Department News and Updates! February 7, 2014

RESEARCH

  • Luis Moraes, Jim Fadel, Anders Strathe, & Ermias Kebreab coauthors of “Prediction of enteric methane emissions from cattle” in Glob Change Biol
  • Pablo Ross, James Chitwood, Jan Roser, & Gerri Meyers-Brown coauthors on “RNA-Seq Transcriptome Profiling of Equine Inner Cell Mass and Trophectoderm” in Biology of Reproduction
  • Ermias Kebreab coauthor of “Trends of greenhouse gas emissions by dairy cattle in México between 1970 and 2010” Anim. Prod. Sci
  • Alma Islas, Angela Canovas, Gonzalo Rincon, & Juan Medrano coauthor “Molecular Phylogeny and SNP Variation of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus), Brown Bears (U. arctos), and Black Bears (U. americanus) Derived from Genome Sequences” in J. Heredity

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • Francine Bradley represented the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA) Board of Directors at the International Production and Processing Expo in Atlanta & staffed the WPSA booth
  • Jan Carlson, Dana Welch, Krista Jacobsen, Ed DePeters, Jim Murray, Russ Hovey, Abbas Ahmadi, Romeo Capell, Kara Ortega, Jose Villaseñor, & Mark Rubio, key for hosting the annual UCD Goat Day!
  • Francine Bradley hosted hosted Dr. Antonio Mario Penz, Jr., and wife, Denise.   Antonio received his Ph.D. with Dr. Kratzer and after a long academic career in Brasil, is now Global Strategic Accounts Director, Cargill Animal Nutrition
  • Kent Parker ran a successful Aggie Classic Prospect Pig Sale; thanks to Jose Villaseñor, & Mark Rubio for set up
  • Trish Berger, Elizabeth Maga, & Dan Sehnert tour the Integrative Genetics & Genomics recruits through ANS animal facilities