Janeen L. Salak-Johnson received her Ph.D. from Texas Tech
University and an NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Psychoneuroimmunology
at the University of Minnesota. She was on the faculty at the University of
Illinois in the Department of Animal Sciences until 2017. She then joined the
faculty at Oklahoma State University in 2018 and holds the Temple Grandin
Endowed Professorship in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences. Her
research focuses on maternal-fetal interactions on stress physiology,
the brain–gut–immune axis, and the well-being of future progeny utilizing basic and
translational sciences. She has attained a national and international
reputation as a leading scholar in stress physiology and animal well-being,
serves on numerous national and international advisory boards and many task
forces, and is actively involved in AAALAC International.
