PhD Student
University of Illinois
José Oliveira Jr received his B.S. degree of Animal Science at Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), in Lavras, Brazil. He completed his M.S. in Ruminant Production and Nutrition at UFLA as well. José is a PhD Student at UFLA and currently is doing his “sandwich period” as a Visiting Research Scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His areas of research focused on feedlot nutrition, neonatal and fetal programming, nutrigenomics, and meat quality.