New Animal and Dairy Sciences projects funded by the Hub!

Short Term, High Impact – funded summer 2023

Alice Assumpção is a PhD student in Hilario Mantovani’s lab. Here she takes a saliva sample as part of her work evaluating methane emissions and rumen microbiota

Christian Krueger, “Intramammary infusion of cranberry-chitosan hydrogels for prevention or treatment of bovine mastitis”

Hilario Mantovani, “Unlocking the ecological interactions in the rumen microbiota that affect methane formation and mitigation strategies“

Jennifer Van Os, “Mooving Cows: An innovative tool for diverse audiences to learn dairy cow handling practices”

Equipment – funded spring 2023

Lautaro Rostoll Cangiano, Acquisition of high parameter flow cytometer to disentangle complex microbehost interactions that drive neonatal development in dairy cows

Members of the Dairy Innovation Hub advisory council tour the newly developed beef x dairy cross calf rearing facility at the Arlington Ag Research Station on Aug. 14, 2023. Photo by Nguyen Tran.

Jessica Cederquist, Expanding calf housing options into underutilized UW animal research facilities

Nancy Esser, Calan feeding gates in Marshfield ARS lactating cow barn

Luiz Ferraretto, Increasing research capacity in energy partitioning and feed efficiency walk on scales and expansion of electronic intake gate feeders

Jimena Laporta, Tracking longitudinal bovine mammary gland development via ultrasound technology

Vanessa Leone, Building capacity to perform cow-side measurements of cellular metabolism via the mobile seahorse XF HS mini analyzer

Hilario Mantovani, Acquisition of an automated platform (OmniLog ID Plus system) for identification and functional characterization of microbial isolates and phenotyping of livestock microbiomes

Francisco Peñagaricano, Increasing research capacity in enteric methane emissions and sustainable dairy farming: acquisition of a GreenFeed unit

Jennifer Van Os, Multi-barn high-resolution camera system for behavioral monitoring of dairy heifers