Animal Sciences Ph.D. student awarded travel grant for Plant and Animal Genomics Conference
Hunter McConnell, an Animal Sciences Ph.D. student, has been awarded the NRSP8 Travel Award to attend the 2025 Plant and Animal Genomics Conference (PAG32) in January. In addition to travel expenses and registration costs, McConnell will be recognized at the conference and is invited to give a lightening talk and present a poster featuring her research at the conference.
The six-day PAG32 is the largest ag-genomics meeting in the world and is designed to provide a forum on recent developments and future plans for plant & animal genome projects.
Robert Schnabel, associate professor of animal sciences, serves as McConnell’s advisor.
CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):
Reid Smeda, Valor EZ Herbicide2 – Non-target Terrestrial Plant Spray Drift Study, Stone Environmental, 9/1/24-6/30/25, $15,594
Feng Lin, Screening and Selecting Non-Xtend Soybeans for Dicamba Tolerance, University of Arkansas (Mid-South Soybean Board), 4/1/24-3/31/25, $30,000
Jaapna Dhillon, Dietary Ketone Supplementation as a Novel Therapy to Attenuate the Adverse Cardiorenal Consequences of High Dietary Salt in Middle-aged and Older Adults, Indiana University (NIH), 8/1/24-7/31/25, $11,694
Amy Petry, Testing Trial for Metabolizable Energy of UHP-LO Soybean Meal in Pigs, Benson Hill Biosystems, 10/1/24-9/30/25, $87,500
Andrew Scaboo, SOYGEN3: Building capacity to increase soybean genetic gain for yield and composition through combining genomics-assisted breeding with characterization of future environments, University of Minnesota (N Ctl Soybean Res Program), 10/1/24-9/30/25, $30,000
Bhanu Telugu, Generation and characterization of a novel porcine model of Choroideremia, Foundation Fighting Blindness, 6/30/24-6/29/27, $59,977.50
Rebecca Mott, Farm Stress Training for Farm Service Agency: Continuing Training, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (NIFA), 8/1/24-9/1/26, $80,000
Feng Lin, Screening soybean germplasm and breeding soybeans for flood tolerance, Mid-South Soybean Board, 4/1/24-3/31/25, $175,440
Bradley Wilson, Pix management in Cotton Comparing Aggressive and Passive Cultivars, Cotton, Inc., 1/1/25-12/31/25, $16,000
Gurpreet Kaur, On-farm demonstrations for precision nitrogen management, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 9/5/24-9/30/26, $133,944.03
Mike Stambaugh, Incorporating Fire into Ecological Site Description State-and-Transition Models, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 9/19/24-6/30/27, $450,000
Chase Floyd, Evaluating Termination Timing of Insecticides for Cotton Production in Missouri, Cotton, Inc., 1/1/25-12/31/25, $15,000
Chase Floyd, Evaluation of Tarnished Plant Bug Management in Cotton Production with Surrounding Corn Production, Cotton, Inc., 1/1/25-12/31/25, $5,000
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