Champaign, IL (May 12, 2025)—The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA) is pleased to announce Thales Eduardo Galdino Andrade as the 2025 recipient of the ADSA Foundation Graduate Student Literature Review Award: Production Division (PhD). The award will be presented on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, during the awards ceremony at the ADSA Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.
The ADSA Foundation Graduate Student Literature Review Award: Production Division (PhD) was created to recognize graduate students who have composed in-depth and extensive literature reviews in their thesis or dissertation and allow for these papers to be published in the Journal of Dairy Science® as review papers, making them available as references for citations in original research papers. The winner must be a graduate student (or within 6 months of graduation) at the time of the article submission to the Journal of Dairy Science. The article must be no more than 30 double-spaced pages, including references and graphs, have no more than 75 references, and be focused on a topic in dairy science.
As a PhD student in basic and applied immunology at the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Galdino Andrade studies immunity induced by vaccines based on salivary proteins from Rhipicephalus microplus ticks. With a degree in biological sciences from the Federal University of Piauí, during this period, he developed research in the areas of botany and genetics. He has an MS in genetics and breeding from the Federal University of Piauí. His dissertation described chromosomal analyses using fluorochromes applied to prebreeding. He has professional experience as an instructor of scientific methodology at Faculdade Maranhense, Faculdade Evangélica do Piauí, and the National Baptist Theological Seminary. He participated in the Faraday Institute Summer Course at the University of Cambridge, England.
It is with great pleasure that ADSA and the ADSA Foundation present Thales Eduardo Galdino Andrade with the 2025 ADSA Foundation Graduate Student Literature Review Award: Production Division (PhD).
About the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA)
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