Contact Information
30 Asl
127 W Gregory Dr
M/C 630
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Animal Sciences
Associate Head, Director of Graduate Studies, Animal Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Professor, Crop Sciences
Professor, Statistics
Professor, Neuroscience Program
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Southey, B. R., Sunderland, G. R., Gomez, A. N., Bhamidi, S., & Rodriguez-Zas, S. L. (2025). Incidence of alternative splicing associated with sex and opioid effects in the axon guidance pathway. Gene, 942, Article 149215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2025.149215
Alsegehy, S., Southey, B. R., Hernandez, A. G., Rund, L. A., Antonson, A. M., Nowak, R. A., Johnson, R. W., & Rodriguez-Zas, S. L. (2024). Epigenetic disruptions in the offspring hypothalamus in response to maternal infection. Gene, 910, Article 148329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2024.148329
Figueiredo, C. C., Casaro, S., Cunha, F., Merenda, V. R., de Oliveira, E. B., Pinedo, P., Santos, J. E. P., Chebel, R. C., Schuenemann, G. M., Bicalho, R. C., Gilbert, R. O., Zas, S. R., Seabury, C. M., Rosa, G., Thatcher, W. W., Bisinotto, R. S., & Galvão, K. N. (2024). Evaluating differences in milk production, reproductive performance, and survival associated with vaginal discharge characteristics and fever in postpartum dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 107(8), 6079-6089. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-23905
Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Nowak, R. A., Antonson, A. M., Rund, L., Bhamidi, S., Gomez, A. N., Southey, B. R., & Johnson, R. W. (2024). Immune and metabolic challenges induce changes in pain sensation and related pathways in the hypothalamus. Physiological genomics, 56(4), 343-359. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00134.2023
Southey, B. R., Romanova, E. V., Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., & Sweedler, J. V. (2024). Bioinformatics for Prohormone and Neuropeptide Discovery. In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 151-178). (Methods in Molecular Biology; Vol. 2758). Humana Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3646-6_8