For an archive of previous years' accomplishments.
January 2022
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Meredith Harrison awarded a California Cattlemen's Association Scholarship
October 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Meredith Harrison was the runner-up for the Applied Animal Science Research Award by the Western Section Society of Animal Science
September 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Meredith Harrison received the Henry A. Jastro Award
- Stephanie McDonnell received the Henry A. Jastro Award
- Toni Duarte received the Henry A. Jastro Award
July 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Meredith Harrison awarded the Frank Rue Memorial Award by UC Davis
June 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Meredith Harrison awarded the James Delfino Scholarship by UC Davis
May 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Angelica Carrazco awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Reaching Award Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2021
March 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Bo Zhang awarded Henry A. Jastro Graduate Research Award
Publications
Bo Zhang and Dr. Timothy Hackmann publish A new pathway for forming acetate and synthesizing ATP during fermentation in bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, AEM-02959.
January 2021
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Meredith Harrison awarded a California Cattlemen's Association Scholarship
October 2020
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Linda Truong and Samantha Werth were awarded a CA ARPAS Memorial Scholarship for 2020 from the California Chapter of the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists. The scholarship acknowledges academic excellence related to research that benefits CA agriculture and society.
September 2020
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Toni Duarte received the Henry A. Jastro award
August 2020
Publications
- Catie McVey published Mind the Queue: A Case Study in Visualizing Heterogeneous Behavioral Patterns in Livestock Sensor Data Using Unsupervised Machine Learning Technique. Front Vet Sci
July 2020
Publications
- Juliana Candelaria and Dr. Anna Denicol published Ovarian preantral follicles are responsive to FSH as early as the primary stage of development, in the Journal of Endocrinology.
June 2020
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Toni Duarte received an Ursula Abbott Travel Award from the Department of Animal Science
May 2020
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Toni Duarte awarded the Swingle Fellowship from the Department of Animal Science
April 2020
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Carlyn Peterson awarded the Beatrice Oberly and S. Atwood McKeehan Fellowship-received for outstanding academic record and promise of productive scholarship
Publications
- Marie Stillway, Swee Teh published The effect of herbacide formulations and herbacide-adjuvant mixtures on aquatic food web species of the Sacramento -San Joaquin Delta, California, USA. Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Jiayi Qu, Hao Cheng published Exact Distribution of Linkage Disequilibrium in the Presence of Mutation, Selection, or Minor Allele Frequency Filtering. Frontiers Media SA
March 2020
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Kwangwook Kim is the recipient of the 2020 Midwest Section of the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Young Scholar Award, at the Annual 2020 Midwest ASAS-ADSA Meeting held in Omaha, Nebraska
February 2020
Publications
Carlyn Peterson, Frank Mitloehner published Effects of SOP Lagoon Additive on Gaseous Emissions from Stored Liquid Dairy Manure Sustainability. 12(4):1393. doi: 10.3390/su12041393
January 2020
Fellowships, Awards and Grants
- Kwangwook Kim is the recipient of the 2020 Midwest Section of the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Young Scholar Award, at the Annual 2020 Midwest ASAS-ADSA Meeting held in Omaha, Nebraska
Publications
- Juliana Candelaria and Anna Denicol published Characterization of isolated bovine preantral follicles based on morphology, diameter and cell number. Zygote. 2020;1-6. doi:10.1017/S0967199419000832
December 2019
Publications
- Jiayi Qu, Ed DePeters and James Fadel published A goal programming approach for balancing diet costs and feed water use under different environmental conditions. Dec 2019 Journal of Dairy Science
November 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Andrea DeRogatis and Linda Truong won the WPSA-USA Carpenter Essay award. This award will provide funding for them to attend the Word's Poultry Congress conference on August 16-20, 2020 in Paris, France.
Publications
- Cynthia Jinno, Elizabeth Maga, Annie King, Xiang Yang and Yanhong Liu published Enzymatically digested food waste altered fecal microbiota but not meat quality and carcass characteristics of growing-finishing pigs in Animals.
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Lauren Kovanda, Yanhong Liu published In Vitro Antimicrobial Activities of Organic Acids and Their Derivatives on Several Species of Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria. Molecules 2019, 24, 3770
October 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Carlyn Peterson received the Henry A. Jastro-Shields award
- Carlyn Peterson was awarded the Kutches Scholarship- recognized as an outstanding graduate student studying dairy nutrition.
Publications
- Michaiah Leal published along with Joel Van Eenennaam, Dr. Andrea Schreier and Dr. Anne Todgham, Diploid and triploid white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) differ in magnitude but not kinetics of physiological responses to exhaustive exercise at ambient and elevated temperatures. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
July 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Kaleiah Schiller received the 2019 California Wool Growers Association Scholarship for her research on identifying maternal traits in extensively managed ewes.
June 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Toni Duarte placed 3rd in the Graduate Student Research Competition (Master's Division) at the American Meat Association Reciprocal Meats Conference.
Publications
- Kwangwook Kim, Yijie He along with Elizabeth Maga and Yanhong Liu co-authored "Dietary supplementation of Bacillus subtilis influenced intestinal health of weaned pigs experimentally infected a pathogenic E. Coli" in the Journal of Animal Science.
- Sofia Egana-Labrin, Alejandra Figueroa along with Rodrigo Gallardo co-authored "Genotypic Characterization of Emerging Avian Reovirus Genetic Variats in California" in Sci Rep., 2019; 9: 9351
May 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Carlyn Peterson selected as the 2019 CANC Scholarship Award Presenter
- Carlyn Peterson received a Professors of the Future award for the class of 2018-19.
Publications
- Maci Mueller and Alison Van Eenennaam published "Comparison of gene editing versus conventional breeding to introgress the POLLED allele into the US dairy cattle population" in the Journal of Dairy Science.
- Jill Hagey along with Deanna Meyer and Elizabeth Maga co-authored "Fecal Microbial Communities in a Large Representative Cohort of California Dairy Cows". Frontiers in Microbiology
- Breanna Roque and Ermias Kebreab co-authored "Exogenous β-mannanase supplementation improved immunological and metabolic responses in lactating dairy cows" in J. Dairy Science, doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-15568
April 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Sarah Klopatek selected as a 2019-20 Professors for the Future Fellow.
- Maci Mueller won Third place in The International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR) Conference photo competition with her photo entitled "Editing".
- Carmen Banks won Second place in the graduate oral research competition for her work, "Prolactin receptors in the kidney: What regulates their expression in pigs?" Carmen also won First place in the elevator speech competition about the importance of MANRRS.
- Juliana Candelaria won First place in the graduate research poster competition for her work, "Follicle-simulating hormone receptor is expressed in bovine preantral follicles from primary to late secondary stage of development".
- Carlyn Peterson received the CANC Student Fellowship Award for her research conducted in the graduate group.
March 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Kwangwook Kim received Research Paper Award, 1st place (Graduate Student Oral Competition: PhD. Divisions) at the 2019 ADSA-ASAS Annual Midwest Meeting
Publications
- Michaiah Leal, Alison Van Eenennaam, Andrea Schreier and Anne Todgham co-authored "Triploidy in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanous): effects of acute stress and war acclimation on physiological performance". Science Direct
- Marie Stillway and Swee Teh co-authored "Effectiveness of Constructed Water Quality Treatment Systems for Mitigating Pesticide Runoff and Aquatic Organism Toxicity" in Pesticides in Surface Water: Monitoring, Modeling, Risk Assessment, and Management. ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1308. 2019. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2019-1308.ch022. Chapter 22, pp 435-449.
- Breanna Roque, Lyndsey Marsh, Ermias Kebreab and Matthias Hess co-authored "Effect of the macroalgae Asparagopsis taxiformison methane production and the rumen microbiome assemblage" in Animal Microbiome doi.org/10.1186/s42523-019-0004-4
February 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Sarah Klopatek and Emily Andreini were awarded the W.D. Farr Scholarships from the National Cattlemen's Foundation.
Publications
- Erika Pauson and Pablo Ross co-authored Paternal genome rescues mouse preimplantation embryo development in the absence of maternally-recruited EZH2 activity
- Brittany Davis (recent PhD graduate) and Anne Todgham co-authored Sensitivities of an endemic, endangered California smelt and two non-native fishes to serial increases in temperature and salinity: implications for shifting community structure with climate change
- Brittany Davis, Annelise Del Rio (Ecology Graduate Student) and Anne Todgham co-authored Combined effects of warming and hypoxia on early life stage Chinook salmon physiology and development
- Liza Gershony and Anita Oberbauer co-authored DLA class II risk haplotypes for autoimmune diseases in the bearded collie offer insight to autoimmunity signatures across dog breeds
- LIza Gershony and Anita Oberbauer co-authored "DLA class II risk haplotypes for autoimmune diseases in the bearded collie offer insight to autoimmunity signatures across dog breeds". CGE Journal
- Kwangwook Kim, Vivian Perng along with Yanhong Liu co-authored "Algae-derived β-glucan enhanced gut health and immune responses of weaned pigs experimentally infected with a pathogenic E. coli". Science Direct
January 2019
Fellowships, Awards & Grants
- Sarah Klopatek, Emily Andreini an Sheyenne Augenstein are recipients of the 2018-19 California Cattlemen's Association Scholarships
- Carlyn Peterson awarded the Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow through the Center for Educational Effectiveness for 2018-19.
- Liza Gershony received the Ann T. Bowling Fellowship fr 2018-19
Publications
- Kwangwook Kim, Vivian Perng and Yanhong Liu co-authored, Algae-derived β-glucan enhanced gut health and immune responses of weaned pigs experimentally infected with a pathogenic E. coli