Rob Knox is a professor in the area of swine reproductive physiology in    the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois where he has served as a state swine veterinary extension specialist since 1999. Rob received his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Animal Reproductive Physiology from the Department of Animal Science at the University of Nebraska. He has worked as a lab technician at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, as a Research Associate at the University of Missouri and Colorado State University, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture at Illinois State University. Dr. Knox has won several awards for teaching and extension work. Rob has been an invited speaker at numerous international and national conferences and has authored many scientific articles, proceedings, and extension publications. He has developed education and training programs for swine industry personnel in the area of male and female swine reproductive management. Dr. Knox works with graduate and undergraduate students in the research areas of gilt management, swine AI, housing effects on reproduction, and ultrasound diagnostics for reproduction, gonadotropin control of estrus and ovulation, and fertility of frozen swine semen. He has served as Domain editor for pig reproduction for the US Pork Center of Excellence, a representative to the National Pork Board swine educators committee, a committee member for the International Boar Semen Preservation Conference, and Chair of the animal systems extension team at the University of Illinois.