Title: Department News and Updates: February 22, 2019

The Aggie Classic Sale of Lambs and Goats will be held at the Cole A Facility on campus tomorrow.
Genetics and Genomics major, Laurel Jackson and Animal Science major Sabin Marquardt, earned UC Davis equestrian’s first ever United Equestrian Conference weekly honors in meets against Texas A&M and Delaware State.
The research of graduate student, Emily Andreini, is featured in an article in Beef Magazine.

Faculty and students attended the 2019 World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA.
Huaijun Zhou was invited to speak at the Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics in Cicco, Italy.
Francine Bradley attended the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta and participated in the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) Executive Committee meeting.
Ermias Kebreab presented on ration formulation software development at the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Alison Van Eenennaam presented on “How misinformation about agriculture threatens sustainability and innovation” at the Workshop on Evidence-based Farm and Food Policy in an Era of Fake News in Melbourne, Australia, and on “Food Animal Species: The Importance of Product Risk-based Regulation of Breeding” in the Session on Gene Edited Livestock and Regulatory Stalemates at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Ryan Bourbour, Breanna Martinico, and Josh Hull published “Feather mercury concentrations in North American raptors sampled at migration monitoring stations” in Ecotoxicology.
Annelise Del Rio (PhD student in Ecology), Brittany Davis (recent PhD graduate from Animal Biology) and Anne Todgham co-authored "Combined effects of warming and hypoxia on early life stage Chinook salmon physiology and development” in Conservation Physiology.
Brittany Davis (recent PhD graduate from Animal Biology) and Anne Todgham co-authored "Sensitivities of an endemic, endangered California smelt and two non-native fishes to serial increases in temperature and salinity: implications for shifting community structure with climate change” in Conservation Physiology.
Lisa Lit and Anita Oberbauer co-authored “Perceived infallibility of detection dog evidence: implications for juror decision-making” in Criminal Justice Studies.
Liza Gershony, Janelle Belanger-Sandoval, Myly Le (undergrad intern) Tom Famula and Anita Oberbauer co-authored “DLA class II risk haplotypes for autoimmune diseases in the bearded collie offer insight to autoimmunity signatures across dog breeds” in Canine Genetics and Epidemiology.
Kwangwook Kim and Yanhong Liu published “Nutritional Intervention for the Intestinal Development and Health of Weaned Pigs” in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.