Department News and Updates! May 21, 2015

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • A big thank you for assisting Decision Day for Transfer Students at the ARC Pavilion: Ed DePeters, Trish Berger, Tom Famula, Lynn Martindale, Kathryn Jackson, Emma Martinez, Naomi Cholst, Meghan Foote, Fannie Chiang, Kathleen Furtado, & Nicole Anderson for ANS/AEE/ANM majors. Anne Todgham worked the table for the Marine and Coastal Science major
  • Lydia Garas’s interns, working in Elizabeth Maga’s lab, Kathleen Furtado, Udyam Kumar, & Maire Rayburn, presented their research projects at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference; Udyam also presented his poster at the Stanford Undergraduate Research Conference

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • Richard Blatchford reported on the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply research project's final results at the Colorado Egg Producers Annual Meeting in Westminster CO
  • Francine Bradley has CDFA contract renewed & taught Game Fowl Health Assurance (GFHA) Classes and Continuing Ed classes in Tulare, Lodi, American Canyon, Santa Maria, & Lodi; she was joined by CAHFS pathologists
  • Erin Flynn & Brittany Bjelde (PhD students in Anne Todgham’s lab) spent the day at Natomas Charter School speaking with 7th and 8th graders about the impacts of climate change on Antarctic fishes

RESEARCH

  • Yanina Bogliotti, James Chitwood and Pablo Ross co-authors: “Comparison of different fertilisation media for an in vitro maturation-fertilisation-culture system using flow-cytometrically sorted X chromosome-bearing spermatozoa for bovine embryo production”  in Reproduction, Fertility and Development