2023 Midwest ASAS Annual Meeting

April 17, 2023

MSU ANS presence at 2023 Midwest ASAS Annual Meeting.

MSU attendees at the MW ASAS annual meeting. Back row L to R: Grace Schmidt, Erika Eckhardt, Melanie Pimentel Concepcion, Cathy Ernst, Kwangwook Kim, Jongkyoo Kim, Andrea Luttman, Bora Lee. Front row members of MSU AQ team L to R: Kourt Frame, Reanna Byrnes, Ramzee Miller, Kasey Matusik. Not pictured: Dan Buskirk, Dale Rozeboom, Veronica Polniak, several undergraduates.

The annual meeting of the Midwest Section American Society of Animal Science was held March 13-15 in Madison, WI. MSU was represented at the meeting by several graduate students and faculty. In addition to the scientific meeting, the regional Academic Quadrathlon competition took place March 12-13 with lab practicals and oral presentations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 12, and the written exam and quiz bowl held with the conference in downtown Madison on March 13. A special thanks to Andrea Luttman who advised the AQ team this year.

Abstract No.	Presentation Title	Authors* * = presenting author	Notes
65	Associations between resilience to weaning stress and startle response in nursery-age gilts	B Lee*, AM Luttman, CW Ernst, NE Raney, JP Steibel, JM Siegford	Participated in MS Oral Competition
93	Feedlot performance, carcass traits, and feeder calf value of beef × Holstein and Holstein steers	M Pimentel-Concepcion*, J Jaborek, JP Schweihofer, A Garmyn, M McKendree, BJ Bradford, A Hentschl, D Buskirk
193	Creatine Monohydrate on In Vitro Cultivated Bovine Cells leading to Guanidinoacetic Acid Supplementation In Vivo	EP Eckhardt*, W Kim, J Kim
205	Relationship of resiliency to weaning stress with growth, carcass, and meat quality traits in pigs	AM Luttman*, GE Schmidt, NE Raney, JP Steibel, CW Ernst
270	Cellular response to heat exposure: Influences on the growth potential of bovine skeletal muscle and adipose tissue	J Kim*
316	Awardee Talk: Development and assessment of predictive models for improved swine farming	J Han*	Animal Science Young Scholar Award; Advisor J Steibel
PSI-A-10	Correlations of NR3C1 gene expression with pork quality and carcass characteristics	GE Schmidt, AM Luttman, JP Steibel, NE Raney, CW Ernst	1st Place Undergraduate Poster Competition; Advisors A Luttman & C Ernst