Dr. Cabrera combines applied research, interdisciplinary approaches, and participatory methods to deliver practical, data-driven, user-friendly, and scientific decision support tools for dairy farm management. These scientific tools are improving dairy farm profitability, environmental stewardship, and …
Dairy Sciences
Brian Kirkpatrick
My long-running interests have been genetics broadly, and the genetic basis for variation in reproduction and health in cattle specifically. Particular areas of interest include genetics of twin birth and susceptibility to the pathogen responsible …
Chuck Nicholson
I am an agricultural economist who contributes core economic perspectives on food system issues relevant to society, often working closely with other disciplines and using integrative systems approaches. My research program focuses on the economics …
Alex O’Brien
As CDR’s Dairy Safety & Quality Coordinator, Alex O’Brien assists dairy plants with food safety plans, quality issues, and performs third party audits. Alex has worked in the food industry for the past 10 years, …
Keith Poulsen
Keith Poulsen is a practicing large animal veterinarian at the Morrie Waud Large Animal Hospital at the School of Veterinary Medicine and is the Section Head of Client Services at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. …
Douglas Reinemann
Douglas Reinemann is proud to call Sheboygan his hometown and to have found a place at the University of Wisconsin, where the boundaries of the University are the boundaries of the state. His work as …
Faith Reyes
Faith Reyes is a Dairy Outreach Specialist in the Division of Extension at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She completed B.S. in Animal Science at UW-River Falls and her M.S. at Colorado State University …
Christine Seroogy
Christine Seroogy is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Christine grew up in Green Bay and received a BS in Microbiology from UW–Madison. She completed her medical education at the University of Minnesota, UC …
Dean Sommer
Dean has worked at the Center for Dairy Research for the last 22 years, serving as a technical resource to Wisconsin cheese manufacturers and their customers. Prior to that Dean worked for 18 years at …
Kevin Walters
Kevin Walters works in Public Affairs at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) where he has served as a researcher, historian, archivist, and executive communicator since 2011. He completed a PhD in history from the …
Michel Wattiaux
I grew up on a dairy farm and was a first-generation college student in Belgium. I came to the U.S. in 1985 and completed a PhD in ruminant nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After …