NEWS AND EVENT
- GOAT DAY tomorrow, UCD Conference Center
- Alison Van Eenennaam quoted in Scientific American article on “Gene-Edited Animals Face U.S. Regulatory Crackdown”
- Yanina Bogliotti (ABGG graduate student-Ross lab) presented at the finalists round of the International Embryo Technologies Society Graduate Student Research Competition and received the runner-up award
- Ricardo Perecin (Visiting Student-Ross lab) received the runner up prize for Best Poster Presentation at the International Embryo Technologies Society
- Pablo Ross received the first Scientist Early Career Achievement Award from the International Embryo Technologies Society foundation at the 43rd Annual Conference of IETS held in Austin, TX
- Colin Kern was awarded Cobb Vantress Inaugural Travel Award at the Plant & Animal Genome Meeting
- Action Jackson continues to be highlighted, this time in the hoofcare blogspot
RESEARCH
- Richard Zinn co-author of “Influence of flake density and tempering on the feeding value of steam-flaked corn for feedlot cattle” in Journal of Applied Animal Research
OUTREACH AND TRAVEL
- Erica Scott, grad student in Jim Murray’s lab, spoke on “Annotating long non-coding RNA in the horse transcriptome ” at the XXV Plant & Animal Genome Conference, San Diego
- Frank Mitloehner presented “Understanding the ecological trade-offs in integrated dairy farming systems” at the US Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, WI and “Environmental foot printing in dairy” at the Dairy Strong conference attended by ~1800, most being dairy producers
- Welcome James Mushi, a Borlaug LEAP fellow from Tanzania, to Zhou lab
- Mike Mienaltowski in Texas for the Grayson Jockey Club Research Found grant panel
- Anna Denicol attended the International Embryo Technologies Society meeting in Texas