NEWS AND EVENTS
- Kristina Weber awarded the Baker Award from Beef Improvement Federation—a first for UC Davis
- John Eadie wins the National Blue-winged Teal award from the North American Waterfowl Management Plan Committee
- Elizabeth Robb & Tom O’Hare, grad students in Mary Delany lab engaged
- John Eadie receives prestigious Ducks Unlimited Research/Technical 2012 Wetland Conservation Achievement Award
- Qian Wang ABG grad student in Frank Mitloehner’s lab, won 1st price in the North American Alltech research competition
OUTREACH AND TRAVEL
- Cass Tucker gave an invited talk to the Western College of Veterinarian Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan
- Alison Van Eenennaam genomics video for Beef Magazine beefmagazine.com/selection-tools/what-value-genomics
- Mary Delany on NIFA review team at VA Tech for Dept Animal and Poultry Sciences
- Tuan Poy, faculty member in the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia hosted in Frank Mitloehner’s lab for 9 months
RESEARCH
- Louis Moraes, Peter Robinson, & Jim Fadel coauthor “A linear programming model to optimize diets in environmental policy scenarios” in J Dairy Science, Mar 2012—highlighted article
- Anita Oberbauer coauthor on “Identification of a novel idiopathic epilepsy locus in Belgian Shepherd dogs” PLoS ONE Mar 2012
- Jim Fadel coauthor of “Comparison of acrylamide intake from western and guideline based diets using probabilistic techniques and linear programming” in Food and Chemical Toxicology Mar 2012