Department News and Updates! October 31, 2014

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Little “I” Livestock Show Dec 6

RESEARCH

  • Scott Brandl, Andrea Schreier, Bernie May, & Melinda Baerwald coauthors of “Ten real-time PCR assays for detection of fish predation at the community level in the San Francisco Estuary–Delta” in Molecular Ecology Resources

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • The Research Team of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry held a research team meeting & training at the University of Ghana the first week of October. Huaijun Zhou & David Bunn led training sessions
  • David Bunn also went to Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania to repeat the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry training with the Tanzania Team. The Team Leader in Tanzania is Professor Amandus Muhairwa
  • Frank Mitloehner speaker at the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef in Sao Paolo, Brazil as is Kim Stackhouse, UCD ANS alum
  • David Bunn participated in the All Africa Animal Agriculture Conference, held at the Jomo Kenyatta Convention Center in Nairobi, Kenya—themes underscored opportunities for smallholder farmers across the continent