NEWS & EVENTS
- Hope you enjoyed a Happy Thanksgiving!
- Holiday Gala Tonight, 12/6, 6:00 PM. We did sell out so if you missed your chance, we will see you next year!
RESEARCH
- Amy McLean, and others published “Dumb or smart asses? Donkey’s cognitive capabilities (Equus asinus) share the heritability and variation patterns of’s cognitive capabilities (Homo sapiens)”.of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications. 2019. September-October, Jrnl of Vet Behavior, 33: 63-74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jveb.2019.06.007
- Mike Miller and others published “Genome scan for selection in South American chickens reveals a region under selection associated with aggressiveness”, Livestock Science, 225(7):135-139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2019.05.002
OUTREACH & TRAVEL
- Richard Blatchford gave a talk on “Innovation in Cage-Free Egg Production” at the California Egg Quality Assurance Program in Modesto and Ontario, CA
- Richard Blatchford, was one of 3 academics invited to an industry round table on the humane treatment of spent laying hens, sponsored by the American Humane Association in Washington, D.C.
- Richard Blatchford gave a talk on “Smart Farming: How technology can work for you”, at the California Poultry Federation’s Quality Assurance Program in Modesto, CA.
- Richard Blatchford spoke to a group of Cochran Fellows visiting from Moldova, about “Laying Hen Production and Welfare.
- Juan Medrano attended and presented “Insights into the bovine milk microbiome”, at the REDBIO Biotechnology Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Juan Medrano and Angela Cánovas (Univ of Guelph) offered a two-day course “Introduction to Functional Genomics & -Omics Technologies in Livestock” as part of REDBIO and the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) in Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov 18-19, 2019
- Maci Mueller presents her poster alongside Alison Van Eenennaam at the California Cattlemen’s Association in Reno, NV
- Dan Sehnert and Frank Mitloehner gave a talk at the California Cattlemen’s Association in Reno, NV
- Maja Makagon participated in Crucial Conversations Training, a two-day workshop hosted by UC ANR.
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