Dr. Juan Pedro Steibel received his Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy at the National University of La Pampa and his Master’s degree in Biometry at the University of Buenos Aires. He completed his PhD studies in Animal Science at Michigan State University. He is a Professor and Lush Chair for Animal Breeding & Genetics Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University. He investigates the development, adaptation, and application of statistical and computational methods to advance swine production and breeding through the integration of multi-omics data streams.
Dr. Auriel A. Willette received his MS and PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of Rutgers University. He started his first post-doctoral position in neuroepidemiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Medicine and Public Health in 2010, then a second post-doctoral appointment in human neuroimaging at the National Institute on Aging in 2012. As a K99/R00 grant recipient, he first became faculty in 2015 at Iowa State University and the University of Iowa in the Department of Neurology. As a Rutgers Presidential Diversity Initiative Faculty Scholar, he transitioned to Rutgers University in 2023. He examines why some older adults develop Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) versus others who remain cognitively healthy. To better understand risk profiles and potential therapeutics, he searches for disease biomarkers in CSF or blood products using proteomics, metabolomics, genomics, and other data-driven methods. He complements this approach with expertise in neuroimaging, immunity, endocrinology, nutrition, and both cognitive and affective domains.
