Nutraceutical and Functional Foods

Acharya

♦ Ram N Acharya | Associate Professor

Expertise:

Farm production risk and profitability, valuation of ecosystem services, food safety and security, marketing of farm and value added products, and sustainability

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Delgado

♦ Efren Delgado | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Food Chemistry, functional foods and food processing
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food processing
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
giese

♦ Gill Giese | Extension Viticulture Specialist | ggiese@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Viticulture, enology, grape and wine compositional quality, cover crops and soil health, nematodes and other biotic factors that impact grape and wine compositional quality, water use and irrigation efficiency

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Ivette Guzman | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Plant Physiology, Nutraceutical and Medicinal Plants

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
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♦ F. Omar Holguin |Associate Professor

Expertise:

Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Proteomics, Secondary Metabolism, Analytical Chemistry, Natural Products Isolation, Mass Spectrometry, Bioactive Molecules, Nutraceuticals

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Ivey

♦ Shanna Ivey | Department Head | sivey@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Gut microbiology

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
Sergio Martinez - Monteagudo

♦ Sergio Martinez-Monteagudo | Assistant Professor

Expertise:

Value-added, extraction of bioactive compounds, chemical modifications, technology development

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Valorization of Agricultural byproduct streams
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Robinson

♦ Chadelle Robinson | Assistant Professor | chadelle@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Food marketing, general marketing, consumer behavior, and general agricultural business

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Scholljegerdes

♦ Eric Scholljegerdes | Associate Professor | ejs@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Ruminant nutrition, Animal physiology, Animal health, Animal management, Range management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Turner

♦ Jason L. Turner | Professor | jlturner@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Animal health, Nutrition, Immunology

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
Thompson

♦ Marisa Y. Thompson, PhD | NMSU Extension Horticulture Specialist | risi@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Urban horticulture, landscape ornamentals, xeriscaping, backyard fruits and vegetables, urban trees/forests, mitigating effects of climate change through sustainable planting, water-wise gardening, and supporting wildlife habitats

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
vanderpool

♦ Cassandra Vanderpool | Extension Associate II; Credentials: MS, RDN, LD | cvpool@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Nutrition/Dietetics-general, diabetes, maternal/child, pediatric, disabilities

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
Walker

♦ Stephanie J. Walker | Extension Vegetable Specialist | swalker@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Chile pepper processing, variety selection and mechanization. Sustainable vegetable production techniques including season extension, irrigation efficiency, crop rotation, companion planting, and cover crops. Vegetable breeding and seed saving

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
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♦ Marcy Ward | Extension Livestock Specialist

Expertise:
Beef cattle nutrition, health, reproduction, and management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Shengrui Yao | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Fruit related research, especially jujubes.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Jinfa Zhang | Professor | jinzhang@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Cotton breeding, Genetics, Genomics, Development of drought and salt-tolerant cotton cultivars, Development of value-added gladness cotton cultivars

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems