December 2016 Lab News

Travel

Dr. Stein travelled to the Philippines and participated in swine nutrition seminars for Filipino nutritionists organized by USSEC (the United States Soybean Export Council) and the company Nuevo Melenio. He gave three presentations:

  • Sources of energy and protein in diets fed to pigs.
  • Value-added soybean products
  • Heat damage and Maillard reactions of feed ingredients

He also went to the University of the Philippines at Los Baños and gave a talk for faculty and graduate students entitled "Digestibility of energy and nutrients by pigs."

While there, he met with Dr. Rommel Sulabo, former MS student and postdoc in our lab, and also had a chance to meet Dr. Ameer Pahm and Dr. Sarah Cervantes-Pahm, both former PhD students in our lab.

Dr. Stein and RommelAmeer, Sarah, and Dr. Stein

Publications

Stein, H. H., L. A. Merriman, and J. C. González-Vega. 2016. Establishing a digestible calcium requirement for pigs. Pages 207-216 in Phytate destruction—consequences for precision animal nutrition. Walk, C. L., ed. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands.

González-Vega, J. C. and H. H. Stein. 2016. Calcium transporters and gene expression and absorption of calcium in pigs. Pages 217-224 in Phytate destruction—consequences for precision animal nutrition. Walk, C. L., ed. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands.

2016 Wrap-up

2016 was another busy year in the Stein lab. Dr. Stein has created a newsletter for alumni featuring highlights from 2016, personnel changes, updates on current graduate students, Publications, and completed and ongoing research.

2016 Alumni Newsletter (.pdf)