and serum lipids and their effects on 

 changes in the arterial endothelial cell. 



R. A. Cady , statistical geneticist, is 

 researching ways to make the dairy 

 farmer a more efficient manager by 

 improving the decision making pro- 

 cess and by using computer simula- 

 tion to investigate the influence of 

 management techniques on the genetic 

 evaluation of dairy cattle for quanti- 

 tative traits. 



N. R. Deuel's research focuses on 

 documentation of the biomechanics of 

 locomotion in riding horses, especially 

 the area of kinematics which deals 

 with aspects of motion apart from con- 

 sideration of mass and force. She used 

 cinematic methods for kinetic analy- 

 sis of several gaits in superior equine 

 athletes, and illustrated the different 

 gaits with computer-drawn diagrams. 



W. C. Skoglund served the Uni- 

 versity and State of New Hampshire as 

 a teacher, researcher and administra- 

 tor for a period of 31 years, first as head 

 of the Poultry Husbandry Department 



W. C. Skoglund, Animal and 

 Nutritional Sciences 



(1950-1963) then as chairman of the 

 Department of Animal Sciences until 

 hisretirement in 1981. Skoglund made 

 his mark by giving aggressive, consis- 

 tent leadership to the department and 

 the poultry, dairy and livestock inter- 

 ests in the state. In 1986 the W. C. 

 Skoglund Livestock Activity Center 

 was named in his honor. 



Biochemistry 



Virtually any field of science today 

 consists of scientists working in rather 

 narrow areas — a necessity for making 

 original contributions. Natural toxins, 

 blood clotting, and research involving 

 bacteria, yeast and corn using genetic 

 engineering and recombinant DNA 

 technology are some of the recent areas 

 of investigations in this department. 



M. Ikawa has specialized in toxic 

 chemicals produced by microorgan- 

 isms which are potentially poisonous 

 to humans, with emphasis on those 

 released by microscopic red tide algae 

 found in coastal waters that cause the 

 condition known as paralytic shellfish 

 poisoning. Ikawa, collaborating with 

 J. J. Sasner, Jr. (Zoology], developed a 

 highly sensitive bioassay for measur- 

 ing tiny quantities of the shellfish toxin 

 and then worked out an alternative 

 method which was sensitive to indi- 

 vidual toxins for both monitoring and 

 general research purposes. Ikawa and 

 his group have also discovered that 

 blue green algae, which inhabit fresh- 

 water, also produce toxic blooms, and 

 perhaps surprisingly, that different 

 strains of this same species produce 

 unlike forms of the toxin. 



G. C. Klippenstein (department 

 chairman, 1975-1977) was a basic sci- 

 entist and an authority on the chemis- 

 try of enzymes. Initially he worked 

 with hemerythrin. an iron containing 

 protein (metalloprotein) found in some 

 invertebrates. Together with W. A. 



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