppolino
- Karl Cottenie
- Georgina Cox
- Sherri Cox
- Rozita Dara
- Don Dedrick
- Giannina Descalzi
- Cate Dewey
- Tirtha Dhar
- Todd Duffield
- Lisa Duizer
- Kari Dunfield
- Animesh Dutta
- Ming Z. Fan
- Laura Favetta
- Elizabeth Finnis
- Lianne Foti
- Bob Friendship
- Karine Gagné
- Jennifer Geddes-McAlister
- Daniel Gillis
- Todd Gillis
- Brandon Gilroyed
- Maya Goldenberg
- Rosario Gómez
- Minglun Gong
- Lawrence Goodridge
- Thomas Graham
- Lauren Grant
- Amy Greer
- Ryan Gregory
- Marc Habash
- Jess Haines
- Andrew Hamilton-Wright
- Bob Hanner
- Spencer Henson
- Joanne Hewson
- Andreas Heyland
- Carmen Jacqueline Ho
- Graham Holloway
- Mervyn Horgan
- Karen Houle
- Sally Humphries
- Brian Husband
- Kris Inwood
- Fiona James
- Claire Jardine
- Candace Johnson
- Craig Johnson
- Vinay Kanetkar
- Niel Karrow
- Satsuki Kawano
- David Kelton
- Gord Kirby
- Thomas Koch
- Edward Koning
- Scott Krayenhoff
- Jonathan LaMarre
- Gisele LaPointe
- Anna T. Lawniczak
- Stephen LeBlanc
- Leah Levac
- Jana Levison
- Julang Li
- Loong-Tak Lim
- Mark Lipton
- Kerry Lissemore
- Philip A. Loring
- Ray Lu
- Brittany Luby
- David Ma
- Ed McBean
- Marta McCarthy
- Stuart McCook
- Mary Ruth McDonald
- Thomas McIlwraith
- Meghan C. McMurtry
- Faisal Moola
- Heather Murphy
- Susan Nance
- Erin Nelson
- Amy Newman
- Ryan Norris
- Kieran O’Doherty
- Gopinadhan Paliyath
- Andrew Papadopoulos
- Kate Parizeau
- Beth Parker
- Jane Parmley
- David Pearl
- Andrew Peregrine
- Jim Petrik
- Michèle Preyde
- David Renaud
- Davar Rezania
- Eduardo de Souza Ribeiro
- Nicole Ricker
- Darren Robinson
- Silvia Sarapura
- Praveen Saxena
- Flavio Schenkel
- Marcel Schlaf
- Rebecca Shapiro
- Shayan Sharif
- Paul Sibley
- Jennifer Silver
- Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg
- Dave Snow
- Simon Somogyi
- Leanne Son Hing
- Kelsey Spence
- John Srbely
- Deb Stacey
- Anna Stanley
- Travis Steffens
- Dirk Steinke
- Deborah Stienstra
- Hannah Tait Neufeld
- Graham Taylor
- Naresh Thevathasan
- Eranga Ukwatta
- Siavash Vahidi
- Glen Van Der Kraak
- Laura Van Eerd
- Lauren Van Patter
- Terry Van Raay
- Jeji Varghese
- Matthew Vickaryous
- Keith Warriner
- Scott Weese
- Melanie Wills
- Boyer Winters
- Geoffrey Wood
- Paul Woods
- Sarah Wootton
- Sunghwan Yi
- Wei Zhang
- Richard G. Zytner
- Dasiel Obregon
- Christina Rochus
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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
Research interests: Global ecological change, sustainability science, forest ecology, ecological modelling, biodiversity, creative writing.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/madhur-anand
Emmanuelle Arnaud

Associate Professor | Environmental Sciences, and Assistant Dean (Graduate Programs) | 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 | Philosophy, and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) | 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: 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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/olaf-berke
Theresa Bernardo

Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Veterinary epidemiology, medical informatics, health informatics, information technology, public health informatics, educational technology.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Theresa-Bernardo
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 | Philosophy | Dean | 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
Ryan Briggs

Assistant Professor | Political Science | One Health Collaborative Specialization Faculty
Research interests: The political economy of poverty alleviation, international development, foreign aid, poverty, African politics.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/ryan-briggs
Ruben Burga

Assistant Professor | Management
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
David A. Calvert

Associate Professor | Computer Science | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Classification and modelling using artificial neural networks, agriculture, public health, visualizing pitch class sets for music, parallel patterns on GPUs.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/computing/people/david-calvert
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
Chris Choi

Professor and Interim Director | Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management
Research interests: Tourism management, sustainable tourism, destination management and marketing, tourism economics.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/hs-chris-choi
Katie Clow

Assistant Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College | Graduate Program Coordinator, One Health
Research interests: Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, disease ecology, epidemiology, surveillance, One Health pedagogy.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Katie-Clow
Brenda Coomber

Adjunct Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Cancer progression, companion animal cancer, translational medicine.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Brenda-Coomber
Marc Coppolino

Associate Professor and Department 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 and 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
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
Don Dedrick

Associate Professor | Philosophy & Psychology | Graduate Program Coordinator
Research interests: Colour perception and categorization, cognitive science and its foundations, culture and cognition, cognitive science and its foundations, 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
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Giannina-Descalzi
Cate Dewey

Director of the One Health Institute | Associate Vice President (Academic) | Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Prevention of PRRS transmission by early weaning, evaluation of PRRS vaccines, aspects of S.E.W.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Cate-Dewey
Tirtha Dhar

Associate Professor | Marketing and Consumer studies | Interim Chair
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 | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College | Chair
Research interests: Metabolic disease in dairy cows, impact of lonophores in dairy cattle, pain management of dairy cattle, management of disease.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/todd-duffield
Lisa Duizer

Associate Professor | Food Science | Department Chair
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 | Environmental Sciences | Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology of Agro-ecosystems | Co-Executive Director, Soils@Guelph
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

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
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Laura-Favetta
Elizabeth Finnis

Associate Professor | Sociology and Anthropology
Research interests: Smaller-scale farming, local food systems, agricultural and dietary transitions, local food systems, food sovereignty, political ecology, Canada, India, and Paraguay
Faculty profile: socioanthro.uoguelph.ca/people/elizabeth-finnis-0
Lianne Foti

Assistant Professor | Hospitality | Food and Tourism Management
Research interests: Consumer behaviour, ethical decision making, international marketing, social marketing.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/lianne-foti
Bob Friendship

Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Sow reproduction and longevity, on-farm control of Salmonella, antimicrobial resistance and presence of zoonotic pathogens on pig farms, nutritional factors of enteric diseases, epidemiology of swine diseases.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Robert-Friendship G60
Karine Gagné

Assistant Professor | Sociology and Anthropology
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

Assistant Professor | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Differential patterns of pathogenic regulation between microbial species; systems biology to elucidate microbial proteome dynamics and interactions; mechanistic characterization of pathogenic proteins; mass spectrometry-based proteomics for drug discovery and repurposing.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-jennifer-geddes-mcalister
Daniel Gillis

Associate Professor | Computer Science
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 | Interim Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies | 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

Associate Professor | Philosophy
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
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

Director, 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

Director, Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety (CRIFS) | Graduate Coordinator | Food Safety & Quality Assurance Program
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 | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College | PhytoGro Research Chair in Controlled Environment Systems
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: 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: 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 | AHN | Family Relations & Applied Nutrition
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
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 | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College | Associate Dean, Students & Academic
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/Joanne-Hewson
Andreas Heyland

Associate Professor | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Science
Research interests: Environmental monitoring in aquatic ecosystems including phytoplankton and zooplankton high-throughput monitoring strategies. Iodine & thyroid hormone signalling in marine ecosystems, functional genomics of larval development, metamorphosis and settlement in zooplankton, function and evolution of sensory signalling systems in selected marine invertebrate groups.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/heyland
Carmen Jacqueline Ho

Assistant Professor | Political Science
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 | 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. We focus on elucidating novel regulation of mitochondria to identify unique lifestyle interventions to optimize mitochondrial biology in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, adipose tissue, liver and the brain. 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
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
Karen Houle

Professor | Philosophy
Research interests: Plant ontology and plant ethics, “Post-Humanist” ethics, animal welfare, implications for practical lives of animals (human and non-human), the demarcation of human from non-human animals, the concept of “the animal” as a political or moral being, narrative short fiction and poetry as an affective dimension of knowledge-transfer and knowledge exchange in One Health complex scenarios.
Dr. Houle was one of the original three U of G faculty (with David Waltner-Toews, OVC, and Bruce Hunter, OVC) of the pan-Canadian research team called “COPEH-CAN” that takes ecosystem approaches to health. She worked with this research team for over a decade, making some crucial historical links to U of G and networks, including James Kay.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/karen-houle
Sally Humphries

Professor Emerita | Sociology and Anthropology
Research interests: Improving the livelihoods of Honduran hillside farmers through participatory research; farmer experimentation and and learning; Promoting local agriculture, livelihoods, and gender equality in Honduras.
Faculty profile: experts.uoguelph.ca/sally-humphries
Brian Husband

Professor and Associate Dean | Integrative Biology | College of Biological Sciences
Research interests: The ecology and genetics of small populations, causes and consequences of genome duplication, function and evolution of plant reproductive systems, ecological consequences of genetic diversity.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ib/husband
Kris Inwood

Professor | Economics and Finance
Professor | History
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/clinical-studies/faculty/Fiona-James
Claire Jardine

Associate Professor | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College | Regional Director of CWHC ON/NU
Research interests: Wildlife and ecosystem health, ecology of diseases in wild animal populations, rodent and vector borne diseases.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Claire-Jardine
Candace Johnson

Professor | Political Science
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
Research interests: Environmental governance, climate change, urbanization, poverty, renewable energy, Asia, Latin America.
Faculty profile: polisci.uoguelph.ca/people/craig-johnson
Vinay Kanetkar

Associate Professor | Marketing and Consumer Studies | Graduate Coordinator
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: Identifying genetic markers associated with ruminant inflammatory diseases (mastitis and Johne’s disease); The effects of maternal stress on genetic programming of the fetal neuroendocrine-immune system and nutritional intervention; promoting healthy neonatal gut development through the use of probiotics; Immunotoxicity of bacterial and fungal toxin mixtures.
Faculty profile: animalbiosciences.uoguelph.ca/abscpeople/nkarrow
Satsuki Kawano

Professor | Sociology and Anthropology | One Health Collaborative Specialization Faculty
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 | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College | Dairy Farmers of Ontario Chair in Dairy Cattle Health
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
Gord Kirby

Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Molecular diagnostics and early biomarkers of disease, molecular toxicology and diagnostics, regulation of expression of drug metabolizing enzymes, functional significance of altered expression of drug metabolizing enzymes during cellular injury.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Gordon-Kirby
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/biomedical-sciences/people/faculty/Thomas-G-Koch
Edward Koning

Associate Professor | Political Science
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
Scott Krayenhoff

Assistant Professor | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Urban heat islands, cooling hot cities/climate change adaptation, regional climate modelling and dynamics, downscaling, local climate effects of urban trees, pedestrian thermal comfort, urban meteorological model development, urban thermal anisotropy, climate impacts of photovoltaic arrays, canopy micrometeorology.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/ses/people/scott-krayenhoff
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
Gisele LaPointe

Professor | Food Science | Ontario Agricultural College | NSERC/Dairy Farmers of Ontario Industrial Research Chair in Dairy Microbiology
Research interests: Dairy microbiology from production through processing and digestion. How food, foodborne pathogens and probiotics interact and influence the composition and activity of the gut microbiota leading to potential health benefits.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/gisèle-lapointe
Anna T. Lawniczak

Professor | Mathematics and Statistics
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Stephen-LeBlanc
Leah Levac

Associate Professor | Political Science
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
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
Research interests: Science communication, communication and media, art/sci collaborations, media education, health and wellness.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/arts/sets/people/mark-lipton
Kerry Lissemore

Associate Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Health management strategies to increase longevity in dairy cattle, pain reduction strategies for dehorning dairy calves, associations among measures of health, production and nutrition in dairy herds.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/Kerry-Lissemore
Philip A. Loring

Associate Professor | Geography, Environment and Geomatics | Arrell Chair in Food, Policy and Society
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 (participating OHCS department) | 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

Assistant Professor | History | College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
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
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.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/hhns/people/dr-david-wl-ma
Guelph Family Health Study: guelphfamilyhealthstudy.com
Ed McBean

Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences | Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security
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
Marta McCarthy

Associate Professor | Fine Art and Music
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
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
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
Meghan C. McMurtry

Associate Professor | Psychology
Research interests: Parental behaviour when their children are in pain, advocacy and policy in the treatment of pediatric procedural pain, measurement of child fear in the context of pain.
Faculty profile: uoguelph .ca/psychology/users/c-meghan-mcmurtry
Faisal Moola

Associate Professor | Geography, Environment and Geomatics
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 | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Microbial quality of water and public health: 1. Surface water quality and recreation, 2. The impact of septic systems and agricultural activity on private wells, 3. Microbial Ecology of drinking water distribution systems and 4. Water and Sanitation challenges in resource-limited settings.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Heather-Murphy
Susan Nance

Professor | History | College of Arts
Research interests: Animal history, environmental history, live performance and communication, entertainment and information industries, America in the world, 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 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: Qualitative and theoretical methods applied to social issues; social aspects of health and ethical implications of science and technology; public deliberation as a method for involving broader publics in research; developing qualitative methods in psychology; human microbiome.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/psychology/users/kieran-odoherty
Gopinadhan Paliyath

Professor | Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College | Former Research Programme Director, Food for Health
Research interests: The biochemistry of plant senescence; the mechanism of action of food components in disease prevention.
Faculty profile: plant.uoguelph.ca/gpaliyat
Andrew Papadopoulos

Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College | Coordinator, Master of Public Health Program
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: 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 | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences | NSERC Industrial Research Chair
Research interests: As a contaminant hydrogeologist, Beth is interested in the transport and fate of contaminants in the subsurface through soil and groundwater and the risks to human and ecosystem receptors. Her team does research at real field sites using high-resolution methods addressing various contaminant sources on groundwater and surface water quality. One of her long-standing research collaborations is with the City of Guelph, where novel methods for characterizing and monitoring the bedrock aquifer we rely on for our drinking and freshwater supplies are advanced with their UoGuelph G360 Groundwater Research Institute methodologies, staff and students.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/engineering/people/beth-parker
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/faculty/Jane-Parmley
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. Emerging parasitic zoonoses. Development of parasite control programs that minimize the risk of development of drug resistance.
Faculty profile: 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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/ctrmn/dr-jim-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
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 | Management | Department Chair
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 microbiome in disease progression/immune development, One Health approaches to AMR and antibiotic alternatives.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Nicole-Ricker
Darren Robinson

Professor | Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College | Weed Management Specialist
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
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 | Plant Agriculture | Ontario Agricultural College | Director, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation
Research institute: Regulatory signals that modulate plant development and stress mitigation; development of in vitro technologies for propagation and conservation of plant genetic resources for the Canadian agricultural and horticultural industries.
Faculty profile: plant.uoguelph.ca/psaxena
Flavio Schenkel

Professor | Animal Biosciences | Ontario Agricultural College | CGIL Director
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
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 | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College | Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
Research interests: Immunology of avian influenza virus infection, Immune response to Marek’s disease virus in chickens, immunology of avian influenza virus infection in chickens, interactions between commensal bacteria in the intestine and the chicken immune system.
Faculty profile: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Shayan-Sharif
Paul Sibley

Professor | 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

Associate Professor | Geography, Environment and Geomatics
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 | Philosophy | CARE-AI affiliate
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
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 | Hospitality | Food and Tourism Management | Arrell Chair in the Business of Food
Research interests: Agri-food value chain analysis & management, food consumer behaviour.
Faculty profile: www.uoguelph.ca/lang/people/simon-somogyi
Leanne Son Hing

Professor | Psychology
Research interests: Social justice issues, understanding explicit and implicit prejudice, inequalities in the workplace; the inequalities that exist between individuals and groups in terms of status, power, and outcomes (e.g., income) in the workplace; understanding prejudice and social justice issues.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/psychology/users/leanne-son-hing
Kelsey Spence

Assistant Professor | Population Medicine | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Emerging diseases, biosecurity, outbreak preparedness, risk perceptions and health behaviours, risk mitigation strategies, 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 | Computer Science | Informatics Theme Lead, GBADs
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

Adjunct Professor | Geography, Environment, and Geomatics
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.
Faculty profile: geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/stanley-anna
Travis Steffens

Assistant Professor | Sociology and Anthropology
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 | Political Science | Director, Live Work Well Research Centre| Jarislowsky Chair, Families and Work
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
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, chronic disease prevention.
Faculty profile: family.uoguelph.ca/people/hannah-tait-neufeld
Graham Taylor

Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences | Academic Director, NextAI
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
Naresh Thevathasan

Associate Professor | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College
Research interests: Environmental sustainability/resilience, agroforestry, soil health, water quality, carbon sequestration, tree-based intercropping systems.
Faculty profile: ses.uoguelph.ca/people/naresh-thevathasan
Eranga Ukwatta

Assistant 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: The Vahidi research group develops and applies state-of-the-art methods to investigate the structure, function, and dynamics of large biomolecular machines in order to solve problems of biological and clinical importance.
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 | Environmental Sciences | Ontario Agricultural College | Research Program Director, Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance | Co-Executive Director, Soils at Guelph
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

Kim & Stu Lang Professor in Community & Shelter Medicine | Clinical Studies
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
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
Research interests: Sustainability of resource dependant communities, power of marginalized groups in resource management, the interface between social science research and environmental policy, and community engaged scholarship.
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
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.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/foodscience/people/keith-warriner
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
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 | Pathobiology | Ontario Veterinary College | Assistant Co-Director, Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation
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: ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Geoffrey-Wood
Paul Woods

Professor | Clinical Studies | Ontario Veterinary College
Research interests: Oncology and infectious disease.
Faculty profile: 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: uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/people/faculty/Sarah-Wootton
Sunghwan Yi

Associate Professor | Marketing and Consumer Studies
Research interests: Automatic determinants of addictive, impulsive and compulsive consumer behaviour; Factors conducive to success and failures in self-control in the context of gambling and impulsive buying; Motivations for compulsive buying; application of nudging (choice architecture) to promote fruits and vegetables in mass eating contexts; Motives of meat reduction in flexitarians (e.g., health vs. sustainability concerns) and their choice of alternative protein foods; Improving sensory dimensions of FV-rich foods as a way of promoting healthy eating in an institutional food service setting.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/lang/people/sunghwan-yi
Wei Zhang

Assistant Professor | Molecular and Cellular Biology | College of Biological Science | CIFAR Global Scholar
Research interests: Synthesizing probes modulating protein-protein interactions, engineering post-translational modifications to probe and rewire DNA damage signalling for cancer therapeutics, and improvement of CRISPR-based gene editing through directed evolution.
Faculty profile: uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-wei-zhang
Richard G. Zytner

Professor | Engineering | College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research interests: Soil remediation technology -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.
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.