Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, School of Information Sciences
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Affiliate, Illinois Natural History Survey
Recent Publications
Benjamin, N. R., Madrigal, G., Ishida, Y., Catchen, J., Allen, K. L., Pepin, B., & Roca, A. L. (2026). Genomic Validation of PERV-C-Free Pigs to Support Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation, 33(1), Article e70109. https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.70109
London, E. W., Roca, A. L., Ishida, Y., Latif, T., Novakofski, J. E., & Mateus-Pinilla, N. E. (2026). Odocoileus virginianus PRNP sequencing reveals AF (Q95G96/H95G96) advantage over AC (Q95G96/Q95S96) against chronic wasting disease. Veterinary research, 57(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-026-01752-8
Neumann, G. B., Tarlinton, R., Korkuć, P., Gaffney, P. M., Viaud-Martinez, K. A., Urbaniak, S., Nobuta, K., Dayaram, A., Mulot, B., Ternes, K., Alquezar-Planas, D. E., Roca, A. L., Jern, P., Singleton, C. L., & Greenwood, A. D. (2026). Multi-generational koala pedigree analysis reveals rapid changes in heritable provirus load associated with life history traits. Nature communications, 17(1), Article 345. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66312-8
De Cahsan, B., Sandoval Velasco, M., Westbury, M. V., Duchêne, D. A., Strander Sinding, M. H., Morales, H. E., Kalthoff, D. C., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Portela Miguez, R., Roca, A. L., Greenwood, A. D., Johnson, R. N., Lott, M. J., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2025). Road to Extinction? Past and Present Population Structure and Genomic Diversity in the Koala. Molecular biology and evolution, 42(4), Article msaf057. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf057
Au, W. C., Dures, S. G., Ishida, Y., Green, C. E., Zhao, K., Ogden, R., & Roca, A. L. (2024). Lion Localizer: a software tool for inferring the provenance of lions (Panthera leo) using mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Heredity, 115(2), 166-172. Article esad072. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad072