Animal Science Research Poster Session Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the animal science graduate and undergraduate research poster session on April 8, 2022. Below is the list of all the winners and their winning poster presentations.

Undergraduate Students

1st Place: Olivia Kittle
Testing a custom computer vision system for automatically detecting piglet interbirth interval.
Olivia Kittle, Suzanne M. Leonard
Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University

People’s Choice — Olivia Kittle
Testing a custom computer vision system for automatically detecting piglet interbirth interval.
Olivia Kittle, Suzanne M. Leonard
Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University

Master’s Graduate Students

1st Place: Nicole Valliere
Evaluation of supplemental feeding behavior in Katahdin lambs divergently selected for fecal egg count.
Nicole Valliere¹, Lee Wright², Scott Greiner³, Scott Bowdridge⁴, and Andrew Weaver^{1 1}Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, ² Southwest Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Virginia Tech, ³Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech, and ⁴Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, West Virginia University

2nd Place: Molly Alexander
Trilostane effectively reduces Progesterone Synthesis prior to Acquisition of Luteolytic Capacity in Cyclic Gilts.
Alexander, M.K.,^*1 Giurgis, M.¹, Wang, X.¹, Gadsby, J.E.², Poole, D.H.^{1 1} Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University, ²Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University

People’s Choice: Nicole Valliere
Evaluation of supplemental feeding behavior in Katahdin lambs divergently selected for fecal egg count.
Nicole Valliere¹, Lee Wright², Scott Greiner³, Scott Bowdridge⁴, and Andrew Weaver^{1 1}Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, ² Southwest Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Virginia Tech, ³ Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech, and ⁴Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, West Virginia University

Ph.D. Graduate Students

1st Place: Bangmin Liu
Functional roles of adrenomedullin in conceptus development during peri-implantation period of pregnancy in pigs.
Bangmin Liu^1,2, Sudikshya Paudel^1,2, Magdalina J. Cummings^1,2, Jorge A. Piedrahita² and Xiaoqiu Wang^{1,2 1} Department of Animal Science and ² The Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University

2nd Place: KaLynn Harlow
Immortalized gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons as an in vitro model to study central inflammatory response.
KaLynn Harlow¹, Mareca Lodge ², Arion Kennedy ², Casey Nestor^{1 1}Department of Animal Science and ²Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University

People’s Choice: Larissa Silva
A standardized flavonoid-rich extract of Moringa oleifera to treating chronic inflammatory diseases: from farm to pharmacy.
Larissa Silva^1,2,3, Jade Schlam^1,2, Thirumurugan Rathinasabapathy¹, Leandro Ferreira³, Silvana Zucolotto^1,2,3, and Debora Esposito^1,2, ¹ Plants for Human Health Institute, North Carolina State University, NCRC, Kannapolis, NC; ²Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University; ³ Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil