Graduate Student News
Meet the new officers of the ADS Graduate Student Association
Madison ‘Mikayla’ Dycus
PhD student: Microbiome Bioinformatics
Hunter Perez
MS student: Ruminant Nutrition and Microbiology
Savannah Locke
PhD student: Swine Nutrition & Extension
Amanda Warner
PhD student: Animal Breeding and Genetics
Vice President of Marketing
Molly Smith
PhD student: Physiology of Reproduction
Contest Winner
Shanmathi Ramasubramanian: Karumbaiah Lab
3rd place Poster Presentation at Regenerative Engineering & Medicine workshop: REMagine: Engineering Tomorrow’s Medicine
Summer Research Grant
Scholarships
Clint Lee:
-CAB (Certified Angus Beef) Colvin Graduate Scholarship
-NAMI (North American Meat Institute) Graduate Merit Scholarship
Both won in the same year, these scholarships are highly competitive and sought after. Clint is the first graduate student at UGA in recent memory to win either.
Fellowship Award
Jing Gao: Phibro Animal Health Graduate Fellowship
The purpose of the fellowship is to support top doctoral students in their research related to animal nutrition and health. Recipients will be selected from students in a wide range of schools and colleges conducting basic and applied research in animal health in such areas as agriculture and veterinary medicine, and well as emerging fields.
Foundation Scholarship Winner
ARCS Foundation Scholarship Award Winner
Contest Winner
Sponsorship
National Award
Scholarship
Yaochao Zheng: Communication of Research and Scholarship Grant
Research Presentation
Research Presentation
Andrea Osorio-Doblado presented her research at the International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology in Chicago this week. Her research presentation was entitled, “Effect of abrupt transition from high concentrate diets to endophyte free tall fescue and alfalfa mixed hay.”
Research Presentations
Research Presentation
Carmen Burner presented her research at the American Society of Animal Science Meeting in Calgary in July. Her research presentation was entitled, “Evaluation of low-cost cow-side tests in developing a selective dry cow therapy program."
Research Presentation
Alejandra Alvarez Munera presented her research at the American Society of Animal Science Meeting in Calgary in July. Her research presentation was entitled, "DHGLMF90: A software tool using double hierarchical generalized linear models for estimating the genetic heterogeneity of residual variance.”
Research Presentation
Molly Smith presented her research at the American Society of Animal Science Meeting in Calgary in July. Her research presentation was entitled, “Evaluating the relationship between subcutaneous backfat thickness and sperm morphology in young beef bulls.”
Research Presentation
Amanda Warner presented her research at the American Society of Animal Science Meeting in Calgary in July. Her research presentation was entitled, “Streamlining the acquisition and analysis of digital images for the assessment of horn fly abundance."
Research Presentation
Lucas Goncalves presented his research at the American Society of Animal Science Meeting in Calgary in July. His research presentation was entitled, “Impact of luteal blood perfusion and estrus expression on pregnancy rates of beef cows exposed to embryo transfer."
Research Presentation
Mikayla Dycus presented her research at the American Society of Animal Science Meeting in Calgary in July. Her research presentation was entitled, "Utilizing buccal swabs as a substitute for ruminal fluid for characterizing the microbiome of Angus bulls."
Research Presentation and Travel Award Winner
Masum was also awarded the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative (AG2PI) Student Conference Travel Award to attend ASAS24.
Fellowship Program Selection and Award Winner
Selected for UGA Future Faculty Fellowship
Also, Morgan was runner-up for the NSF CMaT (Cell Manufacturing Technologies) 3-Minute Thesis Competition.
Meeting and Conference Roundup
ADS/RBC Research Symposium
1st Place – Sarah Schantz, Ph.D. Candidate, Mentor: Dr’s. Frank West & Kylee Duberstein
Evaluation of Neurological and Cognitive Recovery in Response to a Proprietary Neuroprotective Agent in a Swine Model of Traumatic Brain Injury
Streamlining the Acquisition and Analysis of Digital Images for the Assessment of Horn Fly Abundance
Oxidative Stress in the Remaining Muscle after Volumetric Muscle Loss Contributes to Impaired Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and is Attenuated by SS-31
Neuritogenic Glycosaminoglycan Hydrogels Promote Functional Recovery after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Inflammation-induced extracellular matrix disruption and blood-brain barrier breakdown after severe traumatic brain injury
Binary Wavefront Manipulation using an Epi-detected SHG
Plant Exosomes-like Nanovesicles as a Novel Drug Delivery Shuttle System
Application of Novel Data-Driven Brain Parcellation for Traumatic Brain Injury in a Porcine Model
American Meat Science Association Reciprocal Meats Conference, June 2024 in Oklahoma City, OK
Clint Lee (MS Stelzleni, Meat Judging Coach)
-Placed in Top 10 out of 101 students in Processed Meat Judging
-Started term (24-25) as President of the Student Board of Directors for AMSA
-Started term (24-25) on Intercollegiate Meat Coaches Committee – National Division Member Director
Cameron Catrett (MS 2024 Stelzleni)
-Won 2nd place in a tough Masters Division Research Presentation Competition with “Long-term frozen storage effects on ground beef originating from steers fed an omega-3 enriched finishing diet”
M. Junaid Nawaz (PhD Stelzleni)
Presented “Effects of citrus fiber on texture and water holding capacity of wooden breast chicken nuggets”