Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

Portrait of Dr. Wendy Pearson

Wendy Pearson

My research program seeks to understand the underlying physiology of diseases common in horses, and how these diseases can be modified with targeted nutrition, with a focus on cartilage biology.

Email: wpearson@uoguelph.ca

Professor Giannina Descalzi at the University of Guelph

Giannina Descalzi

Chronic pain is a debilitating condition affecting 1 in 5 humans and animals. Our research aims to address the urgent need for the development of effective therapeutic strategies to clinically alleviate chronic pain symptoms.

Email: gdescalz@uoguelph.ca

Brandon Lillie professor of Pathobiology, Bioinformatics

Brandon Lillie

My research focuses primarily on the genetic regulation of innate immunity in animals, with a particular focus on innate immune pattern recognition proteins.

Portrait of Dr. Alejandro Marangoni

Alejandro Marangoni

Guelph has the top Food Science program in the world. We do exciting research at the forefront of the Food Science endeavor.

Email: amarango@uoguelph.ca

Professor Sean D. Kelly

Professor Sean D. Kelly

I am fascinated by rurally located places of destination...My students and I work towards understanding how physical design and planning can ameliorate negative impacts on these rural environments.

Email: skelly03@uoguelph.ca

Headshot of Deborah Powell

Deborah Powell

My research focuses mainly on personnel selection, with an emphasis on finding valid and fair methods of hiring the best employees. Most recently, I have investigated employment interviews as a promising approach to measuring personality in job applicants. My research also...

Email: dpowell@uoguelph.ca

Ryan Broll

Ryan Broll

My research interests include bullying and cyberbullying, policing, and victimization. I am particularly interested in the ways in which the peer, family, and school contexts influence adolescents' involvement in cyberbullying, and how groups of adults collaborate to prevent and respond to cyberbullying.

University of Guelph Biomedical Sciences Professor Laura A. Favetta

Laura Favetta

The research that we conduct in my laboratory aims to understand the causes of infertility at the gene level and pinpoint the mechanisms through which toxicants affect fertility both in humans and farm animals. Understanding how things happen will help in finding ways of overcoming it.​

Email: lfavetta@uoguelph.ca