As part of a recent collaborative exchange with Dr Yani Garcia’s Dairy Science Group at The University of Sydney, Russ gave a guest lecture to students in the Dairy Production class on all things milk, including a hands-on udder dissection practical lab.
Work from our lab just published in Endocrinology
Congratulations to Grace Berryhill, recent lab alum and now technical scientist at Jackson Laboratories – on May 22nd, Grace received not one, but 2 major awards!
a) the Kinsella Memorial Prize awarded within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for outstanding PhD research, AND
b) the Max Kleiber Memorial Prize awarded for an outstanding dissertation in nutrition and metabolism (for the unacquainted, Dr Kleiber was a former faculty member at UCDavis who is considered to be one of the historical leaders in the field of biochemistry and metabolism: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/alumni/memorial/kleiber-max.html)
Grace’s accomplishments were recognized on May 22nd at a Graduate Studies reception. Congratulations Grace!!
Not according to Grace Berryhill’s recent publication showing that only some fats have the ability to make the mammary glands grow!
Berryhill GE, Miszewski SG, Trott JF, Kraft J, Lock AL, Hovey RC.
Lipids. 2017 Jan 10. doi: 10.1007/s11745-016-4221-2.
Russ recently was part of the University of Sydney’s Dairy Research Symposium in Wagga Wagga at Charles Sturt University. As part of the meeting we were able to demonstrate to dairy producers and others just what is inside the udder!
Full credit to the folks at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for creating this fast-view version!
Endocrinology. 2016 Aug 29:en20161480. Technical Communication: A convenient method for evaluating epithelial cell proliferation in the whole mammary glands of female mice.
Berryhill GE1, Brust-Mascher I2, Huynh JT1, Famula TR1, Reardon C2, Hovey RC1.
Published with colleagues in the UCDavis School of Veterinary Medicine. Grace Berryhill is a PhD student in Animal Biology; Jill Huynh is an undergraduate intern in the Hovey lab.
Congratulations to Grace Berryhill for being awarded best oral presentation at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center “Spotlight on Junior Investigators Symposium”!