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Geethani Eragoda Arachchilage
Advisors: Dr. Don Flaten (University of Manitoba) and Dr. Darshani Kumaragamage (University of Winnipeg)The effect of flooding and reducing conditions on phosphorus dynamics in Manitoba soils
Wednesday October 2, 2013 2:30
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Capacity for whole systems research expanded with recent faculty additions
The NCLE research community is benefitting from recent academic hires. Drs. Emma McGeough, Claudia Narvaez, Ehsan Khafipour and Kateryn Rochon expand our capacity in forage-cattle systems, meat pathogens and food safety, gut microbiome and animal/human health, and ectoparasites/livestock disease relationships, respectively. They are already applying their expertise through numerous research and education initiatives. See the feature article for details.
Students with the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment awarded for presentation excellence at scientific meetings
July 24 – Jolene Rutter and Sally Parsonage, MSc candidates, and Amanda Taylor and Krista Hanis, PhD candidates, received presentation awards at the joint Manitoba Soil Science Society, Canadian Society of Soil Science and Canadian Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology meetings held in Winnipeg, July 22-25. Their research focuses on greenhouse gas sources and sinks in agricultural systems.
June 19 – Tawnya Ullenboom, MSc candidate, was recognized at the Canadian Society of Animal Science meetings in Banff, AB for her presentation on residual feed intake and greenhouse gas emissions in growing beef bulls.
Scientists recognized for outstanding contributions in their field
July 9 – Canadian Society for Biological Engineering annual meeting: Nazim Cicek, CSBE/SCGAB John Turnbull Award for contributions to Engineering for Agricultural, Food and Biological systems in the area of Waste Management.
June 19 – Canadian Society of Animal Science annual meeting: Karin Wittenberg, CSAS Fellowship Award; Martin Nyachoti, CSAS Excellence in Nutrition and Meat Sciences; and Gary Crow, CSAS Lifetime Membership Award. Read the news release at http://bit.ly/1a67f0n.
Research Update
New project:
Dairy research – Optimizing phosphorus nutrition of dairy cows to reduce whole-farm phosphorus (P) surpluses. Kees Plaizier, Kim Ominski, Emma McGeough and Ehsan Khafipour. The results from this study will be used to develop Beneficial Management Practices that better match the P supplied in feed with cow P needs. Improved management of dietary phosphorus will reduce surpluses of dietary P, P imported as feed and excess P excreted with manure and milk
Publications:
V.L. Tkachuk, D.O. Krause, T.A. McAllister, K.E. Buckley, T. Reuter, S. Hendrick and K.H. Ominski. 2013. Assessing the inactivation of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis during composting of livestock carcasses. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79: 3215-3224.
J.N. Ackerman, F. Zvomuya, N. Cicek and D. Flaten. 2013. Evaluation of manure-derived struvite as a phosphorus source for canola. Can. J. Plant Sci. 93: 419–424.
E.M. Jordaan, B. Rezania and N. Cicek. 2013. Chemical-free nutrient removal and recovery by crystallization. Water Science and Technology. 67: 2195-2201.
Graduate student thesis defense:
Victoria Tkachuk, MSc defense, August: “Inactivation of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and profiles of microbial communities during composting of livestock mortalities” Co-advisors: Kim Ominski and Tim McAllister (AAFC-Lethbridge). Victoria also received the 2012 Graduate Student Teaching Award of Merit from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture for excellence in teaching.
Kane Christiuk, MSc defense, August: “Impact of diet on abundance and virulence properties of Escherichia coli in cattle overwintering environments and dairy cattle” Advisors: Kim Ominski and Terri De Kievit.
