Subject Area:
Area(s) of Specialization:
- Comparative stress physiology, behavior, and immunology
Her first research projects involved understanding how housing and management conditions affect the behavior and stress responses in swine. Her research evolved into how stress affects the health and immune systems in other species, including laboratory rodents, beef and dairy calves, and poultry.
Dr. Hulbert’s research team studies:
- Development and validation of automated technologies to monitor health and welfare of domestic animals
- Understanding the effects of early-life stressors on nutritive and non-nutritive oral behaviors and immunity in calves
- Improving resilience to stressors and immunocompetence through housing, management, and feeding strategies in calves and pigs
- Determining biomarkers of stress and inflammation for predicting and identifying disease
