Dr. Douglas D. Rhoads is a University Professor in Biological Sciences and the Director of the campus-wide interdisciplinary graduate program in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Arkansas. He received his Ph.D. degree at Kansas State University in 1986. His research mainly focuses on prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomics, molecular genetics, evolutionary processes affecting gene structure and regulation, developmental genetics, genetics and genomics of metabolic diseases of poultry in ascites, and microbial genomics of pathogenicity in bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis and other diseases affecting broiler chickens.