Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Dr. Todd Callaway, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Science at the University of Georgia. Todd is a ruminant microbiologist who received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Georgia in Animal and Dairy Science, and completed his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology from Cornell University. Dr. Callaway joined the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA (USDA-ARS) and served as a research microbiologist in the Food and Feed Safety Research Unit in College Station, Texas. Dr. Callaway became National Program Leader for Food Safety for USDA-ARS, with a research portfolio that included: On-Farm Food Safety, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Microbiome exploration. Dr. Callaway has published more than 240 refereed journal articles, over 25 book chapters, and 2 books. Dr. Callaway received the American Society of Animal Science Early Career Research Award and the USDA/ARS Early Career Research Awards. His research focuses on the role of the gut microbiota in the nutrition of cattle, and how the complex environment of the cattle gastrointestinal tract can impact food safety and production efficiency. He has led research focused on improving digestibility and altering endproducts from microbial fermentations, including impacts on methane, ammonia, VFA, and DMD/NDF digestibility.
Dr. Callaway is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, and currently serves as an Expert Panelist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization on AMR and Foodborne Pathogens in swine and cattle, and as an Expert Panelist on “AMR and the Development of Innovative Alternatives to Antibiotics Working Group” for the Global Strategic Alliance for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR-IDAZ), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM MT