ASAS-CSAS Annual Meeting, Hollywood, Florida, July 6-10
Himani Joshi did an oral presentation (Vision-Based ResNet-50-CNN and YOLOv8 Models for Predicting Behavioral Patterns Under Heat Stress in Lactating Holstein and Jersey Cows) at the Animal Behavior and Well-Being I Session
Himani Joshi presented an poster (Efficacy of Fan and Sprinkler Cooling Strategies in Alleviating Heat Stress in Lactating Dairy Cattle) at Poster Session VI
Himani Joshi presented an poster (Efficacy of Fan and Sprinkler Cooling Strategies in Alleviating Heat Stress in Lactating Dairy Cattle) at Poster Session VI
Enjoyed the Hollywood Beach🏝️
Farewell Party, Starkville, Mississippi, May 18
ADS 4440 Research Presentation, Starkville, Mississippi, May 20
Congrats to our undergraduate interns, Brandon and Lindsey, on their graduation🧑🎓
Undergraduate students enrolled in ADS 4440 presented their term papers
CALS/MAFES bus tour of the Coastal Research and Extension Center, Biloxi, Mississippi (May 6-7)
Dr. Fan and other MAFES researchers visited our collaborator, Dr. Holley Muraco's MSU boat
Spring Symposium - Food Science and Industry in Mississippi: Adding Value & Feeding the World, Starkville, Mississppi, April 22
Jalyn Hawkins presented a poster (Identification of gut microbiota features of diarrheic calves using the full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and machine learning) and won third place in the poster competition
Alaina Franks presented a poster (Examining Behavioral Differences of Holstein and Jersey Cows to Novel Stimuli) and won second place in the poster competition
Julia Connors presented a poster (Examining the association of parlor behavior and milk production between Holstein and Jersey lactating cows).
Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, Starkville, Mississippi, April 9-10
Brandon Bernard presented a poster (In Vitro Assessment of the Neuroactive Potential of the Rumen Microbiome) and participated in the 3MT competition
Abigail McBride presented a poster (Effect of Fan and Sprinkler Cooling Strategy on Relieving Heat Stress in Dairy Cows)
Brandon's poster was selected as one of honorable mentions
Himani Joshi participated in the Graduate 3MT Competition (In vitro Assessment of the Neuroactive Potential of the Rumen Microbiome)
Jalyn Hawkins participated in the Graduate 3MT Competition (Understanding the contribution of colostrum microbiota on colostrum metabolomics and calf gut microbiota development)
Lindsey Reon participated in the Undergraduate 3MT Competition (Assessing the Effects of Menthol-Based Heat Stress Mitigation Strategy via Vagus Nerve Stimulation on the Behavior of Dairy Cattle)
MANRRS 39th Annual Training Conference & Career Expo, Memphis, Tennessee, Apr 2-6
Himani Joshi presenting her Menthol-based Heat Stress Mitigation research in 3MT at 39th National MANRRS, Memphis, TN
Jalyn Hawkins, 3rd place (Jalyn's Photo at the National Photo Contest, MANRRS, Memphis, TN)
Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) annual meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 19-21
Himani Joshi represented MSU gratuate student to participate the 3MT competition in the 2025 Conference of Southern Graduate Schools in Dallas, Texas. The conference considers topics relating to graduate study and research of mutual interest to member institutions. www.msstate.edu/state-spotlight/2025/03/conference-southern-graduate-schools