Accomplishments 2013

For an archive of previous years' accomplishments.

December  2013

Publications

Fellowships, Awards & Grants:

  • Grace Berryhill awarded Office of Graduate Studies Travel award to attend the American Institute of Cancer Research meeting in Bethesda, MD.
  • Caitlin Cooper awarded Office of Graduate Studies Travel award to attend the Lactoferrin conference in Rome, Italy.


November 2013

Publications

Fellowships, Awards & Grants

  • Bryan Welly  Awarded the California Beef Cattle Improvement Association Scholarship.

 

October 2013

Publications

Fellowships, Awards & Grants:

  • Caitlin Cooper: Awarded the Genevieve Spik Award at the International Conference on Lactoferrin
  • Jill Soderstrom: Awarded the Kutches Memorial Scholarship from the Association of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS)


September 2013

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July 2013

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June 2013

Publications

  • Graham, B., and C. Standridge. Return of the Red Wolf. N.p.: Point Defiance Zoo Society, 2013. Print.

Fellowships, Awards & Grants:

  • Jill Hagey: Fellowship winner of  Leland Roy Saxon and Georgia Wood Saxon.
  • Jennie Hughes: Awarded Larry Ewing Memorial Trainee Travel Fund at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in Montreal


May 2013

Fellowships, Awards & Grants:

  • Emma Wils-Plotz: Awarded 1st place in the poster competition at the California Animal Nutrition Conference with her poster
  • entitled "Dietary threonine and purified fiber alter immune-related gene expression in chickens challenged with coccidiosis"
  • Clayton Neumeier: Awarded 2nd place in the poster competition at the California Animal Nutrition Conference with his poster
  • entitled "Effect of dietary nitrate supplementation on enteric methane and nitrous oxide emissions."
  • Rachel Kurzbard: Awarded 3rd place in the poster competition at the California Animal Nutrition Conference with her poster
  • entitled "Effects of zinc oxide on broiler health during a coccidiosis challenge."
  • Gabriela Acetoze: Scholarship Winner at CANC Conference. Presented a talk entitled: "Liver Mitochondrial Efficiency
  • of Two Lineages of Angus Bulls with High and Low Residual Feed Intake (RFI)."

 

April 2013

Publications:

Fellowships, Awards & Grants:

  • Yanina Bogliotti: Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for the 2013-2014
  • academic year.
  • Rachel Kurzbard: People's Choice Award at the Interdisciplinary Graduate & Professional Student Symposium, University of
  • California, Davis
  • Krista Jacobsen: 2013 American Cheese Society Student Scholarship
  • Ashley Rowson: Received top prize for oral presentation at Interdisciplinary Graduate & Professional Student Symposium
  • on discussing the following study: Rowson AR, Manjarin R, Trott JF, Cardiff RD, Hovey RC. Development of a novel in
  • vitro and in vivo model of human breast cancer.


March 2013

Publications:

  • Iseri VJ, Klasing KC. Dynamics of systemic components of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) immune system following activation by Escherichia coli; implications for the costs of immunity. Dev Comp Immunol. 2013 March 13; 40 (3-4): 248-257.
  • doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2013.02.005. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Franco R, Mitloehner, F. Bacterial population dynamics during the ensiling of Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and subsequent exposure to air. J Applied Microbiology. 2013 March 25; doi: 10.1111/jam. 12179.
  • Cooper CA, Garas Klobas LC, Maga EA, Murray JD. Consuming transgenic goats’ milk containing the antimicrobial protein lysozyme helps resolve diarrhea in young pigs. PLoS ONE 8(3). March 2013; e58409.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058409.
  • Vanklompengerg MK, Manjain R, Trott JF, McMicking HF, Hove RC. Late gestational hyperprolactinemia accelerates mammary epithelial cell differentiation that leads to increased milk yield. J Anim Sci. 91(3):1102-11; 2013 Mar; doi: 10.2527/jas.2012-5903. [Epub ahead of print 2013 Jan 7]

Fellowships, Awards & Grants:

  • Grace Berryhill: Awarded George Lee Fellowship for 2013-2014 academic year.


January 2013

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