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Nutrition Seminars - Spring 2009
4:00pm Wednesdays, 1860 Litton Reaves


Today is: Nov 24, 2009
  
     
 
UPCOMING SEMINARS

 
 
 
PAST SEMINARS

Jan 16   Dr. Michael Bedford - NSP enzymes for cereals - what can be expected and what are the pitfalls in estimation in their effect
Jan 23   Dr. Kristine Urschel - Studying arginine metabolism in neonatal piglets using surgical models and isotopic techniques
Jan 30   Dr. Eric Wong - The journey of the intestinal peptide transporter PepT1
Feb 06   Dr. Gabriella Varga - How we are using the Penn State dairy facility as a research demonstration farm
Feb 13   Holly Boland - Spatial allocation of forages and its impact on grazing behavior
Feb 20   Adriana Barri - Incubation temperatures and post-hatch transportation stress affects organ development and performance in broiler chickens.
Feb 27   Dr. Alexander Hristov - Use of stable isotopes in animal nutrition and environmental research?
Mar 05   Spring Break - No Seminar
Mar 12   Dr. Stephanie Frankenbach - Implementing Research Findings in the Poultry and Swine Industries
Mar 19   Joby Cyriac - Can milk production be maintained in mid-lactation dairy cows when feeding Rumen-Degradable Protein at concentrations lower than NRC recommendations?
Mar 26   Rebecca Carter - Metabolic consequences of diet-induced obesity in horses
Apr 02   Lihong Li - The effect of source and level of trace minerals on performance and immune response of turkeys
Apr 09   Dr. Elizabeth Koutsos - Carotenoids - functions and applications in applied animal agriculture and exotic animal nutrition
Apr 16   Remembrance Day - No seminar
Apr 23   Dr. Michael Spurlock - Seminar has been cancelled
Apr 30   Ashley Wagner - Effect of nonstarch polysaccharidases on phytase activity in distillers dried grains with solubles.
May 07   Dr. Paul Siciliano - To be determined
Jan 21   Organizational meeting - Jeffery Escobar
Jan 28   No seminar - 
Feb 04   Dr. Gerald Weigel - Plant Biotechnology; The Future in Feeding Livestock & Poultry
Feb 11   No seminar - 
Feb 18   Dr. Tracy Anthony - GCN2: It's Amino World Without It
Feb 25   Dr. Michael Spurlock - Adipocytes and Adipokines: What does it all mean for fat mice, pigs and people?
Mar 04   Dr. Ronald Ball - Nutritional implications of interspecies differences in lysine and arginine metabolism
Mar 11   Spring Break - No Seminar
Mar 18   Agustin Rius - Regulation of protein synthesis in lactating dairy cattle
Mar 25   Dr. Heather Dann - An Overview of the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute with Highlights of the Institutes Research on Feeding Low-Starch Diets to Dairy Cows
Apr 01   Dr. Amy Batal - To be determined
Apr 08   Dr. Matthew Hulver - Toll-like receptor 4 modulates skeletal muscle metabolism: Is there a role in the obese state?
Apr 15   Ranga Appuhany - Amino acid, energy, and insulin signaling for protein synthesis in bovine mammary epithelial cells in vitro
Apr 22   Dr. Jason Scheffler - To be determined
Apr 29   Carrie Walk - To be determined
May 06   Jamie Jarrett - Effects of adding sodium bisfulate to weanling and finishing pig diets on growth performance, nutrient excretion, and slurry characteristics
      Mar 04, 09
 
Dr. Ronald Ball
Professor
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada
Primary area of research is amino acid metabolism in swine and humans. Emphasis is on neonatal development, growing swine and adult humans. In vivo infusion of isotopically labelled amino acids is used to study oxidation, utilization, inter organ metabolism and metabolic interconversions including protein synthesis, deposition and breakdown. The goal of the neonatal research program is to develop optimal amino acid patterns for neonates during normal feeding, early weaning, the post natal period, total parenteral nutrition and recovery from disease. A unique surgically prepared piglet model for enteral and parenteral nutrition has been developed. The goal of the research program in growing swine is to improve productive efficiency, performance and meat quality. Research is being conducted in amino acid utilization, nutrition and gastro intestinal diseases and alternative feedstuffs. The program in adult and neonatal amino acid nutrition is conducted in collaboration with Dr. Paul Pencharz, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children.