Meet the IHA team
World class researchers and scientific leaders of The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture work in three synergistic areas of focus, precision nutrition, responsive agriculture and healthy living. Meet our team members below.
IHA Leadership
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Teresa A. Davis
Ph.D., D.F.A.S.N., F.A.S.A.S.
Director of the IHA
Teresa Ann Davis, Ph.D., D.F.A.S.N., F.A.S.A.S., is the Director of Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, the world’s first research institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease…
Faculty Scientists
USDA-ARS Scientists
Research Staff
Postdoctoral Researchers
Operations Staff
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Arin Reeder
Assistant Director for Operations
Arin Reeder joined the Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, in 2022 as Assistant Director for Operations. She manages the implementation and coordination of all projects and activities within the IHA, overseeing strategic initiatives from development through…
IHA Members
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Beth Racine
Dr.P.H., R.D.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at El Paso Center Director and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Associate Department Head for Nutrition Extension
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Brian King
Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head, Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism
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Chaodong Wu
Ph.D.
Professor of Nutrition, Presidential Impact Fellow, and Texas A&M AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow
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Daniel Leskovar
Ph.D.
Professor and Center Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas and Uvalde
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Holli Leggette
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
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Hong Liang
Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. Professor; Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering and Multidisciplinary Engineering
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Jeff Tomberlin
Ph.D.
Professor, AgriLife Research Fellow, Presidential Impact Fellow and Director, National Science Foundation Center for Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming
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Kurt Zhang
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition; Director, Rigor and Reproducibility Core at Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences & Technology
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Luis Tedeschi
Ph.D.
Professor, Animal Nutrition; Texas A&M AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow; Chancellor EDGES Fellow
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Michael Polymenis
Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Reza Ovissipour
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology
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Robert Chapkin
Ph.D.
Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, University Faculty Fellow, and NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator
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Srividhya “Sri” Iyer
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
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William L. Rooney
Ph.D.
Regents Professor, Borlaug-Monsanto Chair in International Crop Improvement, AgriLife Faculty Fellow, Sorghum Breeding & Genetics
Affiliate Members
- Srinivasulu Ale
- Giri Athrey
- Gurjinder Baath
- Muthukumar Bagavathiannan
- Fuller Bazer
- Salvatore Calabrese
- Oral Capps
- Rodolfo Cardoso
- John Cason
- Joydeep Chakraborty
- Jaehyun Cho
- Luis Cisneros-Zevallos
- Yuri Clements Daglia
- Jorge DaSilva
- Youjun Deng
- Senarath Dharmasena
- Xuejun Dong
- Kim Dooley
- Fugen Dou
- Steven E. Riechman
- Paul Feldman
- Sandun Fernando
- Delbert Gatlin
- Vishal Gohil
- Nuria Gomez-Casanovas
- Andy Herring
- Chris Hollenbeck
- Amir Ibrahim
- Tazim Jamal
- Jaehak Jeong
- Russell Jessup
- Vijay Joshi
- Eunsung Kan
- Mikhailo Kolomiets
- Holli Leggette
- Pingwei Li
- Zong Liu
- Shuyu Liu
- Xingmao Ma
- Kranthi Mandadi
- Grace Melo
- Jake Mowrer
- Genhua Niu
- Wesley Osburn
- Reza Ovissipour
- Devendra Pandeya
- Vlad Panin
- Sushil Paudyal
- Jean-Philippe Pellois
- George Perry
- James Petrick
- Ky Pohler
- Michael Polymenis
- Kiran R Gadhave
- Nithya Rajan
- Juliana Rangel
- Xudong Rao
- Keerti Rathore
- Waltram Ravelombola
- Jackie Rudd
- Stanley Samonte
- Michael Satterfield
- Endang Septiningsih
- Stephen B. Smith
- Gerald Smith
- Shyamal Talukder
- Lee Tarpley
- Luis Tedeschi
- Michael Thomson
- Gary Voelker
- Rosemary Walzem
- Xingguo Wang
- Aruna Weerasooriya
- Tryon Wickersham
- Jenny Wu
- Ximing Wu
- Guoyao Wu
- Linglin Xie
- Wenwei Xu
- Qingwu Xue
- Yvette Yu Zhang
- Azlan Zahid
- Lanying Zeng
- Ke Zhang
- Xiuren Zhang
- Shuyang Zhen
