Journal of Animal Science, Volume 94, E-Supplement 5
Journal of Dairy Science^®, Volume 99, E-Supplement 1

2016 Annual Meeting Abstracts
American Dairy Science Association^®
American Society of Animal Science

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Complete Abstract Book

JAS Masthead
JDS^® Masthead
Table of Contents
Author Index

ASAS Western Section Graduate Student Paper Competition

ASAS Western Section Undergraduate Student Poster Competition

ASAS Western Section Young Scholars

Meeting Today’s Animal Care Standards: Are You Ready?

ADSA Production Division Symposium: Robotic Dairying: Adapting Farm and Business Management

ADSA-SAD (Student Affiliate Division) Undergraduate Student Oral Competition: Dairy Foods

ADSA-SAD (Student Affiliate Division) Undergraduate Student Oral Competition: Dairy Production

ADSA-SAD (Student Affiliate Division) Undergraduate Student Oral Competition: Original Research

ADSA-SAD (Student Affiliate Division) Undergraduate Student Poster Competition

Strategies for Managing Heifers in the Southeast

Animal Behavior and Well-Being

Animal Behavior and Well-Being Symposium: Metrics for On-Farm Animal Welfare Assessment—Current State and Future Needs

Understanding Inflammation and Inflammatory Biomarkers to Improve Animal Performance

Cell Biology Symposium: Membrane Trafficking and Signal Transduction

ASAS Graduate Student Symposium

ASAS Undergraduate Student Poster Competition

ASAS/ASN Joint Symposium: Gut, Microbiota, Diet and Health

Beef Species Symposium: Improving Welfare of Beef Cattle

Bioethics Symposium

Advances in Bovine Respiratory Disease

Breeding and Genetics

Symposium: Resilience of Livestock to Changing Environments

EAAP Symposium: Genomic Selection is Transforming Cattle Breeding

Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) ASAS-ISAG Joint Symposium

Companion Animal

Companion Animal Symposium: Behavior and the Human-Animal Bond

Companion Animal Symposium: Fundamentals of Protein Nutrition

Comparative Gut Physiology

Comparative Gut Physiology Symposium

Contemporary and Emerging Issues Symposium: Communicating Animal Sciences Effectively

CSAS Graduate Student Oral Competition

CSAS Graduate Student Poster Competition

CSAS Symposium: Reducing the Use of Antibiotics in Livestock Production

Dairy Foods Division

Dairy Foods Division Symposium: Advances in Sustainability within the Dairy Processing Industry

Dairy Foods Division Symposium: Increasing Utilizations of Dairy Co-Products

Extension Education

Extension Education Symposium: Growing Extension’s Impacts with Changing Budgets and Personnel

Food Safety Symposium: The Spectrum of Food Safety Improvement in Foods of Animal Origin

Forages and Pasture

Forages and Pastures Symposium: Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Pasture-Based Dairy and Beef Cattle Systems

Genomics Symposium: Translational Genomics to Improve Fertility of Animals

ADSA-ASAS Northeast Section Graduate Student Oral Competition

ADSA Dairy Foods Graduate Student Oral Competition

ADSA Dairy Foods Graduate Student Poster Competition

ADSA Production Division Graduate Student Oral Competition: MS

ADSA Production Division Graduate Student Oral Competition: PhD

ADSA Production Division Graduate Student Poster Competition: MS

ADSA Production Division Graduate Student Poster Competition: PhD

ADSA-Southern Section Graduate Student Oral Competition

Growth and Development

Growth and development Symposium: New –omics Technologies to Understanding the Biological Processes and Network Pathways Associated with Cattle Growth and Health

Triennial Growth and Development Symposium

Horse Species Symposium: Nutrition and Immunology

Horse Species Symposium: Urban Students in Animal Science and the Impact of Equine Programs

International Animal Agriculture

International Animal Agriculture Symposium: The Future of Pastoral Production Systems

Lactation Biology

Livestock Water Symposium

Meat Science and Muscle Biology

Meat Science and Muscle Biology Symposium: Science of Red Meat Consumption

Milk Protein and Enzymes

Milk Symposium: Marketing Milk for Entrepreneurial and Big Business Value

Nonruminant Nutrition

Beef Cattle Nutrition Symposium: A Look at the Latest Beef Cattle NRC Recommendations

Non-Nutrition: The Future of Nutrition?

Physiology and Endocrinology

Physiology and Endocrinology Symposium: Pre- and Post-Natal Impacts on Offspring Performance

Physiology, Endocrinology, and Extension Symposium: Enhancing Adoption of Reproductive Management Tools for Beef and Dairy Producers

Production, Management and Environment

Production, Management and the Environment Symposium: Impacts of Livestock Production on Environmental Reactive Nitrogen

Big Data in Animal Science: Uses for Models, Statistics and Meta-Approaches

Ruminant Nutrition

Ruminant Nutrition: Western Section

Small Ruminant Symposium: Enhancing Small Ruminant Profitability

Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate Education Symposium: Animal Science Education in the Current Environment

Toxic Plants Symposium