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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 25
    2. Agricultural Education 8
    3. Animal Sciences 7
    4. Life Sciences 5
    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. AI and machine Learning 1
    3. Agricultural water resources management using remote sensing 1
    4. Algae cultivation and wastewater treatment, algal biofertilizers, Climate-smart agriculture, soil health, AI in Agriculture 1
    5. Annonaceae 1
    6. Application Development 1
    7. Biodiversity Conservation 1
    8. Carbon dynamics 1
    9. Carbon dynamics, modeling, natural hazards, and soil health 1
    10. Climate Smart Agriculture 1
    11. Climate change impact on water resources 1
    12. 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
    13. Conducting research in dairy chemistry, food flavors, food preservation, and product development such as in ice creams, cheeses, and yogurts from goat milk. 1
    14. Crop simulation modeling for Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Resiliency 1
    15. Cybersecurity 1
    16. Diet-Microbiome-Host interactions using rodent models of human chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and functional gut disorders. 1
    17. Ecology 1
    18. Economically important traits with an emphasis on fertility in livestock, Systems Biology and Physiology. 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 insecurity, Climate-Smart, and Sustainable Agriculture 1
    25. Food security, nutrition, public health nutrition 1
    26. GIS 1
    27. Ground Penetrating Radar and landmine detection 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. Manure and Compost Applications 1
    32. Marriage & Family Counseling/Therapy 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. 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
    38. 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
    39. My research interests focus on nutrition interventions aimed at driving behavioral change across diverse populations to improve food systems and enhance overall nutrition. I am particularly interested in translational and implementation science research to prevent malnutrition and diet-related chronic diseases. 1
    40. Nitrogen Management and Wheat Quality. 1
    41. Plant Science, Nanomaterials, Biodegradable Polymers 1
    42. Postharvest handling and safety of fruits and vegetables 1
    43. Proteomics 1
    44. Reproductive biology 1
    45. Research Methodology, Big data Analysis, Data/Text Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Consulting, Design of Experiments 1

Organization

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

Position

    1. Faculty Member 36
    2. Non-Faculty Academic Position 11
    3. Non-Academic Position 4
    4. Adjunct Faculty Member 1