Achievements
PhD students Jimena Ibagon and Natalia Fanelli were selected to receive two prestigious fellowships: Jimena received the Mitchell fellowship and Natalia received the Baker fellowship. Drs Mitchell and Baker were long time professors in our Department and they both made numerous contributions in the field of Monogastric nutrition. It’s a great honor for Jimena and Natalia to receive these fellowships as they both enter the final year of their PhD studies.
On April 2nd, Minoy Cristobal successfully defended his PhD dissertation which had the title "Nutritional value of a new type of soybean meal for chickens and pigs and the impact of synthetic amino acids in diets for growing pigs". Yeonwoo Kim successfully defended his Masters Thesis on April 10th about Energy values in pistachio shell powder, soybean meal and soybean hulls fed to growing pigs, gestating sows, and lactating sows". Congratulations to both of them.
Conferences
Doctor Stein gave 2 conferences in April:
- April 19th at the Global Dairy Platform. What is next for protein quality in research and policy? GCP Webinar, about: "Protein quality of food proteins: Towards improved amino acid nutrition"
- In April 21st at the College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Webinar, he talked about: "Calcium, Phosphorus, and phytase in diets for growing pigs".
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications:
Ruiz-Arias, N. C., S. A. Lee, H. H. Stein. 2025. The growing area within the United States has only minor impact on digestible and metabolizable energy, and standardized total tract digestibility of phosphorus in full-fat soybeans fed to growing pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology 324, 116335. doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2025.116335.