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Leadership

G. Cliff Lamb, Acting Director

Cliff Lamb, Ph.D., is acting director for Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the state’s premier research agency in agriculture, natural resources and life sciences featuring 13 centers and faculty in 15 academic departments, a portfolio of more than 550 projects and more than $280 million in annual research expenditures.

Lamb grew up on a cattle operation in Zimbabwe, Africa and has extensive expertise in beef cattle management with a special emphasis on reproductive physiology.

Lamb was named as the agency’s acting director on Jan. 1. He also continues to serve as head of the Department of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, a role he has held since 2017. Under his leadership, the department has increased its presence in the livestock industry and its broad focus on applied and basic research.

Lamb also spearheads research efforts involving cattle adapted to subtropical/tropical environments to help further Texas and global beef cattle production. His research is aligned with improvements in pregnancy and development performance of cattle.

Prior to joining The Texas A&M University System, Lamb served as assistant director and professor at the University of Florida’s North Florida Research and Education Center in Marianna, Florida. Lamb has published 130 refereed journal articles, along with more than 58 Extension and research reports. His research programs have received more than $13.8 million in grant funds or gifts.

Lamb was elected a Research Fellow in the American Society of Animal Science and received the Kansas State University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Administration, and American Society of Animal Science Animal Management and Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Awards, among other honors.

Lamb earned a bachelor’s degree in animal science at Middle Tennessee State followed by his master’s and doctorate in reproductive physiology at Kansas State University.

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Executive Assistant Angela Bailey: angela.bailey@ag.tamu.edu

Elizabeth Parker, Associate Director for Operations and Strategic Initiatives

Elizabeth Parker, Ph.D., joined AgriLife Research in 2014 as chief veterinarian for the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, where her position included working with the AgriLife Research Director’s Office on funding requests and technical and operational responses. Since December 2017, Parker has served as the AgriLife Research international and strategic partnership specialist. With extensive Congressional, trade association and international experience, Parker built a distinguished career in agriculture policy prior to joining AgriLife. She worked on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture for Ranking Member Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) as the American Veterinary Medical Association’s American Association for the Advancement of Science 1999-2000 Congressional Fellow, then as professional staff for Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) and Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Parker worked on resource mobilization, global disease strategies and policy for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Parker earned a bachelor’s in biomedical science in 1987, a bachelor’s in veterinary medicine in 1990 and a doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1993. After graduation, she worked in private veterinary practice in Texas for six years before relocating to Washington, D.C. and beginning her science and agriculture policy career.

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Executive Assistant Angela Bailey: angela.bailey@ag.tamu.edu

Henry Fadamiro, Associate Director and Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Henry Fadamiro joined AgriLife Research in 2021. He is a world-class academic and administrator whose work at three land-grant universities instilled a deep knowledge of agriculture research administration, international program management and Extension service. He is a Rhodes Scholar, an inductee into the National Academy of Inventors and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Before joining AgriLife Research, Fadamiro served as Associate Dean for Research for the College of Agriculture at Auburn University and as Associate Director of Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. As Assistant Dean and Director of Global Programs for Auburn’s College of Agriculture, he led efforts to establish partnerships with academic institutions in Africa, Asia, Central/South America and Europe. Since 2003, he has also been a faculty member in Auburn’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology. Fadamiro earned his doctorate in entomology and pest management from the University of Oxford in England in 1995. Prior to that, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Federal University of Technology in Akure, Nigeria.

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Executive Assistant Angela Bailey angela.bailey@ag.tamu.edu

Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Associate Director

A public health scientist with expertise in community-based nutrition and physical activity intervention research, Dr. Rebecca Seguin-Fowler will provide administrative leadership for the organization’s social and behavioral intervention research initiative. She also will serve as the Healthy Texas community health research director, leading and fostering closer integration of AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension efforts. Her current research focuses on understanding how people’s social, food and physical activity environments influence behavior change and maintenance—particularly in at-risk populations and settings, such as low-income families and rural communities. Combining her interests in behavioral theory, health communications and the context in which people develop, change, and maintain health behaviors, Seguin-Fowler has co-developed comprehensive curricula and trainings for evidence-based health promotion programs to benefit midlife and older women. To date, more than 4,000 health educators in 48 states have been trained to implement these community-based physical activity and nutrition programs in predominantly non-urban areas. Seguin-Fowler has secured more than $12M in competitive funding to support her research, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has received numerous awards throughout her career including the Mead Johnson Award from the American Society for Nutrition, the Citation Abstract Excellence Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, and a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. A registered dietician, Seguin-Fowler received her bachelor’s degree in clinical exercise physiology from Boston University, and a master’s degree in nutrition communication and a doctorate in food policy and applied nutrition from Tufts University in Boston.

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r.seguin-fowler@ag.tamu.edu