Faculty Directory
Faculty members in the Department of Grain Science and Industry come from many different backgrounds and focus on a variety of disciplines.
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Joseph Awika
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Plant Derived Secondary Metabolite Chemistry Relevant to Food Quality; Nutrition and Human Health; Bioactive Compound (small molecules) Interactions in Food Matrix; Phenolic Compound Food-polymer Interactions and Consequences on Food Properties; Biological Effects of Plant Derived Bioactive Compounds and International Nutrition and Food Security. |
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Sajid AlaviProfessor |
Food engineering, specifically Extrusion Processing in Food; Pet Food and Feed Applications; Rheology; Mmicrostructure Imaging; Structure - Texture Relationships; Advances on the Interface of Processing and Nutrition; Process Sustainability and Use of AI and Machine Learning Tools in Processing |
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Guy AllenSenior Agricultural Economist; Grain Marketing and Risk Management Curriculum Manager |
Agribusiness - domestic & international; commodity trading and risk management; supply chain logistics and commodity analysis and new business development |
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Karen BlakesleeExtension Associate |
Food Science for Extension Agents |
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Paul BlodgettHal Ross Flour Mill; Program/Project Manager |
Materials Handling; Technical Milling; Mill Maintenance; Flour Milling; Durum Milling and Plant and Mill Operations |
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Carlos CampabadalInstructor/ IGP Outreach Specialist |
Grain Quality; Storage and Processing and Feed Manufacturing Engineering and Spanish Language Technical Support |
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Fran ChurchillProfessor of Practice; NAMA Instructor |
Technical Flour Milling and Plant Operations |
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Aaron ClantonBNEF Instructor |
Baking Science; Flour and Ingredient Functionality and Product Development and Bakery Operations |
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Hulya DoganRoss Endowed Professor |
Food Engineering; Grain Processing and Milling; Biopolymer Science; Fundamental and Empirical Rheology; Physical, Mechanical, Thermo-mechanical and Microstructural Characterization; Structure-Texture Relationships; Food Processing; Extrusion and Mathematical Modeling and Process Optimization |
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Huseyin DoganProfessor of Practice |
Process Flow Diagram for Grain Operations; Power Distribution and Management on Grain Processing Facilities; Flour and Feed Technology and 2-D and 3-D Plant Design with AutoCAD |
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Kelly GettyAssociate Professor/Extension Specialist |
Food safety; Food Product Development; Ingredient Functionality and Food Processing |
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Elisa KarkleAssistant Professor |
Baking and Cereal Science; Sourdough Fermentation; Ingredient Functionality in Grain-based Foods and End-product Quality Assessment
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Yonghui LiAssociate Professor; Wheat Quality Lab Director |
Grain Protein Chemistry & Applications; Bioactive Compounds and Peptides; Bakery Science & Chemistry and Spplied AI and Machine Learning. |
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Abbey NutschTeaching Professor/FDSCI; Undergrad Teaching Coordinator |
Food Science and Food Microbiology |
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Chad PaulkAssociate Professor; Undergraduate Programs Chair and Teaching Coordinator |
Feed Processing Technologies; Monogastric Nutrition and Quality Assurance and Feed Safety |
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Julia Guazzelli PezzaliAssistant Professor; Pet Food Program Director |
Pet Food Processing Technologies; Nutritional Impacts of Processing; Pet Food Quality; Functional Foods; Companion Animal Nutrition and Metabolism and Protein Metabolism |
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Deanna RetzlaffTeaching Professor |
Food Microbiology; Online Education and Advising Nontraditional Student Populations |
Kaliramesh SiliveruUniversity Outstanding Scholar; Associate Professor |
Grain processing and Milling; Food Safety; Process Modeling and Simulation; Particle Technology and Mmaterials Handling. |
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Yong-Cheng ShiProfessor |
Starch Structure and Functionality; Physical, Chemical and Genetic Modifications of Starch; Enzymatic Modifications of Biopolymers; Cereal Starch Digestibility and Carbohydrate Nutrition |
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Scott SmithProfessor; Chair, Food Science Graduate Program |
Food Chemistry and Toxicology |
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Shawn ThieleIGP Associate Director; Flour Milling and Grain Processing Specialist |
Technical Milling and Grain Processing; Specialty Grain Milling and Plant Operations |
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Jason WattBuhler Instructor of Milling |
Technical Milling |