Dr. Gerald C Shurson is currently a professor of  Swine Nutrition at UMN. His main research interests include Life Cycle Assessment of feed ingredients, Biosecurity of feed ingredient supply chains, Measurement and mitigation strategies for African Swine Fever virus in feeds, Applied swine nutrition and management, Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), Systems biology, Nutrient recycling, Nutritional value and characteristics of rendered animal by-products, Organic food waste, Use of food and agricultural wastewater streams to produce microalgae for animal feed, Pork quality and safety, and Manure management and odor reduction in swine facilities.