Achievements

On March 25, Neil Jaworski successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis on "Utilization of Energy in High-Fiber Diets Fed to Pigs." Congratulations, Neil!

In last month's newsletter, we noted that Caroline González-Vega had been selected to receive the Dr. Tim S. Stahly Outstanding Swine Nutrition Midwest Graduate Student Award. At the Midwest meeting, she was presented with that award as well as the Animal Science Young Scholar Award for her research accomplishments. We're very proud of her achievements and know she will go on to do great things in her career.

Travel

Dr. Stein and members of the lab attended the Midwest Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science from March 14–16 in Des Moines, Iowa. Caroline, John, Laura, Neil, Diego, and Gloria gave oral presentations, and Neil also presented a poster.

Dr. Stein was at the University of Alberta as a committee member on the PhD committee for Mr. Xun Zhou. Mr. Zhou successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Nutritional Value of Low-Fibre and High-Fat Canola Co-Products in Pigs" on March 2nd, 2016. While at the University of Alberta, he also gave a seminar for graduate students and faculty entitled "Digestibility of Ca in Feed Ingredients and Requirements for Digestible Ca by Pigs". At the Midwest meeting, he gave an invited presentation entitled "Evaluating Protein Quality of Human Foods using the Pig as a Model". Finally, on March 24 he visited Cargill Animal Nutrition in Elk River, MN and gave a presentation titled "Amino acid digestibility in feed ingredients fed to pigs and reasons for variability in estimates for amino acid digestibility".

Publications

Stein, H. H. 2016. Evaluating protein quality of human foods using the pig as a model. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):20 (Abstr.)

Jaworski, N. W., M. C. Walsh, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Effects of fiber, a direct-fed microbial, and feeding duration on ileal and total tract digestibility of energy and nutrients by pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):73-74 (Abstr.)

Jaworski, N. W., M. C. Walsh, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Effect of a 3-Strain Bacillus-based direct-fed microbial on relative tissue gene expression in nursery and finishing pigs fed low- or high-fiber diets. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):83 (Abstr.)

González-Vega, J. C., C. L. Walk, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Requirements for digestible Ca by growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):101 (Abstr.)

González-Vega, J. C., C. L. Walk, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Digestible calcium requirements for 25 to 50 kg pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):101 (Abstr.)

Mathai, J. K., Y. Liu, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Amino acid digestibility in dairy proteins compared with plant proteins. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):104 (Abstr.)

Merriman, L. A., C. L. Walk, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Effect of fat sources on ATTD of minerals. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):104 (Abstr.)

Navarro, D. M. D. L., N. W. Jaworski, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Amino acid digestibility in six sources of meat and bone meal fed to growing pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):105 (Abstr.)

Casas, G. A. and H. H. Stein. 2016. Effects of exogenous xylanase on digestibility of dry matter, organic matter, neutral detergent fiber, and energy and the concentrations of digestible and metabolizable energy in rice co-products fed to weanling pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):107 (Abstr.)

Merriman, L. A., C. L. Walk, and H. H. Stein. 2016. The effect of microbial phytase on the apparent and standardized total tract digestibility of calcium in feed ingredients of animal origin. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):110 (Abstr.)

Liu, Y., J. C. González-Vega, M. Vázquez-Añón, J. Zhao, J. Escobar, F. N. Almeida, and H. H. Stein. 2016. Effects of a novel phytase on growth performance and metacarpal bone ash in weanling pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):111-112 (Abstr.)

Kiarie, E., Y. Liu, M. C. Walsh, H. H. Stein, and L. Payling. 2016. Xylanase responses on apparent ileal digestibility of nutrients, fiber and energy in growing pigs fed corn, 30% corn co-products and soybean meal based diets as influenced by microbial phytase and acclimatization period. J. Anim. Sci. 94(Suppl. 2):112-113 (Abstr.)