{"id":673,"date":"2023-01-13T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels-draft\/?page_id=673"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:23:24","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-systems\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biological and Environmental Sciences<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems<\/h2>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"SAFS\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-safs\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-679\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-679\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-systems\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-677\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-677\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-systems\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-678\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-678\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-systems\/affiliated-faculty\/\">Affiliated Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-676\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-676\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-systems\/research\/\">Research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Animal science<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/maria-hoffman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Hoffman<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/katherine-h-petersson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Petersson<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/becky-l-sartini\/\" target=\"_blank\">Becky Sartini<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2130\/safs_research_animals-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"Animals grazing in a field\" class=\"wp-image-703\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers in Animal Science focus on the sustainable production of animals with an emphasis on the areas of reproduction, nutrition, and health management.&nbsp; Examples of research topics include: improvement of reproductive efficiency of livestock; the effect of maternal programming on the growth, development and function of the pancreas; the impact of maternal parasite burden on offspring; identification of sustainable alternatives for the management of gastrointestinal parasites in sheep and goats; and the impact of high maternal milk production and incidence of mastitis on calf health.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Integrated sustainable agriculture and food systems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty:&nbsp;<\/strong>Natural scientists from all areas in SAFS collaborating with social scientists, including:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/carlos-g-garcia-quijano\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Garcia-Quijano<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/cels.uri.edu\/enre\/FacultyDetail.aspx?FName=Emi&amp;LName=Uchida\" target=\"_blank\">Emi Uchida<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/hirotsugu-uchida\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hiro Uchida<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/richard-sheridan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Sheridan<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/meet\/melva-trevino-pena-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melva Trevi\u00f1o Pe\u00f1a,&nbsp;<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pse\/meet\/john-r-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Taylor,&nbsp;<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/patrick-baur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Baur<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2130\/safs_research_sustainable-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person hand tilling a field with farm animals in the background\" class=\"wp-image-709\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting the challenges of sustainably producing food in the face of a growing population and global change without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs requires an integrated understanding of both the natural and human-driven systems involved in the production and consumption of food. This interdisciplinary program builds upon URI\u2019s unique set of expertise in agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, nutrition and food science, community planning and design, engineering, environmental management and policy, resource economics, business, environmental anthropology, sociology, and global development.&nbsp; Faculty teams with contributors from both the natural and social sciences use a broad array of approaches to help achieve the sustainable production, management, consumption, and utilization of plants and animals to help in the development of healthy communities.&nbsp; Projects emphasize the integration of different systems (soil, microbes, plants, animals, and humans) and different disciplines (molecular, cellular and organismal biology, ecology, economics, policy, anthropology, and sociology).<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sustainable aquaculture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/terence-m-bradley\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Terence Bradley<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/marta-gomez-chiarri\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marta Gomez-Chiarri<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/austin-humphries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Humphries<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/michael-a-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Rice<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/coleen-suckling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coleen Suckling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2130\/safs_research_aqua-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-705\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research focuses on the sustainable management of marine resources, with an emphasis on the production of species providing food and sustenance to humans. Faculty use a variety of approaches and disciplines, from genomics to ecosystem-science, to address major challenges in the harvesting and culture of marine species across a variety of coastal ecosystems, both local and global. Examples of areas of research include: determining species tolerance to future environmental conditions; identifying new prospective production species and associated sustainable cultivation methods; the design of novel methods to manage infectious diseases affecting wild and cultured aquatic species; and the study of the scientific components of ecosystem-based fisheries management (habitat, trophic interactions, climate variation, and human dimensions). Our programs benefit from a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities at URI and train students in applying both traditional and novel technologies in ensuring food security while minimizing environmental impacts.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nutrition and food sciences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty:&nbsp;<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/meet\/sarah-amin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Amin<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/geoffrey-w-greene\/\">Geoffrey Greene<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/ingrid-lofgren\/\">Ingrid Lofgren<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/kathleen-j-melanson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Melanson<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/meet\/brietta-oaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brietta Oaks<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/alison-tovar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Tovar<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nfs\/meet\/maya-vadiveloo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Vadiveloo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2130\/safs_research_food-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers working inside a greenhouse\" class=\"wp-image-710\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We conduct research across several areas within nutrition and food sciences including community-based research, eating behaviors, diet and chronic diseases, lipid metabolism, obesity and cardiovascular disease, and food safety. Examples of research projects span from investigating the basic molecular mechanisms regulating the physiology and virulence of bacterial food-borne pathogens to the impact of \u201cgreen eating\u201d behaviors on obesity and nutrition interventions to decrease chronic disease risk.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"uri-people-tool cl-tiles halves\"><div class=\"peopleitem h-card \">\n\t<header>\n\t\t<div class=\"header\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"p-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/meet\/patrick-baur\/\">Patrick Baur<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div class=\"inside\">\n\n\t\t<p class=\"people-title p-job-title\">SAFS Specialization Group Coordinator<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-department\">Sustainable Agriculture\/Food Systems<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-misc\"><span class=\"p-tel\">401.874.7083<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"peopleitem h-card \">\n\t<header>\n\t\t<div class=\"header\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"p-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/favs\/katherine-h-petersson\/\">Katherine Petersson<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div class=\"inside\">\n\n\t\t<p class=\"people-title p-job-title\">SAFS Specialization Group Coordinator, Professor<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-department\">Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-misc\"><span class=\"p-tel\">401.874.2951<\/span> <br> <a class=\"u-email\" href=\"mailto:kpetersson@uri.edu\">kpetersson@uri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/\" title=\"\">BES Main<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"parent":102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/673\/revisions\/711"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}