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Quail-Tech Research Team - Cooperating Scientists
Dr. Jessica Starkey - Muscle Biology
Dr. Jessica D. Starkey is an Assistant Professor of Meat and Muscle Biology in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. A native of northwestern Kansas, Dr. Starkey earned her B.S. (2001) in Animal Science and M.S. (2003) in Nutritional Beef Cattle Muscle Growth and Development from Kansas State University. Her Ph.D. is in Cell Biology from the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Starkey’s doctoral research program focused on skeletal muscle stem cell developmental plasticity in several different transgenic mouse models, including a novel murine model for Muscular Dystrophy.
Dr. Starkey joined the faculty at Texas Tech in January 2009. Her research now focuses on how nutrition, stress, ageing and disease affect the molecular regulation of pre and postnatal skeletal muscle growth and development. Her research includes work in economically important livestock species, transgenic mice and most recently, wildlife. Dr. Starkey teaches courses in muscle anatomy and animal growth and development at the undergraduate level as well as a graduate course in experimental techniques in meat chemistry and muscle biology.
Dr. Starkey is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the American Meat Science Association, the Plains Nutrition Council and Gamma Sigma Delta. She also serves as a member of the Texas Tech Institutional Biosafety Committee.
Dr. Jessica D. Starkey is an Assistant Professor of Meat and Muscle Biology in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. A native of northwestern Kansas, Dr. Starkey earned her B.S. (2001) in Animal Science and M.S. (2003) in Nutritional Beef Cattle Muscle Growth and Development from Kansas State University. Her Ph.D. is in Cell Biology from the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Starkey’s doctoral research program focused on skeletal muscle stem cell developmental plasticity in several different transgenic mouse models, including a novel murine model for Muscular Dystrophy.
Dr. Starkey joined the faculty at Texas Tech in January 2009. Her research now focuses on how nutrition, stress, ageing and disease affect the molecular regulation of pre and postnatal skeletal muscle growth and development. Her research includes work in economically important livestock species, transgenic mice and most recently, wildlife. Dr. Starkey teaches courses in muscle anatomy and animal growth and development at the undergraduate level as well as a graduate course in experimental techniques in meat chemistry and muscle biology.
Dr. Starkey is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the American Meat Science Association, the Plains Nutrition Council and Gamma Sigma Delta. She also serves as a member of the Texas Tech Institutional Biosafety Committee.