Department News and Updates! April 29, 2016

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Welcome Jenny Gunter to the Animal Science/Food Chain Cluster!  Jenny comes to us from the Primate Center & has been on campus for 12 years 

RESEARCH

  • Dan Chase, Erin Flynn and Anne Todgham co-authored "Survival, growth and stress response of juvenile tidewater goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi, to interspecific competition for food" in Conservation Physiology
  • Angela Canovas, Alma Islas-Trejo and Juan Medrano, co-authors in  “Parallel responses of human epidermal keratinocytes to inorganic SbIII and AsIII” published in Environmental Chemistry
  • Cass Tucker has 2 papers in the top 10 papers listed by J of Dairy Sci on tail docking in cattle in response to the National Milk Producer Federation announcement that tail docking dairy cattle will be banned under its assurance scheme

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • Allen Petty & Anita Oberbauer helped judge the FFA State Competition in Fresno
  • Alison Van Eenennaam presented “What is the sustainable choice?” Food, Sustainability & Innovation Lecture Series, Genome Canada in Vancouver
  • Frank Mitloehner wrote a blog, which is now published in the UC Davis Blog site on Livestock and Climate change
  • Mandi Finger & Andrea Schreiergave invited presentations at the annual Interagency Ecological Program meeting entitled "Longfin Smelt Coastwide Population Genetics"   & "Variable Patterns of Population Structure Among White Sturgeon Spawning Drainages"
  • Alison Van Eenennaam presented “Four Legs, Two Legs, No Legs: What Does Science Tell Us About the Best Sources of Sustainable Protein?” at California Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Annual Conference
  • Kelly Chanthavixay attended the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) BioSamples workshop held at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, United Kingdom