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Department of Animal Science
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305 Haecker Hall
1364 Eckles Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-6118

Phone: 612-624-2722
Fax: 612-625-5789



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Animal Science Seminars

Department of Animal Science seminars are held September through May on Mondays at 3:00 p.m. in Room 365 Haecker Hall. Everyone is welcome. Please join us.
 

Spring 2008

  Jan 28   * Carl Dahlen, Animal Sciences Doctoral student and Research Fellow, Northwest ROC - Twinning in the cattle industries: Double your pleasure
         
  Feb 4   * Nicolas Di Lorenzo, Animal Science Doctoral student - CANCELLED
         
  Feb 11   * Dr. Hugh Chester-Jones, Professor, Southern ROC - Raising commercial dairy heifers at SROC, Waseca: Management and research programs
         
  Feb 18   * Erika Shane, Animal Sciences Masters student - Composting 101
      * Martin Ruiz Moreno, Animal Sciences Masters student - Effects of vegetal extracts on in vitro fermentation by ruminal microbes
         
  Feb 25   * Dr. Hans-Joachim Jung, Adjunct Professor, USDA-ARS (Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics) - Impact of ferulates on grass cell wall digestibility: 25+ years of discovery to translational research
         
  Mar 3   * Greg Golombeski, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - Journal Club: Effect of cobalt supplementation during late gestation and early lactation on milk and serum measures
      * Daniela Blini, Animal Sciences Masters student - Identification of CD138 in different stages of B cells
         
  Mar 10   * Dr. Mark Rutherford, Associate Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences - Apoptosis in the intestine: Cryptosporidium in the epithelium with a caspase
         
  Mar 17   * SPRING BREAK - no seminar
         
  Mar 24   * Amy Hazel, Animal Sciences Masters student - Le rendez-vous Montbéliard: An expedition to France
      * Li Ma, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - Data analysis challenges in genome-wide SNP studies
         
  Mar 31   * Dr. Sandra Godden, Associate Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine - An update on colostrum management for dairy calves
         
  Apr 7   * Barry Visser, Dairy Nutritionist, Vita Plus Corporation and Animal Sciences Graduate - Packing in the profits: A survey of forage density and fermentation analysis across Minnesota and Wisconsin dairy farms
         
  Apr 14   * Dr. Mark Wilson, Reproductive Physiologist, Zinpro Performance Minerals - The conflicts between reproductive technologies and adoption of these procedures in swine production
         
  Apr 21   * Alex Drescher, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
      * Guilherme Marquezini, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
         
  Apr 28   * Christina Stoker-Howell, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
      * Jared Voge, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
         
  May 5   * Jim Dickrell, Associate Editor, Dairy Today - U.S. dairy: The next five years
         
  May 12   * Roberta Amaral, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
      * Sarah Schieck, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
         
  May 19   * Karen Lobeck, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA
      * Ran Song, Animal Sciences Masters student - topic TBA

Fall 2007

  
Sep 10
 
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Welcome to Animal Sciences
         
 
Sep 17
 
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Hayet Abbassi, DVM, PhD - Improvement of molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases: Example of avian metapneumovirus
         
 
Sep 24
 
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Jamie Larson, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - Embryonic loss in cattle: causes and effects
         
 
Oct 1
 
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Dr. Jerry Shurson, Department of Animal Science - Observations and challenges in Chinese pork production
         
 
Oct 8
 
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Mary Raeth-Knight, Animal Sciences PhD candidate - Journal club - topic TBA
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Brad Heins, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - Crossbreds of Jersey/Holstein compared to pure Holsteins for production, fertility, and body and udder measurements during first lactation

         
 
Oct 15
 
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John Garbe, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - Functional genomics of the pig pancreas
      * Dan Carlson, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - Development of tools for genome engineering
         
 
Oct 22
 
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Dr. Tom Molitor, Veterinary Population Medicine - Maternal influences on neonatal immunity in the pig
         
 
Oct 29
 
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Dr. Hugh Chester-Jones, Southern ROC - Raising commercial dairy heifers at SROC, Waseca: Management and research programs - CANCELLED
         
 
Nov 5
 
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Grant Crawford, Beef Feedlot Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension - Managing sulfur concentrations in feed and water for beef cattle
         
  Nov 12   * Dr. Jeff Bender, Veterinary Population Medicine - Zoonotic disease updates: Diseases in animals and people
         
  Nov 19   *

Dr. HanSoo Joo, Veterinary Population Medicine - Emerging viral diseases in pigs

         
  Nov 26   * Bhupi Juneja, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - A genome browser track for expressed sequence data
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Chia-Jung Hsieh, Animal Sciences Doctoral student - The structure, expression, and functional activities of the pig PDX-1 gene

         
  Dec 3   * Dr. Robert Lepley, TIS Group, Inc. - From animal science to pharma, geopolitics, and finance: An evolving career path
         
  Dec 10   * Mark Whitney, Assistant Extension Professor-Swine, U of M Extension - Use of distance-learning technology in swine extension programming
         
  Dec 17   * Carl Dahlen, Animal Sciences Doctoral student and Research Fellow, Northwest ROC - CANCELLED
         
  Dec 18   * Research Day - see flyer for details
         

 

 
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