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Dustin Yates

Jessica Petersen (center), associate professor of animal science, and graduate students Mackenzie Batt (left) and Lauren Seier (right) are part of a five-person Husker team whose research can expand the range of genetic tools used by breeders to boost cattle growth efficiency.

Husker team to ID genetic tools to boost cattle growth efficiency

September 21, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of molecular nutrition in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, leads the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases through Dietary Molecules. The center has received an additional $11 million from the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program, or COBRE, to continue another five years.

Center earns $11 million to continue obesity-prevention research

October 14, 2019