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**Collaborations**
The West Lafayette, Indiana has a long and productive history of collaborative research involving stakeholders.

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Current collaborators and projects:
                            Thermal perches as warming devices for reducing cold stress in laying hens                        
                            WEPP Watershed Web-based GIS Interface                        
                            WEPP GIS for NRCS Field Scale Erosion Assessment                        
                            Developing Breeding Resources and Understanding Pathogen Biology to Control Frogeye Leaf Spot in Indiana (Year 3)                        
                            Integrating Functional Genomics, Behavior, and Health Measures to Mitigate the Cumulative Effects of in Utero Heat Stress on Swine Welfare                        
                            Enhancing the Thermal Environment of Sows and Piglets to Simultaneously Improve Sow Welfare and Improve Lifetime Performance and Survivability of...                        
                            Thermal Perches as Warming Devices for Reducing Cold Stress in Caged Laying Hens                        
                            Characterizing Formula-fed Veal and Dairy Beef Calf Welfare Through Audits and Industry Engagement                        
                            Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP)                        
                            Elucidating the Biology of Sow Tolerance to Heat Stress at The Intersection of the Genome, Microbiome and Metabolome                        
                            Understanding the role of the genome, microbiome, and epigenome on the transgenerational effects of in utero heat stress in pigs                        
                            PARTNERSHIP: Characterizing formula-fed veal and dairy beef calf welfare through audits and industry engagement                        
                            Genetic Analysis of a Candidate Hessian Fly-responsive Defense Gene Function Using a Rice Cultivar as Surrogate Genome                        
                            Evaluation of Effects of a Animal Nutrition Supplement on Short and Long-term Sow and Litter Health, Performance, and Welfare Under Heat Stress                        
                            WEPP Model Development, Testing and Support                        
                            Ag-Discovery Summer Enrichment Program                        
                            Assessing Legacy Phosphorus Losses from Fields and Watersheds in the Western Lake Erie Basin                        
                            Developing Methods for More Efficient Wheat Transformation                        
                            Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - Purdue University                        
                            Identifying Important Pathogenicity Factors in Fungal Pathogens for Developing Novel Soybean Disease Control Strategies                        
                            Thermal perches as warming devices for reducing cold stress in laying hens                        
                            Functional Analysis of Genes in the Wheat Pathogen Zymoseptoria Tritici                        
                            Determine relationships between stress-load and calf behavior in precision livestock farming                        
                            Reducing the Negative Impact of In Utero Heat Stress on Swine Immune Function Through Functional Genomics                        
                            Tar Spot of Corn: Characterizing the Ecology and Epidemiology of an Understudied and High-Profile Disease                        
                            Characterizing Formula-fed Veal and Dairy Beef Calf Welfare through Audits and Industry Engagement                        
                            Supplementing Dairy Calves with L-glutamine to Reduce Antibiotic Use                        
                            Evaluating the Interactions Between Swine Behavior and Heat Stress Response                        
                            Developing Breeding Resources and Understanding Pathogen Biology to Control Frogeye Leaf Spot in Indiana (Year 3)                        
                            Evaluating the effects of water delivered L-glutamine on mitigating stress and improving productivity in weaned pigs                        
                            Integrating Functional Genomics, Behavior, and Health Measures to Mitigate the Cumulative Effects of in Utero Heat Stress on Swine Welfare                        
                            Utilize the Purdue Animal Care and Use Committee (PACUC)                        
                            Determining the Thermal Preference of Weanling Pigs                        
                            Improving Piglet Survivability and Sow Welfare through Microenvironment Management                        
                            WEPP Model Development, Testing and Support                        
                            Identifying Phenotypic and Genotypic Indicators of Dairy Cattle Resilience in Automated Farming Systems                        
                            Genetic Approaches for Soybean Protein Improvement                        
                            Understanding Mechanisms of Multitrophic Interactions between Aphids, Viruses, Symbionts and Cereal Plants                        
                            Developing Tools for Genotype Independent Transformation and Gene-Editing in Cereals                        
                            Improving the Environment of Piglets and Sows to Enhance Performance and Welfare                        
                            Improving Welfare of Swine and Poultry through Environmental Enrichment                        
                            Swine Thermal Stress Mobile Application HotHog                        
                            NRCS WEPP Model Programming, Testing and Support                        
                            Engineering Gene-for-Gene Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and Barley (Rothamsted)                        
                            Determining the Roles of Fusarium Effector Proteases in Plant Pathogenesis                        
                            Improvement of Oat Germplasm for Resistance/Tolerance to BarleyYellow Dwarf Virus Utilizing Marker-Assisted-Selection Breeding                        
                            Developing New Technologies for Improving Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight                        
                            Assessing Legacy Phosphorus losses from Fields and Watersheds in the Western Lake Erie Basin                        
                            PARTNERSHIP: Characterizing formula-fed veal and dairy beef calf welfare through audits and industry engagement