During the summer of 2023, the Texas A&M University Department of Animal Science was well represented at various state, national and international conferences where graduate students were able to present ongoing research. Aggies claimed multiple research awards as they traveled as far as Ireland this summer.

Dairy Cattle Welfare Conference
Fort Worth, TX
May 17-18, 2023

  • Douglas Duhatschek
    • Title: Associations of health and culling events with behavioral metrics of pre-weaned, pair-housed dairy calves

International Ruminant Reproduction Symposium 
Gallway, Ireland
May 28th - June 2nd, 2023

  • Rafael Paiva
    • Title: Embryo Mortality on Re-Check Diagnosis in Lactating Dairy cows Using Sample Based Pregnancy Tests
  • Odile Polanco Jimenez
    • Title: Comparison of the transcriptomes of embryonic tissue and uterine tissue in heifers that established pregnancy following transfer of an IVP embryo generated using semen from two sires with differing field fertility
  • Brette Poliakiwski
    • Title: Characterizing the Physiological Role of Prostaglandins during Late Embryonic Development in Cattle
  • Lacey Quail
    • Title: Survival analysis of pregnancy considering estrual activity by the time of embryo transfer in beef cattle
  • Sarah Singleton
    • Title: The Intricacies of Conceptus-Maternal Interactions Proposed by Parthenogenetic Beef Cattle Pregnancies
  • Damon Smith
    • Hormonal Concentrations in Different Sub-Species of Beef Cattle While Subjected to a Nutritional Challenge

Equine Science Society Symposium 
Grapevine, TX
June 6-9, 2023

  • Maggie Carter
    • Title: Influence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-1077 on the intestinal environment, gut permeability, and markers of systemic inflammation in horses fed a high starch diet
  • Grace Moore
    • Title: Influence of dietary Saccharomyces Cerevisiae fermentation product on cartilage metabolism in young exercising horses challenged with intra-articular lipopolysaccharide
    • Awards: 2nd place Graduate Student Award in the Nutrition Section
  • Brittany Silvers
    • Title: Extra-label bisphosphonate effects on bone turnover biomarkers in juvenile, exercising horses

American Society for Microbiology
Houston, TX
June 17, 2023

  • Kirsten Zwally
    • Title: Recovery and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiling of Salmonella enterica Serovars from Texas Broiler Chicken Farms
  • Vignesh Palanisamy 
    • Spotlight Talk: Shotgun metagenomics reveals a highly diverse and communal microbial network present in the drains of three beef-processing plants
    • Poster Title: Characterizing the dynamics of microbial interactions in the drains of beef-processing plants using Shotgun Metagenomics
  • Qiyue Chen
    • Title: Salmonella-induced microbiome profile in response to sanitation by quaternary ammonium chloride

North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture 2023 Annual Conference 
Las Cruces, NM
June 21, 2023

  • Carly Hoffmann
    • Title: Students’ Perceptions of an Experiential Learning Activity in a Livestock Feed Formulation Animal Science Course

Reciprocal Meat Conference 
St. Paul, Minnesota
June 25-28, 2023

  • MacKenzie Chapman
  • Lauren Lee
  • Audrey De La Zerda
  • Trent Schwartz
  • Ian Lovell
  • Sage Boleman
  • Kaylee Greiner
  • Sydni Borders
  • Nick Broz
  • Arlie Reeves
  • Augustus Harrison
  • Mansour Alnajrani
  • Tanner Wright

Poultry Science Association Annual Meeting 
Philadelphia
July 11, 2023

  • Aime Leandre Shimwa Mvuyekure
    • Title: Modeling the Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella Senftenberg During Simulated Low-Temperature Dry Rendering of Poultry Meals to Aid in Validating Food Safety

Society for the Study of Reproduction 
Ottawa, Canada
July 11-14, 2023

  • Arianna Lopez
  • Brooke McAnally
  • Carli Lefevre
  • Dallas Soffa
  • Joe Cain
  • Leslie King
  • Makenzie Newton
  • Robyn Moses
  • Sara Gurule

American Society of Animal Science 
Albuquerque, NM
July 16-20, 2023

  • Douglas Duhatschek
    • Title: Comparing the nutritional value and trade-off between sugars and starch of male-sterile and non-sterile sorghum hybrids.
    • Title: The effect of silage additives on male-sterile sorghum fermentation heat production and feed-out stability
  • Steven Gunari Lake
    • Title: Relationships among early life weight and growth among halfblood Bos indicus male calves and associations with carcass weight
  • Lacey Quail
    • Title: Cost and profit per pregnancy associated with estrous synchronization utilizing estrus detection and or fixed-time artificial insemination
  • Brittany Silvers
    • Title: Bisphosphonate Pharmacokinetics in Juvenile Horses
    • Awards: 2nd place in PhD II Poster Competition
  • Carly Hoffmann
    • Title: Undergraduate Student Perceptions of an Experiential Learning Activity in a Livestock Feed Formulation Animal Science Course
  • Dallas Soffa
    • Joseph P. Fontenot Travel Scholarship Presentation Title: Vaginal microbiomes of lactating dairy cattle bred utilizing timed artificial insemination or estrus expression
  • Audrey Earnhardt
    • Title: Evaluation of prenatal transportation stress on methylomics and transcriptomics in the stress axis tissues of mature Brahman cows
    • Awards: First Place PhD
  • Brittany Paris
    • Title: Bisphosphonate pharmacokinetics in juvenile horses
    • Awards: Second Place PhD
  • Brooke McAnally
    • Title: Characterization of boar reproductive tract microbiome prior to puberty attainment
    • Third Place MS Section 1
  • Kyle Hickman-Brown
    • Title: Bacterial community diversity in reproductive tissues and fetal fluids of pregnant gilts
    • Awards: Third Place MS Section 2
  • Bhuwan Shrestha
    • Evaluating the potential of a thermal imaging system to identify subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle.
  • Musah Muntari
    • Title: Impact of different vaccine formulations in reducing methane production in beef cattle
  • Erin Stockland (undergraduate)
    • Title: Influence of differing levels of concentrate on circulating cytokine concentrations in beef heifers
    • Awards: 2nd Place
  • MacKenzie Chapman
    • Antibody and cell-mediated responses associated with BVDV and interferon-gamma expression in reciprocal Angus-Brahman first generation crosses

International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 16-19, 2023

  • Zachariah Vice
    • Title: Investigation of Hydrophobic Properties of Silane-Treated Wood Through Micro-Topographical Analysis

Beef Cattle Short Course 
College Station, TX
August 7-9, 2023

  • Odile Polanco Jimenez
    • Title: Transcriptomic comparison between bovine sires of differing field fertility
  • Autumn Pickett
    • Title: Analysis of the Nasal Microbiota in Newly Received Feedlot Heifers According to Subsequent Incidence of Bovine Respiratory Disease
  • Jodi Cox
    • Title: Differences in Protein Supplementation Response in Bos taurus taurus (Angus) and Bos taurus indicus (Brahman)
  • Jordan Adams
    • Title: Satellite-Based Decision-Support Tool to Optimize Profitability and Environmental Stewardship of Grazing Cow-Calf Operations

Congratulations to all of our ANSC students on a job well done!