Department News and Updates! March 16, 2012

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Eranda Rajapaksha & Saumya Wickramasinghe, Animal Biology grad group students highlighted on the UC Davis homepage under Campaign for UC Davis

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • Ermias Kebreab presented at Procter and Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati on ‘Development of Mathematical Models for Nutrition and Metabolism’
  • Frank Mitloehner presented on Beef Sustainability webinar on Drovers cattle network
  • Jim Murray traveling in Germany on grant review 
  • Frank Mitloehner in youtube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7skiCCu_IQ  and attending the UN FAO Life Cycle Assessment meeting in Rome as the U.S. representative 

RESEARCH

  • Ermias Kebreab & Vermont colleagues submitted USDA grant on ‘A Decision-Support System to Enhance Organic Dairy Farm Sustainability’
  • Juan Medrano coauthor of “Genome Scans for Transmission Ratio Distortion Regionsin Mice” in Genetics Feb 2012