California Dairy Team Contacts

Statewide Specialists & Faculty

Dr SHARIF S. ALY
Title: PROFESSOR-SFT-VM
Specialty: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Address:
VM - Teaching & Research Center
18830 Road 112
Tulare, CA 93274
Phone: 5596881731
Email: saly@ucdavis.edu

MUNASHE CHIGERWE
Title: Assistant Professor
Address:
VM - Medicine & Epidemiology
One Shields Avenue
2108 Tupper Hall
Davis, CA 95616
Email: mchigerwe@ucdavis.edu

Edward J. DePeters
Title: Distinguished Professor
Specialty: Ruminant nutrition of dairy cattle; mammary gland synthesis of milk protein and fat; nutrient digestion, absorption, and metabolism; evaluation of by-product feedstuffs and forage quality.
Address:
Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8521
Phone: (530) 752-1263
Email: ejdepeters@ucdavis.edu

Dr Alec C Gerry
Title: Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in Veterinary Entomology
Specialty: Veterinary Entomology
Address:
Dr. Alec Gerry
900 University Ave
Department of Entomology, University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-7054
Email: alecg@ucr.edu

Mark E Lundy
Title: Associate CE Specialist
Specialty: Grain Cropping Systems, resource use efficiency, integrating technology into production practices, nitrogen and carbon cycling in crop-soil systems, genotype x environment x management interactions, phenotyping, remote/proximal sensing technologies
Address:
Department of Plant Sciences
Plant and Environmental Sciences Bldg.
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-902-7295
Email: melundy@ucdavis.edu

Deanne Meyer
Title: Livestock Waste Management Specialist
Specialty: Livestock waste management
Address:
One Shields Avenue
2209
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 304-1092
Email: dmeyer@ucanr.edu

Dr Frank M Mitloehner Ph.D.
Title: Professor and CE Specialist
Specialty: Livestock systems air quality; quantification and mitigation of Ag air pollutants
Address:
Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
2151 Meyer Hall
Davis, CA 95616-8521
Phone: (530) 752-3936
Email: fmmitloehner@ucdavis.edu

Michael A. Payne
Title: Outreach Coordinator
Specialty: Food Safety
Address:
Western Institute for Food Safety and Security (WIFSS)
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-304-09306
Email: mpayne@ucdavis.edu

Luis M Peña-Lévano
Title: UC Cooperative Extension specialist
Specialty: Dairy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Labor, International Trade, Agribusiness
Address:
VM - Teaching & Research Center
18830 Road 112
Tulare, CA 93274
Email: lpenalevano@ucdavis.edu

Richard Van Vleck Pereira
Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical LIvestock and Herd Health
Specialty: "Livestock herd health and reproduction, epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, dairy cattle."
Email: rvpereira@ucdavis.edu

Heidi A. Rossow
Title: Professor
Specialty: Ruminant nutrition and physiology, Feed management and feeding systems, mechanistic modeling
Address:
VM - Teaching & Research Center
18830 Road 112
Tulare, CA 93274
Email: harossow@ucdavis.edu

Noelia Silva Del Rio
Title: UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Extension Specialist
Specialty: Dairy
Address:
VMTRC
18830 Rd. 112
Tulare, CA, CA 93274-9537
Phone: (559) 688-1731
Email: nsilvadelrio@ucdavis.edu

Cassandra Blaine Tucker
Title: Professor
Specialty: Animal welfare, animal behavior, effects of housing, management and environmental conditions on cattle
Address:
Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8521
Phone: (530) 754-5750
Email: cbtucker@ucdavis.edu

Alison Van Eenennaam Ph.D.
Title: CE Specialist Animal Biotechnology and Genomics
Specialty: Animal genomics, biotechnology, beef cattle, genetic engineering, animal breeding
Address:
Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
2113 Meyer Hall
Davis, CA 95616-8521
Phone: (530) 752-7942
Email: alvaneenennaam@ucdavis.edu

Dr Daniele Zaccaria
Title: Associate Professor and Agricultural Water Management Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Agricultural water management and irrigation
Address:
LAWR/Hoagland
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 219-7502
Email: dzaccaria@ucdavis.edu