Department News and Updates! December 20, 2013

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Happy Holidays!
  • Frank Mitloehner featured in the weekly AgAlert “meat vs. miles” climate change debate
  • Meats Lab featured on UC Davis Homepage under “Gift Ideas”

RESEARCH

  • Anita Oberbauer, Janelle Belanger, Gonzalo Rincon, Angela Cánovas Alma Islas-Trejo Rodrigo Gularte-Mérida, & Juan Medrano author “Bovine and murine tissue expression of insulin like growth factor-I” in Gene
  • Mike Miller coauthor on “A resource of single-nucleotide polymorphisms for rainbow trout generated by RAD sequencing of doubled haploids” in Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Katie Fisch, Brian Mahardja, & Bernie May coauthor “Hybridization between delta smelt and two other species within the family Osmeridae in the San Francisco Bay-Delta” in Conservation Genetics
  • Kat Tomalty,  Molly Stephens, Melinda Baerwald, Karrigan Bork, Mariah Meek, and Bernie May author “Genetic Considerations for fall-run Chinook salmon during the San Joaquin River Restoration” in San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • Mike Miller visited the Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources in Vairao, Portugal to present a seminar and work on a research collaboration
  • Frank Mitloehner attended the National Academy of Sciences IOM Committee on 'A Framework for Assessing the Health, Environmental, and Social Effects of the Food System' & was elected sub-committee chair for the environmental working group