Purdue VCS Graduate Students Win Awards at Annual American Dairy Science Meeting

Dr. Rafael Neves with VCS graduate students Natnicha Taechachokevivat (left) and Lisa Avila Granados, who both won awards in the ADSA Annual Meeting Graduate Student Competition.

Two graduate students who are members of the Dr. Rafael Neves Lab in the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine were honored at the recent American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. Held June 22-25, the conference is billed as a cornerstone event in dairy science, where participants explore the latest research, share innovative practices, and advance the science of dairy.

One of the components of the annual meeting is the ADSA Graduate Student Competition. Congratulations to the following Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS) Department graduate students who won awards in the contest:

Natnicha Taechachokevivat received the First Place Award in the ADSA-Graduate Student Competition: Production Division (PhD Oral), for her work entitled, “Relationships between systemic inflammation, subclinical hypocalcemia, and hyperketonemia in clinically healthy Holstein cows.”
Lisa Avila Granados, DVM, was awarded 2nd place in the ADSA-Graduate Student Competition: Production Division (MS Oral) for her work entitled, “Skeletal muscle transcriptome changes associated with ketosis in postpartum dairy cows.”

Both award winners are part of the Purdue Veterinary Clinical Sciences Graduate Program and members of the Neves Lab. “Their achievement is a recognition of their hard work,” said Dr. Neves, associate professor of food animal ambulatory in the VCS Department and section head of the Bovine Field Service.

The ADSA is an international organization of educators, scientists, and industry representatives who are committed to advancing the dairy industry and keenly aware of the vital role the dairy sciences play in fulfilling the economic, nutritive, and health requirements of the world’s population. The association promotes the creation, dissemination, and exchange of scientific and technical knowledge to improve and sustain the global dairy sector, to the benefit of humankind.

Writer(s): Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu

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