Dr. Darrell Lynn Sparks

Dr. Darrell Lynn Sparks

Title

  • Associate Dean & Professor

Contact Information

dls5@msstate.edu
Office: 662-325-5307
Bost 201-E

Overview

Education

  • Mississippi State University, Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), Engineering
  • Mississippi State University, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering

Publications

Year Publications
2022

Crisler, G., Hernandez, C. G., Orr, A., Davis, R., Schauwecker, T. J., Johnson, J. C., Sparks, D. L., Brown Johnson, A. E., Wilding, K., Navarathna, C., Mlsna, T. E. 2022. Remediation of Aqueous Phosphate Agricultural Runoff Using Slag and Al/Mg Modified Biochar . Processes 10(8):1561.

2020

Wilson, A. E., Sparks, D. L., Knott, K., Willard, S. T., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2020. Simultaneous Choice Bioassays Accompanied by Physiological Changes Identify Civetone and Decanoic Acid as Pheromone Candidates for Giant Pandas. Zoo Biology 39(3):176-185.

2020

Terrell, K., Ballman, A., Brown Johnson, A. E., Childers, C. V., Knowles, S., Meredith, A. N., Sparks, D. L. 2020. Environmental Contamination and Unusual Snake Mortality in an Urban National Wildlife Refuge. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 15(3):652-665.

2019

Wilson, A. E., Sparks, D. L., Knott, K., Willard, S. T., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2019. Field Air Analysis of Volatile Compounds from Free-Ranging Giant Pandas. Ursus 29(2):75-81.

2018

Wilson, A. E., Sparks, D. L., Knott, K., Willard, S. T., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2018. Implementing Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) as a Tool to Detect Volatile Compounds Produced by Giant Pandas in the Environment. PLOS-ONE 13(12).

2018

Wilson, A. E., Sparks, D. L., Knott, K., Willard, S. T., Kouba, A. J., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2018. Behavioral, Semiochemical and Androgen Responses by Male Giant Pandas to the Olfactory Sexual Receptivity Cues of Females. Theriogenology 114:330-337.

2018

Williams, C. L., Dill-McFarland, K., Sparks, D. L., Kouba, A. J., Willard, S. T., Suen, G., Brown, A. E. 2018. Dietary changes during weaning shape the gut microbiota of red pandas (Ailurus fulgens). Conservation Physiology 6(1).

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2016

Reid, R. X., Sparks, D. L., Williams, W. P., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2016. Single corn kernel aflatoxin B1 extraction and analysis method. Natural Resources 7:405-410.

2016

Williams, C. L., Dill-McFarland, K. A., Vandewege, M. W., Sparks, D. L., Willard, S. T., Kouba, A. J., Suen, G., Brown, A. E. 2016. Dietary shifts may trigger dysbiosis and mucous stools in giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Frontiers in Microbiology 7.

2015

Womack, E. D., Sparks, D. L., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2015. Aflatoxin M1 in milk and milk products: A short review. World Mycotoxin Journal

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2014

Womack, E. D., Brown, A. E., Sparks, D. L. 2014. A recent review of non-biological remediation of aflatoxin-contaminated crops. Journal of the science of food and agriculture 94(9):1706-14.

2012

Smith, W. E., Shivaji, R., Williams, W. P., Luthe, D. S., Sandoya, G. V., Smith, C. L., Sparks, D. L., Brown Johnson, A. E. 2012. A maize line resistant to herbivory constitutively releases (E) -beta-caryophyllene. Journal of economic entomology 105(1):120-8.

Extension Publications

Year Publications

Graduate Students

  • Ashley Meredith

Awards & Honors

  • Joey Raines Distinguished MSCL Employee Award
    Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory
  • Excellence in Teaching - Teacher of the Year Award
    MSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Excellence in Teaching - Upper Division Undergraduate Teaching Award
    MSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • 2020 DAFVM Superior Faculty Award
    Regions Bank
  • 2019 Faculty Service Award
    CALS/MAFES
  • ALMS SRAI Travel Scholarship
    Society of Research Administrators International
  • 2015 Excellence in Graduate Advising Award
    Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology

Society Memberships

  • American Chemical Society
  • American Oil Chemists' Society
  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Association of Public Health Laboratories
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • Society of Research Administrators International
  • The Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta