Achievements

Jerubella Abelilla defended her Ph. D. dissertation on April 17. The topic was "Fermentation and energetic value of fiber in feed ingredients and diets fed to pigs."

Two days later, Vanessa Lagos defended her Master's thesis, "Requirements for digestible calcium by growing pigs." Vanessa will remain with our lab to work on her Ph. D.

  

 

Charmaine Espinosa was awarded the Mitchell Fellowship in Animal Nutrition for the 2018-2019 academic year. This fellowship "recognizes excellent graduate students who are specializing in animal nutrition in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois."

Su A Lee has received a Wilson G. Pond International Travel Award. She will use it to attend the 14th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs (DPP2018), to be held in Brisbane, Australia from August 21-24.

Congratulations to our very talented lab members!

New experiments

Molly began a study of ileal and total tract digestibility of energy and carbohydrates in hybrid rye fed to growing pigs.

Minoy started an experiment on the effect of decreasing crude protein levels after weaning on growth performance and fecal scores of pigs.

Travel and visitors

Hannah went to Saint Joseph, MI to receive a three day training on our new LECO machine at the LECO headquarters.

On April 17, Dr. Casey Bradley and Shelby Corray from DSM visited to talk about some research we're working on with them as well as what DSM is working on in the area of monogastric nutrition. While here, they also joined us in celebrating Dr. Stein's birthday!

We also had a visit from Yojaine Perez Hernandez, the head researcher in Bromatology, Physiology and Microbiology from the Instituto de Investigaciones Porcinas (Swine Research Institute) in Havana, Cuba. He presented some aspects or his research program in Cuba, and had a tour of our labs and the campus.

Publications

Mathai, J. K., J. K. Htoo, M. Wiltafsky, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of various heat treatments on concentrations of digestible and metabolizable energy and on amino acid digestibility in soybean meal fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):25-26 (Abstr.)

Abelilla, J. J. and H. H. Stein. 2018. Degradation of dietary fiber in the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine of growing pigs fed corn- or wheat-based diets without or with microbial xylanase. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):81 (Abstr.)

Lee, S. A., C. L. Walk, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Comparative digestibility and retention of calcium and phosphorus by gestating sows and growing pigs fed low- and high-phytate diets without or with microbial phytase. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):83 (Abstr.)

Lagos, L. V., C. L. Walk, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Requirement for digestible calcium at different dietary concentrations of digestible phosphorus indicated by growth performance and bone ash of 50 to 85 kg pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):130-131 (Abstr.)

Espinosa, C. D., S. R. Fry, J. L. Usry, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Copper hydroxychloride improves growth performance and reduces diarrhea frequency of weanling pigs fed a corn-soybean meal diet. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):131-132 (Abstr.)

Campbell, J. M., J. D. Crenshaw, J. Polo, D. Mellick, M. Bienhoff, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Chemical analysis of formaldehyde treated spray dried plasma and effects on weaned pig growth performance when included in diets. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):138 (Abstr.)

Campbell, J. M., J. D. Crenshaw, J. Polo, D. Mellick, M. Bienhoff, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Impact of formaldehyde treated pig feed containing spray dried plasma on weaned pig growth performance. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):138-139 (Abstr.)

Rodriguez, D. A., S. A. Lee, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of Dakota Gold and conventional distillers dried grains with solubles on wean to finish growth performance and carcass characteristics of pigs fed diets provided as pellets or in a meal form. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):141-142 (Abstr.)

McGhee, M. L. and H. H. Stein. 2018. Standardized ileal digestibility of amino acids in three sources of hybrids of rye and in barley, wheat, and corn fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):142 (Abstr.)

Casas, G. A. and H. H. Stein. 2018. Young Scholar Presentation: Nutritional value of rice coproducts fed to pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):143 (Abstr.)

Munoz Alfonso, C. J., L. Blavi, J. N. Broomhead, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Comparison between a novel phytase and a commercial phytase on growth performance and bone measurements in diets fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):147-148 (Abstr.)

Soltwedel, K. T., F. B. Sandberg, W. B. Kwon, H. H. Stein, S. J. England, M. R. Bible, T. M. Fakler, and J. Y. Jacela. 2018. Amino acid digestibility of a modified corn byproduct (Gold Pro) with and with a multi-enzyme supplement (CORE) when fed to weanling pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):150 (Abstr.)

Rundle, C. M. and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of Sangrovit® Extra on apparent ileal digestibility of amino acids, crude protein, acid hydrolyzed ether extract and starch by weanling pigs fed corn-soybean meal diets. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):152 (Abstr.)

Navarro, D. M. D. L., E. M. A. M. Bruininx, L. de Jong, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of inclusion rate of high fiber dietary ingredients on concentration of digestible and metabolizable energy in mixed diets fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):159 (Abstr.)

Navarro, D. M. D. L., E. M. A. M. Bruininx, L. de Jong, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of inclusion rate of high fiber dietary ingredients on apparent ileal, hindgut, and total tract digestibility of dry matter and nutrients in mixed diets fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):160 (Abstr.)

Blavi, L., J. N. Broomhead, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of a novel phytase on growth performance, bone measurements, and Ca and P digestibility in diets fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):163 (Abstr.)

Lee, S. A., C. D. Espinosa, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Digestibility of amino acids, energy, fat, and fiber and digestible and metabolizable energy in low-oil distillers dried grains with solubles fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):172-173 (Abstr.)

Rodriguez, D. A., S. A. Lee, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Digestibility of amino acids, fiber, and fat and concentrations of digestible and metabolizable energy in two sources of distillers dried grains with solubles fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):173-174 (Abstr.)

Espinosa, C. D. and H. H. Stein. 2018. High-protein distillers dried grains with solubles produced using a novel front-end-back-end fractionation technology has greater nutritional value than conventional distillers dried grains with solubles when fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):174 (Abstr.)

Casas, G. A. and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effects of different levels of full fat rice bran or defatted rice bran on growth performance and carcass quality of pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):174-175 (Abstr.)

Casas, G. A., D. A. Rodriguez, and H. H. Stein. 2018. Chemical composition and digestibility of energy, dry matter, amino acids, and fiber in wheat middlings and red dog fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):175-176 (Abstr.)

Lagos, L. V. and H. H. Stein. 2018. Effect of drying method of ileal digesta on the digestibility of crude protein and amino acids by pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 96(Suppl. 2):181 (Abstr.)