NMPF Sponsors Awards at ADSA Annual Meeting
September 1, 2010
NMPF Sponsors Awards at ADSA Annual Meeting
NMPF presented Dr. Kasey Moyes with the 2010 NMPF Richard M. Hoyt Award at the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, July 13. The NMPF Richard M. Hoyt Award was created to recognize research efforts with direct application to problems of the U.S. dairy industry.
Dr. Moyes received a BS in animal science from Michigan State University, an MS degree in animal science from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois. Moyes’ research examined the effect of negative energy balance on risk of mastitis in lactating dairy cows. This study provided important insights about early immunologic and metabolic changes that occur in the mammary gland as well as mechanisms linking peripartal energy balance with increased incidence of mastitis.
NMPF also presented awards to the winners of the 2010 NMPF Graduate Student Paper Presentation Contest in Dairy Production. Claire Windeyer, from the University of Guelph, and Luís Mendonça, from the University of Minnesota, placed first in the PhD and MS Divisions, respectively. Second and third place awards in the PhD Division were also presented to Xavier Revelo, from the University of Missouri, and Yapa Wickramasinghe, from the University of California-Davis, respectively. Second and third place awardees in the MS Division were Hugo Ramirez-Ramirez, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Anne Laarman, from the University of Alberta, respectively.