Jimena Laporta

Jimena Laporta is an Associate Professor of Lactation physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Dairy Science from UW-Madison (2014) and was on the faculty at the University of Florida before returning to Madison in 2020. Her research focuses on how environmental and nutritional factors influence mammary gland development, lactation, and long-term performance in dairy cattle, with an emphasis on perinatal programming, epigenetics, and early-life interventions in dairy calves for heat stress resilience.