Other Student Awards

Oral presentations

1st place – Alaina Macdonald – University of Guelph - "Determinants of health and disease at the global livestock-wildlife-human interface: a scoping review"

2nd place –Taylor McAtee – Kansas State University - "Associations between estimated greenhouse gas emissions in feedlot cattle cohorts and their health and performance"

3rd place – Claudia Ossa – Texas A&M University - "Rapid chute-side antibiotic resistance detection tool to improve antimicrobial stewardship and optimize risk management while controlling bovine respiratory disease"

4th place – MaRyka Smith – Kansas State University - "A scoping review of Foot-and-Mouth Disease biosecurity practices and farm-level risk factors"

Poster presentation

Kayla Hazlett – Texas A&M University – "Development of baits and a variant classification system for target-enriched metagenomic mapping of prevalent liver abscess taxa in the bovine gut"

Oral presentations

1st place – Alexandra Pace – University of Idaho – “Exposure to wildfire smoke PM2.5 causes pulmonary inflammation and behavioral alterations in dairy heifer calves”

2nd place – Taylor McAtee – Kansas State University – “Comprehensive outcomes from a feedlot trial comparing ractopamine hydrochloride and lubabegron feed additives”

3rd place – Rafael Portillo-Gonzalez – The Ohio State University – “Comparison of two methods for collecting antimicrobial usage data on large dairy farms in Ohio and California”

4th place – Lucas Horton – Kansas State University – “Economic considerations for extended feedlot heifer days-on-feed – sensitivity analyses from pooled clinical trials”

Poster presentation

Kiranmayee Bhimavarapu – Auburn University – “Environmental antimicrobial resistance threats to food safety and security”

Oral presentations

1st place – Lucas Horton – Kansas State University – “Outcomes affected by metaphylaxis from a clinical trial of feedlot calves at medium risk for respiratory disease”

2nd place – Colette Nickodem – Texas A&M – “Natural and targeted bacteriophage treatments as a salmonella pre-harvest mitigation technique in cattle feedlots”

3rd place – Christopher Panaretos – Texas A&M – “Design of an RNA bait set to enrich M bovis genomic DNA in samples of the bovine respiratory tract”

Oral presentations

1st place – Benjamin Blair – University of Illinois – “The application of artificial intelligence to detect disease outbreaks in swine farms”

2nd place – Rodrigo Campos – University of Georgia – “Dynamics of bovine tuberculosis outbreaks: a study of interdependence between seasonal host movement and pathogen abundance”

3rd place – Christopher Kellogg – Michigan State University – “Changes in bovine leukemia virus diagnostic parameters in naturally infected dairy cattle over a lactation cycle”

Oral presentations

Min Zhang – Iowa State University – “Bayesian latent class mixture model with censoring for correlation in antimicrobial resistance across populations”

Sejin Cheong – University of California-Davis – “Survey of management and animal health practices on organic dairy herds in California

Taylor McAtee – Kansas State University - “Quantifying associations between cattle health and performance metrics with estimated greenhouse gas emissions in US feedlots”