Achievements
On May 4th, Megan Nelson successfully defended her MS thesis. During the last 2 years, Megan conducted 3 experiments, one of them with 40 diets and she put it all nicely together in her thesis. She will start a new job as a research coordinator for Cargill Animal Nutrition.
Personnel changes
Diego Rodriguez is the new Research Coordinator of the Swine Research Center and also he will continue the work he has been doing in our swine calorimeter unit. He is a highly qualified professional with years of experience and we know he will continue doing an outstanding job with us.
Dr. Charmaine Espinosa is leaving our lab after almost 7.5 years, she came first as a PhD student and during the last 4 years as a post doc. She has recently accepted a position as a nutritionist for EnviroFly en NC. It has been great having you in our team Charmaine. You did so many things for us and we wish you the best of luck with your future job.
Kate Stewart has been our Research Coordinator for 16 years but has recently accepted a position in Division of Research Safety as the Controlled Substances Surveillance Program Manager. Kate has helped all our Graduate students, all our visiting Scholars and interns, and a countless number of undergraduate students with their research in our team. We wish you the best of luck in your new position Kate.
New Experiments
Juliana Ravagnani started two experiments: "Human milk oligosaccharide-dependent engraftment of Bifidobacterium infantis (Bi) in pigs", and "Determination of digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS) for salmon proteins".
Minoy Cristobal started two experiments as well: ''Effect of feeding intact protein from soybean meal instead of crystalline amino acids on growth performance, protein synthesis, and immune system of growing pigs'', and ''Effect of feeding intact protein from soybean meal instead of crystalline amino acids on energy and nitrogen balance of growing pigs''.
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications:
Mallea, Andrea P., Maryane S. F. Oliveira, Diego A. Lopez, and Hans H. Stein. 2023. Nutritional value of a new source of cheese coproduct fed to weanling pigs. Journal of Animal Science: 101, 1–10. doi.org/10.1093/jas/skad107.
Espinosa, Charmaine D., Joaquin Cabañas-Ojeda, Edgar O. Oviedo-Rondón, and Hans H. Stein. 2023. Effects of corn hardness and drying temperature on digestibility of energy and nutrients in diets fed to growing pigs. Journal of Animal Science, 101: 1–9. doi.org/10.1093/jas/skad124.
Espinosa, Charmaine D., Leidy J. Torres-Mendoza, and Hans H. Stein. 2023. Torula yeast may improve intestinal health and immune function of weanling pigs. Journal of Animal Science: 101, 1–11. doi.org/10.1093/jas/skad087.
Forouzandeh, Asal, Simon Bo Lassen, Julius Emil Brinck, Yan-Yan Zhou, Jiaojiao Zhu, David Solà-Oriol, Alessandra Monteiro f, Xiuli Hao, Jian-Qiang Su, Hans H. Stein, J. Francisco Pérez, Kristian K. Brandt. 2023. Limited impacts of high doses of dietary copper on the gut bacterial metal resistome explain negligible co-selection of antibiotic resistance. Science of the Total Environment 889 (2023) 164183. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164183.
Cerisuelo, Alba, Pablo Ferrer, Ernesto Angel Gomez, Tofuko Awori Woyengo, Hans Henrik Stein, Mar Martínez, Jose Luís Cano, Olga Piquer. 2023. Nutritional value of Spanish Camelina sativa co-products for pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology 301: 115665. doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2023.115665.
Thesis:
Jimena Ibagon, 2023. M. S. Thesis: The nutritional value of field peas from different origins and with different particle sizes fed to growing pigs
Megan Nelson, 2023. M. S. Thesis: Basal endogenous loss of calcium and phosphorus and use of phytase in diets for pigs