Contact Information
30 Asl
127 W Gregory Dr
M/C 630
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Animal Sciences
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., 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
Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Southey, B. R., Rymut, H. E., Rund, L. A., & Johnson, R. W. (2023). Hippocampal Changes Elicited by Metabolic and Inflammatory Stressors following Prenatal Maternal Infection. Genes, 14(1), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14010077
Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Southey, N. L., Rund, L., Antonson, A. M., Nowak, R. A., & Johnson, R. W. (2023). Prenatal and postnatal challenges affect the hypothalamic molecular pathways that regulate hormonal levels. PloS one, 18(10), Article e0292952. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292952
Seabury, C. M., Smith, J. L., Wilson, M. L., Bhattarai, E., Santos, J. E. P., Chebel, R. C., Galvão, K. N., Schuenemann, G. M., Bicalho, R. C., Gilbert, R. O., Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Rosa, G., Thatcher, W. W., & Pinedo, P. J. (2023). Genome-wide association and genomic prediction for a reproductive index summarizing fertility outcomes in U.S. Holsteins. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 13(9), Article jkad043. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad043