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Join us for an exclusive webinar where we will explore the art of leveraging your LinkedIn profile to its full potential. You will learn why it is important to create a LinkedIn account.

You will learn how to build an ideal profile and write posts that will make you stand out to potential employers. You will see real-world examples of crafting compelling headlines along with practical tips. We will discuss how to best build your network and engage with industry professionals.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge and learn from someone in a unique position in the animal agriculture community.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024
12:00-1:00pm CST
Maximizing Your LinkedIn Profile

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Rebecca Bader (She/Her)

Rebecca Bader is the marketing director at C-Lock Inc. She is responsible for creating and managing all global marketing content, sponsorships, and tradeshow events. With over eight years of experience in agriculture marketing, she has worked in both private and public sectors. Bader holds a degree in agriculture communications with a minor in animal science from South Dakota State University. She specializes in taking a detailed approach to big-picture marketing strategies.

C-Lock Inc. is the leading enteric ruminant data collection company, headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota, specializing in the production of animal science research equipment and technology. Ultimately, these platforms create opportunities for the global animal production industry to identify nutrition, genetic, and management strategies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the efficiency of the use of feed and natural resources, and enhance animal welfare and productivity.

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Meet the ADSA Board of Directors, Dairy Production Division
GSD Two-Part Webinar Kickoff
GSD Two-Part Webinar Kickoff

Meet the ADSA Board of Directors
Dairy Foods Division: October 30 | 2:00 p.m. CT
New Concepts in Calf Nutrition Webinar

The ADSA Graduate Student Division Advisory Council invites you to join us for a free webinar exploring the latest breaking concepts in calf nutrition led by Michael Steele, PhD, from the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph.

Dr. Steele's research program hypothesizes that during early life, gastrointestinal function and health in the ruminant are regulated by specific interactions among diet and microbiota that can impact gastrointestinal physiology later in life. As such, the overall objective of his research program is to develop a better understanding of how preweaning nutritional and management factors that are common in livestock production can impact gastrointestinal development and metabolism during the preweaning phase and later in life.

You will get a glimpse into the following:

  • Colostrum and factors influencing transfer of passive immunity,
  • Effects of feeding elevated planes of milk nutrition and milk replacer composition, and
  • Weaning strategies and calf gut function.
MEET THE ADSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DAIRY PRODUCTION

Title: Meet the ADSA Board: a conversation in career paths and journeys to where they are today. (Production))
Speakers: ADSA President – Normand St-Pierre, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University; JDS Editor-in-Chief – Paul Kononoff, University of Nebraska; ADSA Dairy Production Division Director (24) – Laura Hernandez, University of Wisconsin

The board members answer questions about their careers and involvement in ADSA leadership, as well as provide advice for students and new professionals.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from these leaders! The hour-long webinar will include a live panel discussion followed by a question-and-answer session.


ADSA President
Normand St-Pierre
Professor Emeritus,
The Ohio State University


JDS Editor-in-Chief
Paul Kononoff
University of Nebraska


ADSA Production Division Director (24)
Laura Hernandez
University of Wisconsin

MEET THE ADSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DAIRY FOODS

Title: Meet the ADSA Board: a conversation in career paths and journeys to where they are today. (Dairy Foods)
Speakers: ADSA Vice President – Federico Harte, Pennsylvania State University; ADSA Past President – Paul Kindstedt, University of Vermont; ADSA Dairy Foods Director (25) – Rani Govindasamy-Lucey, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research

The board members answer questions about their careers and involvement in ADSA leadership, as well as provide advice for students and new professionals.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from these leaders! The hour-long webinar will include a live panel discussion followed by a question-and-answer session.


ADSA Vice President
Federico Harte
Pennsylvania State University


ADSA Past President
Paul Kindstedt
University of Vermont


ADSA Dairy Foods Director (25)
Rani Govindasamy-Lucey
Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research

The Art of Networking

Title: The Art of Networking
Speaker: Lori Connelly, Penn State University
When: May 25, at 3:00 p.m. EDT

The goal of this webinar is to provide members with the opportunity to brush up on in-person networking skills in preparation for scheduled events at the ADSA Annual Meeting.

Lori Connelly is the Director of Experiential Learning and Career Services for Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. In her role, she oversees employer relations and leads undergraduate student programming related to career-readiness and professional development. Prior to joining the university, Connelly worked in various roles in the agricultural industry, focusing on communications, government relations, and leadership development. With roots in the dairy industry, Connelly is a member of the National Dairy Shrine, the National and Pennsylvania Holstein Associations, and the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

 

Driving the dairy industry toward data-driven decision-making

Title: Driving the dairy industry toward data-driven decision-making
Speaker: Sarah I. Murphy, Cornell University

Large volumes of data are collected across dairy food systems. Yet, collected data are hardly used to inform decision-making in a systematic and quantitative way. To facilitate use of data by industry, it is important to provide training to current and future industry professionals. This webinar will introduce topics including data management, analytics, and modeling, with examples relating to the dairy industry. Discussion will include how graduate students and professionals can pursue formal and informal education to improve their skills working with data.

Sarah I. Murphy is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Cornell University, working in Renata Ivanek’s research group. Murphy has expertise in food microbiology, food industry operations, and data analytics and modeling, which she applies to her research on microbial food quality and safety in dairy and produce supply chains. After receiving a BS in biological chemistry from Bates College in 2014, Murphy worked in QA/QC at Darigold for two years. Murphy received a PhD in food science and technology from Cornell University in 2020, under the primary guidance of Martin Wiedmann.

 

OPTIMALLY MANAGING FOOD SAFETY RISKS: IT TAKES A VILLAGE!

Optimally Managing Food Safety Risks: It Takes a Village!
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | 12 pm EST

Ruth Petran is a pragmatic food safety and public health expert with a proven reputation of communication and implementation of tactical risk management strategies using deep technical expertise and practical management approaches. She has always relied heavily on others and their diverse experiences along the way to add to her knowledge. Through this it has been crucial to recognize that stakeholders along the farm-to-fork continuum have different approaches and needs in food protection. Despite this, collaboration is essential to ensure that our foods are safe and wholesome for everyone. Petran looks forward to sharing about her career journey and guiding principles, and providing a tangible applied example of how this has all fit together.

Ruth Petran is senior advisor of food safety for The Acheson Group. As a passionate yet practical food safety scientist, Petran is also the principal and founder of Ruth Petran Consulting LLC in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to starting her own business, Petran held technical food safety and public health leadership roles at Ecolab, Pillsbury, and General Mills. Petran is president of the International Association for Food Protection and served two terms on the US National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods. She is a certified food scientist and member of the Institute of Food Technologists, and chaired the Minnesota Food Safety and Defense Task Force. Her bachelor’s degree is in consumer food science from Cornell University and she holds an MS in food science and a PhD in public health, both from the University of Minnesota.

Improving scientific communication: a perspective from the outside looking in

The goal of this webinar is to learn ways to improve scientific communication, whether that be to the general public or to other scientists.

Dr. Harris is an advocate for making scientific communication clear and engaging. She earned a PhD in microbiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2020. She currently works as the Manager of Engagement and Communications for the company Xontogeny. In this role, she works with life sciences startup companies to manage their communication strategies with stockholders and increase their value. She also advocates for mental health and is the founder of PhD Balance which is a community space for academics to connect and share their experiences, as well as for providing them resources.

The cows are talking- can you hear? Using precision dairy technologies to improve the management, health and welfare of dairy cattle

This webinar will focus on previous research with wearables, milk sensors and automatic calf feeders conducted at the University of Minnesota’s West Central Research Center in Morris, Minnesota. Topics include, validation of technologies for pasture-based herds, evaluation of estrus detection, using rumen temperature to measure heat stress, rearing calves on automatic calf feeders and precision dairy technologies benefits and pitfalls.

Glenda Pereira is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, where she focuses on dairy cattle management specifically with crossbred dairy cattle in grazing and confined systems. Originally from the Azores, Glenda plans to return there to open a creamery on her family’s dairy farm and continue to help dairy producers find ways to best manage their cattle. Having previously served as secretary and communications chair for GSD, Glenda has a passion for communicating her research. Her favorite pastimes are reading, hiking and spending time with family and her cat when she is not writing manuscripts.

Brad Heins is an Associate Professor of Dairy Management at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research Center in Morris, Minnesota. The Center has a 130-head herd in a certified organic system, and a 160-head herd in a conventional grazing system. His research and extension program focus on best management practices for dairy production, crossbreeding of dairy cattle, health and fertility and survival of Holsteins and crossbreds, group rearing of calves, and renewable energy for dairy production systems. He also evaluates the genetics of health and productivity of Holsteins and crossbreds at the research center. He serves on the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture Board of Directors and the Minnesota Organic Advisory Task Force.

An introduction to R: Opening the door to a friendly and useful software package

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After a brief discussion about statistics, I will introduce R. I will demonstrate how to download this open source software and then walk through a couple of quick statistics examples. I will finish with a note about some of the advanced functionality of R.

Bio:
Dr. Scott Merrill is a Research Assistant Professor in the Plant and Soil Science Department at the University of Vermont and Managing Director of the Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation (SEGS) lab. He is a systems ecologist with research spanning a wide range of both natural ecosystems and social-ecological systems. Projects include examining dynamics of change within pest-crop agroecosystems including aspects of climate change, examining ways to nudge human behavior to help protect the health of our livestock herds, and looking at factors motivating behavior that affects water quality in the Lake Champlain watershed. In the SEGS lab, he uses experimental gaming as a novel technique for collecting data to examine decision making in social-ecological systems. An important goal of this work is the creation of applicable and predictive models to inform best management practices.

Job Title:
Research Assistant Professor

Organization(s):
Department of Plant and Soil Science
Managing Director. Social Ecological Gaming and Simulation Lab
Gund Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
University of Vermont

Consumer Behaviour and the impact of COVID19 – considerations for the dairy industry

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Anne Goldman, CFS, FIFT
Vice President Consumer Research
ACCE International
2575B Dunwin Drive
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 3N9
Canada

Webinar summary
COVID19 has impacted the consumer in many ways and in particular with respect to their sourcing, preparation and consumption of foods & beverages. Anne will discuss the changes that have resulted and that may have an impact for the future from her perspective as a consumer sensory researcher. She will address the implications that this has for the dairy industry.

A food science graduate of the Universities of London and Leeds, Anne began her professional career in the UK food industry followed by research positions with DSIR, Fonterra and Massey University in New Zealand and an Assistant Professorship at the University of Guelph, Canada. Anne is most proud of the fact that she has been a principle of ACCE International, a Canadian consumer sensory research company that she helped found over 30 years ago. Her company helps businesses chart their way to finding the most appealing products for their target consumers.

Anne is an IFT Fellow, a Certified Food Scientist and she was honoured with IFT’s 2016 Sensory and Consumer Sciences Achievement Award for her lifelong contribution of actively supporting and advancing the sensory and consumer research field. She is also a Fellow of CIFST, IFST, IAFoST and MRIA and a recipient of the Honorary David R. Peryam Award for applied sensory science.

Anne divides her time between Ontario, Canada and Queenstown, New Zealand.

Contact details
agoldman@acceintl.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-goldman-3a86837/

The Principles and Practices of Food Systems Research

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John P McNamara
President, Washington Science Teachers Association
Emeritus Professor of Animal Sciences
WSU Teaching Academy
Fellow, American Dairy Science Association
Fellow, American Society of Animal Sciences

Brief Description of Webinar
"An interactive, fun and factual look at systems biology in animal agriculture, how we got here, where we are going and why we must change our experimental approach."

Job Title
Professor Emeritus of Animal Sciences, WSU. Fellow, American Dairy Science Association; Fellow, American Society of Animal Sciences; President, Washington Science Teachers Association.

Organization(s)
Washington State University, Washington Science Teachers Association

Born in a little farm town of Chicago, he realized milking cows and feeding pigs was more interesting then selling groceries. Later he realized that doing research on cows and pigs was a lot easier than milking and feeding them. That led to a BS in Agricultural Sciences (1976) and an MS in Dairy Sciences (1978) at University of Illinois. But the best part of that experience was meeting his love, Sue, to whom he has been married for 44 years.

Following a PhD as the first graduate of the new Foods & Nutrition Program at University of GA (1982), he did a post doctorate in Dairy Sciences at University of FL, and then accepted a job in the hidden town of Pullman WA and has now been retired from Washington State University for 4 years.

He had the great opportunity to work with Bob Collier, Dale Bauman, Jimmy Clark, Carl Davis, Bruce Larson, Janice Bahr and others at the University of Illinois, where he learned that biology included everything in life, not just one part; the value of studying the literature before you devise hypotheses; designing experiments for the most clear and relevant answers, and being sure the experimental design matched the hypotheses, and that the statistical analyses matched the experimental design. He also learned how to be a team player and a good faculty member, and that being a good scientist, teacher and a nice person were not mutually exclusive.

At UI, he also learned the hard way how important it was to be a good teacher, taking the graduate level Ag Statistics class, from the ‘guy who wrote the book’; and whose teaching method was ‘turn on the overhead, start writing and talking to the overhead, turn off the overhead and leave.’ No eye contact, no interaction. But we did teach ourselves statistics very well.

It was also a room of about 120 white men. So, 40 years later, in the same building, while receiving the Award of Merit from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and being inducted into the Round Barn Society, he could talk to the room of 120 young people of all genders, ethnicities, points of view and state ‘we are (we being the 5 old white guys getting the rewards) the past, and you are the future!’

Continuing on the quest of learning the interaction of biology and statistics, he had the glory of crashing the entire UGA computer system with a SAS ANOVA for 3 diets, 6 animals per diet, 6 post-harvest nutrient concentrations in incubations in 3 tissues and 3 reps per concentration. Remember, this was 1981 on a mainframe with punch cards.

At WSU, he had the good fortune of working with a geneticist Joe Hillers, with whom he was able to make some of the first discoveries of the metabolic controls which made the most efficient cows. Later, he was able to ‘end’ the research thread with the largest data set (to that time) on mRNA expression in the adipose tissue of dairy cattle. Among his discoveries were the uncoupling of lipolysis and lipogenesis in later lactation, which was the first explanation of why cows in later lactation are the most efficient animals. Their studies in early lactation defined the differences in control of metabolic pathways due to genetic selection and how that interacted with energy intake to ensure rapid rates of milk production, energy intake and adipose metabolism.

All of these experiments included explicitly genetics (genetic merit of milk production of the bulls) and energy intake in the model, as well as repeated studies over time and in many experiments, tissue culture, enzyme activity and later, mRNA expression. No experimental model had fewer than 6 to 8 interactions and most used continuous rather than categorial variables, as metabolism is continuous. To put that in perspective, the biochemical model of Baldwin et al that Dr. McNamara studied for 30 + years has over 100 equations with more than 17000 variables, in an attempt to explain the cow, which has more than 3000 metabolic reactions occurring in several organs, every day and 3000 relevant genes expressed. So, let us not say that an experiment with 6 to 8 interactions is too complex.

In addition to driving himself crazy studying cows, he also did the same thing in sows to discover the interactions of energy and amino acid metabolism in lactating sows. He helped build the only mechanistic model of metabolism in pregnant and lactating sows.

And, just because he was one of the few who realized that student’s and society’s interest in companion animals far exceeded its interest in farm animals, and that pets were not only economically important, but a key part of human development and behavior; he started one of the first senior level Companion Animal Courses, and an early course in Pet Nutrition, which was taught as a WSU University General Education Course, which means it could serve as the only biology course several students would take. His successful text, Principles of Companion Animal Nutrition has been used across the country and some other countries and is now in a new (3rd) edition, all on-line interactive text with Great River Learning.

In recognition of his scientific and educational work, Dr. McNamara earned the1990 WSU College of Agriculture Young Scientist Award, the 1992 ADSA Young Scientist Award, the 2001 Washington Science Teachers Association Higher Education Teacher of the Year; the 2007 Corbin Award in Companion Animal Biology (Dr. Corbin was one of his teachers at UI in the 70’s); The College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resources Excellence in Advising Award (2005); and received the first WSU Excellence in Advising Award (2016). He was elected to the WSU President’s Teaching Academy in 2007. He was elected as a Fellow of ADSA in 2012; earned the 2015 Zoetis Animal Physiology Award and was elected a Fellow of ASAS in 2016. He is one of only 11 people who were elected as Fellows of both ADSA and ASAS.

Learning and Applying Statistics: What Could Go Wrong?

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Dr. Nick Serão
Assistant Professor, Animal Breeding & Genetics
Iowa State University
https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/serao/

Nick Serão is an Assistant Professor of Animal Breeding & Genetics at Iowa State University. He holds BSc (Animal Science, 2007) and MSc (Breeding and Genetics, 2009) degrees from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil and a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Animal Science, 2012). Nick started his faculty career at NC State University in 2015, and in 2017 he joined Iowa State University. With over 60 peer-reviewed articles, over 140 scientific abstracts, and over $3.2 million in grants and in-kind support, Nick has established an original and highly productive research program in genetics, genomics, and statistics. His research program is focused on animal health (e.g., PRRS in pigs), reproduction in sows and boars, novel traits and Big Data (e.g., microbiome and RNA-seq), and statistical methods for genomic analyses, analysis of animal science research, and graduate education. Nick teaches statistics to graduate students at ISU and serves as statistics consultant for academic and industry collaborators.

Personal Perspective on Carrier Paths After Grad School

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The Do's and Don'ts to Effective Scientific Posters and Presentations

Overcoming challenges faced in the dairy industry

Careers in Organic and Sustainable Agriculture

Insights into Job Interviews and Negotiating Job Offers

How to Get Your Research Noticed Beyond the Journal of Dairy Science

Creating an Online Presence: Communicating Effectively for Career Development

Show Your Best Self: Techniques to Introduce Yourself in Informal Business Settings

Casein Micelles Structure-Function Properties: Opportunities and Challenges

Academic Research in Dairy Science: A Career for Me?

What a Difference a Name Makes! A Discussion of Misbranded Imitation Dairy Products

Organic Milk: Is it Worth the Price?

Pioneers in Dairy Science Webinar Series

Driving Miss Dairy: The Role of Consumer Emotions in Milk Choice and Consumption Behaviors

Nutritional Regulation of Gastrointestinal Development of the Calf

The DUMPS Story: Serendipity in Dairy Science

Observations During a Career in Teaching and Research

US Dairy Industry: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow

Interaction of Climate and Dairy Cow Biology: Historical, Current, and Future Trends

Bovine Somatotropin: Regulating Nutrient Use to Improve Productive Efficiency and Reduce Carbon Footprint

Future of the Dairy Industry: Looking Back to Look Ahead

Pasture-based Dairy Research: The Past, Present and Future

Dairy-Related Careers: Specialist to Generalist

Seventy Years of Research in Dairy Foods

Dealing with Infertility of Lactating Dairy Cows the "Foster Mothers of the Human Race"

Key Aspects of Applied Calf Nutrition

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