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Adela Mora-Gutierrez

Research Scientist

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Structure-functionality relationships in foods with emphasis on food proteins, polysaccharides and lipid complexes. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of protein-water interactions. Molecular models of proteins in highly hydrated forms. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy of proteins. Nanoscale production systems and technologies for the optimum delivery of lipophilic bioactive compounds such as lutein, resveratrol, docosahexaenoic (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).

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  1. College of Agriculture & Human Sciences

Discipline

    1. Agriculture 28
    2. Agricultural Education 8
    3. Animal Sciences 8
    4. Life Sciences 7
    5. Plant Sciences 4

Research Interest

    1. (1) Water, Food and Energy Security 1
    2. (2) Water Food Energy Nexus 1
    3. (3) Water Allocation 1
    4. (4) Sustainable Water Resources Management Climate change effects on watershed hydrology 1
    5. (5) Adaptation to and Mitigation of Extreme Hydrological Events (Flood and Drought) 1
    1. (6) Numerical Modeling at multi spatial and temporal scales (Watershed, field, and other relevant scales). 1
    2. Animal Science 1
    3. Annonaceae 1
    4. Antimicrobials 1
    5. Application Development 1
    6. At risk, limited resource, senior populations 1
    7. Beef 1
    8. Biodiversity Conservation 1
    9. Carbon dynamics, modeling, natural hazards, and soil health 1
    10. Climate change impact on water resources, parameterization of land surface characteristics in hydrology, Agricultural water resources management using remote sensing, GIS, and climate forecasts 1
    11. Conducting research in dairy chemistry, food flavors, food preservation, and product development such as in ice creams, cheeses, and yogurts from goat milk. 1
    12. Cybersecurity 1
    13. Diet-Microbiome-Host interactions using rodent models of human chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and functional gut disorders. 1
    14. E. coli 1
    15. Ecology 1
    16. Economically important traits with an emphasis on fertility in livestock, Systems Biology and Physiology. 1
    17. Electrophoresis 1
    18. Enzymology 1
    19. Epigenetics 1
    20. Ethnobotany 1
    21. Family Systems Theory 1
    22. Family Violence and Parent-child relationships 1
    23. Floras of Sri Lanka, Thailand, China and Malesiana 1
    24. Food Safety 1
    25. Food insecurity, Climate-Smart, and Sustainable Agriculture 1
    26. Food security, nutrition, public health nutrition 1
    27. Hormones during estrous cycle in goats. Factors that influence the estrus duration and ovulation in goats. Methods of semen collection in large and small ruminants. Semen evaluation and freezing. Assisted reproductive technologies in large and small ruminants. 1
    28. Ingredient functionality, Product development, Meat Quality 1
    29. Livestock economics, agricultural markets and trade, agricultultural technology, biofuels policy, agriculture and climate change 1
    30. Machine Learning 1
    31. Marriage & Family Counseling/Therapy 1
    32. Mechanisms of organic Reactions 1
    33. Medicinal Plants, Cannabis sativa (Industrial Hemp), Phytochemistry 1
    34. Microbial Food Safety, Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) 1
    35. Microbial food safety 1
    36. Mitrephora 1
    37. Molecular Biology 1
    38. My current research interest includes improving feed utilization efficiency of goats, determining residual feed intakes (RFI) of different breeds of goats, evaluating novel freed biomass as livestock feed ingredients, 1
    39. My focus is on serving limited resource populations by providing education in the areas of health and wellness, childhood obesity, food safety, financial literacy, Limited English Proficiency (LEP), and parenting. 1
    40. Natural Resources and Environmental Systems 1
    41. Nitrogen Management and Wheat Quality. 1
    42. Nucleic Acid Chemistry 1
    43. Organic synthesis 1
    44. Postharvest handling and safety of fruits and vegetables 1
    45. Proteomics 1

Organization

    1. College of Agriculture & Human Sciences
    2. Animal Science 1
    3. Cooperative Agricultural Research Center 1
    4. International Goat Research Center, Cooperative Agricultural Research Center 1

Position

    1. Faculty Member 40
    2. Non-Faculty Academic Position 14
    3. Non-Academic Position 4
    4. Adjunct Faculty Member 1