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Last published 2025
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Sara Orlowski

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015); University of Arkansas System (2020–2025); Poultry Research Institute (2024); University of Virginia (2011)

Faculty Researcher

15 h-index 52 pubs 804 cited

  • Chickens
  • Animals
  • Male
  • Heat-Shock Response
  • Hot Temperature
  • Water
  • Dietary Supplements
  • Animal Feed
  • Meat
  • Poultry Diseases
  • Gene Expression
  • Avian Proteins
  • Diet
  • Random Allocation
  • Muscle, Skeletal

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Sara Orlowski's research investigates the physiological responses of broiler chickens to environmental stressors, with a particular focus on heat stress and its impact on animal health, welfare, and meat production. Her work has explored how varying light intensity programs affect broiler welfare and performance, and how hypoxia can exacerbate muscle abnormalities like woody breast myopathy. Orlowski has also examined the effects of heat stress on gene expression related to water homeostasis in different chicken lines and studied the composition of ileal microbial communities under normal and high ambient temperatures.

Her research extends to understanding the genetic basis of disease resistance in broilers, including SNP-based breeding for ascites resistance. She has investigated the expression of nutrient transporters in the jejunum of modern broilers and their wild ancestors under cyclic heat stress, as well as the impact of heat stress on feeding-related neuropeptides in different broiler populations. Orlowski's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 15 with 52 total publications and 734 total citations. She has collaborated extensively with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Sami Dridi, Nicholas B. Anthony, and Travis Tabler.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 52
  • Citations: 804

Selected Publications

  • Circulating hormonal and gene expression profile in heat-stressed broilers divergently selected for high or low water efficiency (2026)
    Poultry Science DOI OpenAlex
  • The effect of feed and water provision strategies on broiler breeder pullet performance and welfare (2025)
    Frontiers in Veterinary Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Judgment bias, fear, and stress responses of Red Junglefowl and Athens Canadian Random Bred chickens (2025)
    Frontiers in Animal Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of heat stress on ileal epithelial barrier integrity in broilers divergently selected for high- and low-water efficiency (2025)
    Frontiers in Physiology 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of heat stress on the hypothalamic expression profile of water homeostasis‐associated genes in low‐ and high‐water efficient chicken lines (2024)
    Physiological Reports 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of heat stress on the hypothalamic expression of water channel- and noncoding RNA biogenesis-related genes in modern broilers and their ancestor red jungle fowl (2024)
    Brain Research 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Editorial: Environmental impacts in domestic birds: towards homeostasis, efficiency and well-being (2023)
    Frontiers in Physiology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Amniotes co-opt intrinsic genetic instability to protect germ-line genome integrity (2023)
    Nature Communications 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of sunrise/sunset lighting on corticosterone levels in Coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix) (2022)
    Discovery The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences DOI OpenAlex
  • SNP-based breeding for broiler resistance to ascites and evaluation of correlated production traits (2022)
    Hereditas 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ileal microbial composition in genetically distinct chicken lines reared under normal or high ambient temperatures (2022)
    Animal Microbiome 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of heat stress on cyto(chemo)kine and inflammasome gene expression and mechanical properties in isolated red and white blood cells from 4 commercial broiler lines and their ancestor jungle fowl (2022)
    Poultry Science 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Titration of dietary isoleucine and evaluation of branched-chain amino acid levels in female Cobb 500 broilers during a 22- to 42-day finisher period (2022)
    The Journal of Applied Poultry Research 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Interactions of the branched-chain amino acids. 1. Influence of dietary isoleucine and leucine on the valine requirement of male Cobb MV × 500 broilers for a 29- to 42-day finisher period (2022)
    The Journal of Applied Poultry Research 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Failure of excess leucine to impact live performance and carcass traits in male and female Cobb MV × 500 broilers during a 15- to 32-day grower period (2022)
    The Journal of Applied Poultry Research 7 citations DOI OpenAlex

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