Researcher, a Utah native, working to solve world hunger

(Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP) In a Thursday, March 15, 2018 photo, professor of molecular biosciences Jon Oatley, right, talks with post-doctoral fellow Deqiang Miao in a laboratory at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash.Moscow, Idaho • After spending 10 years in Thailand as a child, Jon Oatley, director of the Center for Reproductive Biology at Washington State University, developed a passion for ending food insecurity around the world.

“There, the big culture was agriculture, as you can imagine — rural Nevada, lots of cattle ranching and other livestock,” Oatley said. “I decided that I wanted to be involved in that, and I think my father also wanted me to…