News and Announcements

This week's ISES 2019 blog post "Revolutionizing Equestrian Sport: A Dashboard for Horses?" is from BBRM student Madeline Boast. In this blog, Madeline profiles Menke Steenbergen, founder and CEO of IPOS Technology.

This week's ISES 2019 blog post "If the Unspeakable Happens, Are You Ready?" is from BBRM students Emma Lewis and Jessica Toushan. In this article, Emma and Jessica discuss one of the hands-on workshops running in conjunction with the conference-Large Animal Rescue Training (LART)

This week's ISES 2019 blog post "Who's Watching Your Horse" is from BBRM student Shauna Thomson. In this article, Shauna prolifes Jeffrey Schab-designer of the world's first smart harlter-Nighwatch.

The full blog post can be found here  > https://ises2019uofg.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/whos-watching-your-horse/

ABSc Prof. Michael Steele has been named a recipient of the 2019 American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Early Career Achievement Award. The award will be presented during the 2019 ASAS-CSAS Annual Meeting held this July in Austin, Texas.The ASAS Early Career Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has shown outstanding achievement as a young scholar.

PhD Candidate Michelle Lavery was awarded 1st place in the Oral Presentatin category at the 49th Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium (OE3C) for her talk on "Identifying enriched housing conditions for zebrafish (Danio rerio) that vary along a scale of preference". The OE3C is an event for researchers at all stages of their careers, from undergraduate to graduate to faculty and highlights research in ecology, evolution, conservation, behavior, environmental sciences, genetics, molecular and cellular biology, and psychology.

The Department of Animal Biosciences conducts outstanding research in the areas of nutrition, nutrition modelling, physiology, molecular biology, biotechnology, welfare and behavior, breeding, genetics and meat science. The following is a list of journal articles published from members of the Department of Animal Biosciences in the month of May-have a read!

This weeks ISES 2019 blog post is from BBRM students Emma Lewis and and Marley Woolley, who profile master saddle fitter Jochen Schleese. Read the post here  --> https://ises2019uofg.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/the-myths-of-saddle-fitting-helping-horses-one-saddle-at-a-time/

ABSc PhD candidate George Hall was recently featured in an article from Hybrid Turkeys on the use of ovarian transplantation as a possible solution for the preservation of valuable turkey genetic lines. The project is a collaborative effort between U of G (Hall and his advisor Prof. Grégoy Bédécarrats) and industry partners Hybrid Turkeys (Dr. Ben Wood) and the United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (Dr. Julie Long).

This weeks ISES 2019 blog post is from BBRM students Jamie Meilach and Samantha White, who discuss the importance of farm staff attendees at equitation science conferences and the knowledge they bring from the ground up. Check it out!  --> https://bit.ly/2HFLN8w.

This week's ISES 2019-Guelph blog post comes from our very own Prof. Katrina Merkies on "Communicating science to horse owners and managers". 

Don't forget, the early bird deadline for conference registration is fast approaching! Register by June 1 for the reduced rate!