NEWS AND EVENTS
- WELCOME: New faces in the beef and horse programs: Don Harper leading the beef operations, Marissa Fisher overseeing herd at Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center, and Amy McLean overseeing equine operations
- Dr. Ying Wang from Huaijun Zhou's lab was honored with an award from Changxing Wu's Fund of Avian Breeding and Genetics for her presentation at the World Poultry Congress in Beijing
RESEARCH
- Mike Miller coauthor of “Parallel evolution of the summer steelhead ecotype in multiple populations from Oregon and Northern California” in Conservation Genetics
- Richard Zinn coauthor of “Influence of Wheat Straw Pelletizing and Inclusion Rate in Dry Rolled or Steam-flaked Corn-based Finishing Diets on Characteristics of Digestion for Feedlot Cattle” in Asian-Australasian J Anim Sci.
OUTREACH AND TRAVEL
- Alison Van Eenennaam presented “Gene Editing: Breeding or GMO?” at National Institutes of Bioscience/ OECD sponsored meeting on Genome Engineering and the Future of Farming at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh in Scotland; her twitter site was highlighted in CAST Friday notes
- Huaijun Zhou gave 2 invited talks “FAANG Initiative in Poultry Genomics section” & “USAID Genomics to Improve Poultry in Small scale Poultry Production section” at the World Poultry Congress in Beijing
- Joseph Owen, Catalina Cabrera, & Lindsay Upperman, grad students in Van Eenennaam lab, wrote, filmed, edited, & produced a 3 minute video entry on gene editing entitled “Can’t Stop the Feeding” for the World Food Day Video Challenge