Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Scheffler Lab
Led by Tracy Scheffler · Food Science & Technology(unverified)
What we study
The Scheffler Lab studies meat science and muscle biology. A recent student project develops a new method to measure lipid oxidation (rancidity) in beef without gas chromatography; its papers cover beef quality audits and muscle metabolism.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- No coding
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Development of a Novel Method to Measure Volatile Lipid Oxidation
The study creates a new way to measure how beef fats become rancid without using gas chromatography. Students will expose muscle samples to a reagent, collect samples over two weeks, and compare the new method to the standard TBARS test.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 536
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Recent papers, explained
- Case Study: Electrophoretic separation of bovine myosin heavy chain in samples stored long term at −20°C
2026 · Applied Animal Science
Checks if long-term frozen beef samples can still be used for muscle protein analysis.
- National Beef Quality Audit—2022: Transportation, mobility, and harvest-floor assessments of targeted characteristics that affect quality and value of cattle, carcasses, and by-products from fed steers and heifers
2025 · Translational Animal Science
Evaluates cattle transport and harvest-floor conditions to improve beef quality.
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- National Beef Quality Audit – 2022: Instrument grading assessments of carcass characteristics of fed steers and heifers
2025 · Translational Animal Science
Measures beef carcass traits like fat thickness and ribeye area over a year.
- Feeding beta adrenergic agonists alters mitochondria metabolism in porcine skeletal muscle
2025 · Journal of Animal Science
Studies how beta-adrenergic agonists affect mitochondrial metabolism in pig muscle.
- National Beef Quality Audit-2022: Harvest-floor assessments of hide defects, carcass defects, and offal condemnations that affect value of carcasses and by-products from market cows and bulls
2024 · Translational Animal Science
Assesses hide and carcass defects in market cows and bulls to improve beef quality.
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