Department News & Updates!

6/15/2018

OUTREACH & TRAVEL

Amy McLean gave a talk on "The

impact of research on facilitating human

behavior change to improve working

equid welfare" at the Annual AAEP

Equitarian Initiative Meeting in

Snowmass, CO.

Matthias Hess presented on

“Untangling the highly efficient biomass-

degrading machinery of anaerobic rumen

fungi using metatranscriptomics and

synthetic biology approaches” at

the Rowett-INRA 2018, Gut Microbiology:

No longer the forgotten organ.

NEWS & EVENTS

Congratulations to the graduating

class of 2018! Thank you to everyone who

participated in the graduation

ceremonies. Special thanks to Chris Akins,

Ed DePeters, Russ Hovey, Lisa Holmes,

Emma Martinez, Kat Jackson, Katherine

Livingston, Grace Dell’Olio, Jennie Buse

and the Farm Crew.

Find past “Department News and Updates” at http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/ens/news/index.html

RESEARCH

Anne Todgham, Andrea Schreier,

Joel Van Eenennaam, Brigitte Clark and

Michaiah Leal (PhD student, Todgham

Lab) published “The effects of warm

temperature acclimation on constitutive

stress, immunity, and metabolism in

white sturgeon (Acipenser

transmontanus) of different ploidies” in

Comparative Biochemistry and Pysiology

Part A: Molecular & Integrative

Physiology.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/

S1095643318300825?via%3Dihub

David Bunn published “Awareness

and Practices Relating to Zoonotic

Diseases Among Smallholder Farmers in

Nepal” in EcoHealth.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10393-018-

1343-4

Yanhong Liu published “Dietary

spray-dried plasma improves intestinal

morphology of mated female mice under

stress condition” in Journal of Animal

Science and Technology.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29881635 - Dr. Hess at the University of Aberdeen, Scottland -

- Dr. McLean at the AAEP Equitarian Initiative Meeting, Colorado -