Seminars
Kara Stewart
"Lactation: Is it worth it?"
Dr. Carol Lorenzen, International Marketing Specialist for Livestock and Meat. USDA Livestock and Poultry Program
"USDA Livestock and Poultry Program - Opportunities and Current Projects"
Aileen Keating
"Life or Death?: Unscrambling the ovarian response to chemical exposure"
Dr. Terry Houser, Iowa State University
"Foodservice bacon quality: current and future research"
Clyde Campbell, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Iowa State University Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology
“In vivo lineage reprogramming across germ layers; Exploring the boundaries of cellular plasticity“
Dermot Hayes
"Economic Forces Driving the Iowa Pork Industry"
Dr. Dustin Boler, Meat Scientist
Topigs Norsvin
"Fresh Pork Research - What’s old becomes new again"
Caitlyn Bruns, PhD, Ph.D., Geneticist
DNA Genetics, Columbus NE
“Make It Better: Creating a Maternal Direction from Producer Feedback”
Geetu Tuteja
"Integrating multi-dimensional genomics data to build regulatory maps of placental development"
Dr. Jennie Hodgen
Senior Account Manager of Food Animal Resource Management Team at Merck Animal Health
"Where Sustainability meets Meat Science"
Gerd Bobe
Dept. of Animal Science and Range Science
Oregon State University
"Identification of early disease biomarkers in dairy cows using omics-techniques: Opportunities and potential pitfalls"
Logan Johnson
"Exploring peroxiredoxin’s relationship to meat quality"
Jim Kaufman, PhD, Professor of Immunology
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
and Visiting Researcher, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
“Generalists & specialists: a new view of how MHC molecules respond to disease”
Beth Zuber
"Early postmortem metabolism and its relationship with ultimate pH in pork"
William Taylor, Master’s Student
Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science, Laboratory of Dr. Kenneth Stalder
"Utilizing digital images to evaluate accuracy and repeatability of body condition score in cull sows"
Dr. Chris Calkins
Professor, University of Nebraska
"Bringing Science to the Art of Dry-Aged Beef"
Ryan Jeon, PhD Candidate
Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science, Laboratory of Dr. Jack Dekkers
"Proliferation of blood mononuclear cells in young, healthy piglets after mitogen stimulation, as a possible indicator of disease resilience in pigs"
Dr. Jim Dickson
"The past is never dead. It’s not even past"
Austin M. Putz, PhD, Affiliate Assistant Professor
Iowa State University Department of Aimal Science and Geneticist, Hypor (Hendrix Genetics)
“Current research in Hypor and Hendrix Genetics”
Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein
"Beef cattle welfare during transport: Research and regulations"
Matt Schulte
"Can nutritional practices impact beef quality characteristics?"
Grace Moellerm, Master’s Student
Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science, Laboratory of Dr. Kenneth Stalder
“Estimating the repeatability and reproducibility of subjectively evaluated conformational traits in replacement gilts”