Three-Minute Thesis Challenge

2020 Three-Minute Thesis Challenge

First place: Ellen Lai

Why are Cows So Lame?

Second place: Tanya Muratori

Health, Wellbeing, and Production: Where does Telomere Length Contribute?

Third place: Megan Lauber

Grab Your Watch, You Don’t Want to be Late: Timing of AI with Sexed Semen

People's choice award: Felipe Padua

How to Reduce the Negative Effects of Regrouping?

Linda Beckett

Maintaining Milk Production: 'Omics Analysis Reveals Protein Turnover as Another Key Criteria

Fabiana Cardoso

Is Bacteria Affecting Your Drinks?

Mikaela Fringer

Additives Everywhere

Siobhan Mellors

Tackling the Age Old Question: Whole Milk or Milk Replacer

Carlyn Peterson

The Power of Poop: Can Cattle Solve the Climate Crisis?

Sonali Raghunath

I Let the Protein Dance Again!

2019 Three-Minute Thesis Challenge

First Place: Sam Rowe

Antibiotic Stewardship and Dry Cow Therapy

Second Place: Amanda Lee

How Many Cows Can an Automatic Milking System Handle?

Third Place: Katie Kelly

Diets and Distractions

Maryam Enteshari

Lactose journey towards valorization

Anna Hawkins

Raising Heifers: Costly But Critical

Conor McCabe

What if Cows Were Jet Lagged Every Three Days?

Shayanti Mini

Encapsulated whey-probiotics; as a dietary deliverable

Kaavya Rathnakumar

Introducing Smart solvents in Dairy manufacturing

Pratishtha Verma

A natural antimicrobial as a potential dairy membrane sanitizer

Mahmoud Zayda

MRSA in DAIRY-world WH? is GUILTY

2018 THREE-MINUTE THESIS CHALLENGE

First Place: Gustavo Mazon

Would you wear your Fitbit in a buffet?

Second Place: Kayla Alward

The big whoop about Anti-Mullerian Hormone

Third Place: Katherine Kennedy
Nancy Awasti
Pratibha Chaudhary
Maryam Enteshari

How to look at dairy wastewater not as a burden but rather as a profit?

Anna Hawkins

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Allison Lawton
Mauricio Xavier da Silva Oliveira

2017 Three-Minute Thesis Challenge

First Place: Jennifer Spencer

Aspirin: For aches and pains, and reproduction?   

Second Place: Victoria Couture

Making the Connections: Mastitis and Behavior

Third Place: Neha Neha

Listeria control on ice cream, based on response surface modeling

Fourth Place: Hannah Bailey
Fifth Place: Anne-Marieke Smid

Outdoor access for dairy cows- letting cows vote with their feet!

Ashenafi Beyi

Application of Nearest Neighbor Methods to Support Dairy Cow Replacement Decisions


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Brittany Casperson

Corn Stover, feed efficiency, and food security

Aung Htun
Reshalaithan Maimaiti

Effect of parity on feed intake of dairy cows soon after calving

Dipak Mehta
Venkat Sunkesula

2016 GSD Three-Minute Thesis Challenge

First Place: Andy Lee
Second Place (tie): Melissa Bainbridge

Optimizing milk's bioactive fatty acid content for human health

Second Place (tie): Lauren Mayo
Third Place: Jeffrey Kaufman
Jose Denis-Robichaud

Does using automated activity monitoring (AAM) improve reproductive performance over timed artificial insemination

Dipakkumar Mehta
Ricardo Rodrigues

Development of a model to study mammary gland function during heat stress

2015 GSD Three-Minute Thesis Challenge

First Place: Janna Moats

Extruded flaxseed products to improve the nutritional value of cow's milk

Second Place: Melissa Woolpert

Milk's fatty acid fingerprint: the dairy management tool of the future

Third Place: Karmella Dolecheck

Rethinking reproduction

Fourth Place (tie): Mac Campbell

Overcrowding: Walking the Tightrope of Cow Well-Being

Fourth Place (tie): Lee Cadesky

Functional changes to milk proteins induced by high hydrostatic pressure

Katherine (Katie) Boesche
Abigail (Gale) Carpenter

Dairy cattle and anti-inflammatory drugs

Taylor Yohe

Identification and characterization of potential rumen stem cells