Chris Calvert
Professor of Animal Science
cccalvert@ucdavis.edu


Office
1255 Meyer Hall
752-1269



 
Degrees:
1978 PhD Purdue University Animal Science
1975 MS Montana State University Animal Science
1974 BS Montana State University Animal Science
Research Interests:

Control of protein and energy metabolism, especially as related to growth, lactation, and immune response; protein synthesis; nutrition and gene expression; systems analysis.
Awards:
2003 UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Professional Societies:
The Nutrition Society
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Comparative Nutrition Society
American Society of Animal Science
The Metabolomics Society
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Animal Biology, Nutrition, & Avian Sciences  
Publications:
  • Johnson, H. A., K. C. Klasing, and C. C. Calvert. 2003. Challenging the assumptions in estimating protein fractional synthesis rate using a model of rodent protein turnover. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol., 537:221-237
  • Humphrey, B. D., C. C. Calvert, and K. C. Klasing. 2004. The ratio of full length IgY to truncated IgY in immune complexes afects macrophage phagocytosis and the acute phase response of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos). Dev. Comp. Immunology, 28:665-672.
  • Humphrey Brooke D., Charles B. Stephensen, Chris C. Calvert, Kirk C. Klasing. 2004 Glucose and cationic amino acid transporter expression in growing chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 138:515525.
  • Bertolini, M., A. L. Moyer, J. B. Mason, C. A. Batchelder, K. A. Hoffert, L. R. Bertolini, G. F. Carneiro, S. L. Cargill, T. R. Famula, C. C. Calvert, R. D. Sainz and G. B. Anderson. 2004. Evidence of increased substrate availability to in vitro-derived bovine foetuses and association with accelerated conceptus growth. Reproduction,128:341354.
  • Calvert, C. C., and R. L. Baldwin. 2004. Mathematical Models: Metabolism. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Science, edited by Wilson Pond and Alan Bell. Marcel Dekker, Inc. pp. 606-608.
  • Bertolini M, Batchelder CA, Carneiro GF, Valadez LE, Famula TR, Calvert CC, Sainz RD and Anderson GB. 2005. Transplacental xylose transfer in bovine pregnancies. Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, 33(2):183-193.
  • Selvaraj, R. K., E. A. Koutsos, C. C. Calvert and K. C. Klasing. 2006. Dietary lutein and fat interact to modify macrophage properties in chicks hatched from carotenoid deplete or replete eggs. J. Anim. Phys. Anim. Nutr. 90: 7080.
  • Humphrey, B. D., C. B. Stephensen, C. C. Calvert and Kirk C. Klasing. 2006. Lysine deficiency and feed restriction independently alter cationic amino acid transporter expression in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). Comp. Biochem. Phys., Part A, 143: 218-227.
  • Renquist, B.J., J.W. Oltjen, R.D. Sainz, and C.C. Calvert. 2006. Effects of age on body condition and production parameters of multiparous beef cows. Journal of Anim. Sci. 84:1890-1895.
Laboratory Personnel:
1410 Meyer Hall

Lauraine Rivier, PhD Candidate

Teaching Interests:
Biochemistry and Metabolism (physiological chemistry), energy metabolsim, amino acid and nitrogen metabolsim.
Courses:
ABI 102 Animal Biochemistry and Metabolism Fall
ABI 103 Animal Biochemistry and Metabolism Winter
NUT 257 Selected Topics in Nutritional and Hormonal Control of Nitrogen Metabolism Fall
MCP 210C Adv. Phys. (Quest lectures, Prof. T. Adams in charge) Spring