Contact Information
30 Asl
127 W Gregory Dr
M/C 630
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, Statistics
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Crop Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Associate Head, Director of Graduate Studies, Animal Sciences
Recent Publications
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
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
Alsegehy, S., Southey, B. R., Rund, L., Johnson, R. W., & Rodriguez-Zas, S. L. (2023). Genes Participating in the Ensheathment of Neurons Are Affected by Postnatal Stress and Maternal Immune Activation in the Pituitary Gland. Genes, 14(5), Article 1007. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14051007
Mendenhall, R., Lee, M. J., Cole, S. W., Morrow, R., Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Henderson, L., Turi, K. N., & Greenlee, A. (2023). Black Mothers in Racially Segregated Neighborhoods Embodying Structural Violence: PTSD and Depressive Symptoms on the South Side of Chicago. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10(5), 2513-2527. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01432-1