Overall Lab Focus/Lab Research Interests:

• Nutrition and metabolism in companion animals (dogs and cats).
• Trace mineral requirements in the cat.
• The influence of trace minerals on reproductive efficiency in cats.
• Taurine metabolism in the dog.
• Improvement of pet foods.
• Veterinary clinical nutrition - the use of nutrition in the management and prevention of disease.

Courses Taught:

• APC 484 Ruminant Nutrition and Physiology
• VMB 485 Advanced Clinical Nutrition
• VMB 290 Research Group Seminar
• VMB 290 Clinical Nutrition Seminar
• VMD 403 Physiological Chemistry
• VMD 408 Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases

• Principal Investigator:
  Dr. Andrea J. Fascetti
  
  
• Graduate Student:
  Meri Phelps

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