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Alltech to present student research award, trace mineral symposium and four posters at the PSA annual meeting

Published: July 16, 2015
Source : Alltech

During the Poultry Science Association (PSA) 104th annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, July 27-30, Alltech will be sponsoring and chairing a symposium, “Changing Insight into the Role of Trace Minerals,” as well as presenting its annual Alltech Student Research Manuscript Award and four research posters.

The 32nd Alltech Student Research Manuscript Award is bestowed upon a student who is the senior author of an outstanding research manuscript in Poultry Science or The Journal of Applied Poultry Research. Alltech has sponsored the award since 2000, recognizing young leaders in scientific innovation for their commitment to publishing and sharing the work within the poultry sector.
The meeting is also significant for Alltech because it will be hosted by the University of Kentucky (UK), with whom Alltech has a long history of research collaboration. In 2012, UK became Alltech’s first formal partner in a global research alliance program that has now grown to 23 partners globally. Alltech’s relationship with the University of Kentucky, however, dates even further back and includes a poultry-specific research partnership that was forged in 2004. The UK Poultry Research facility enables Alltech and UK to conduct joint trials with broilers, egg-type pullets and laying hens, specifically studying microorganisms, alternative strategies to antibiotic growth promoters and nutrient digestibility and bioavailability. The Alltech-University of Kentucky Nutrition Research Alliance has resulted in seven theses, four book chapters, 21 peer-reviewed journal articles and 120 scientific abstracts. Research at UK also provided data for the FDA’s approval of organic selenium in the diets of poultry.
Alltech’s continued commitment and partnership with academia to discover innovative strategies and applicable on-farm data for poultry producers worldwide will be highlighted in the following presentations at the 2015 PSA:
Monday, July 27 — Student Competition: Metabolism and Nutrition: Nutrition I
11:15 a.m.       Use of sorghum and field peas to replace corn and soybean meal in diets for heritage chicken breeds (Tatijana Fisher, Anthony Pescatore, Jacquie Jacob, Austin Cantor, Mike Ford and Tuoying Ao, University of Kentucky
Thursday, July 30 — “Changing Insight into the Role of Trace Minerals” symposium presented and chaired by Alltech
8:00 a.m.         The many faces of trace mineral nutrition: Looking backward, looking forward (P. Ferket, North Carolina State University)
8:30 a.m.         Setting new standards for trace mineral nutrition - differentiating sources based on ability to meet requirements (H. Rostagno, Federal University of Vicosa)
9:00 a.m.         Poultry genetics from a nutritional perspective: How do trace minerals affect gene expression? (C. Ashwell, North Carolina State University)
9:30 a.m.         Focusing on meat quality and consumer acceptance: Dietary mineral form and control of oxidation (F. Rutz, Federal University of Pelotas)
10:30 a.m.       Nutrient-mineral interactions: Understanding effects of minerals on key enzyme functions - in the feed and in physiology (T. Applegate,   Purdue University)
11:00 a.m.       Defining appropriate mineral supplementation and management: New ways to describe the nutritional vales and potential detrimental effects of dietary minerals (K. Dawson, Alltech Inc.)
Thursday, July 30 — Pathology
1:45 p.m.         Comparison of the performance of coccidia vaccinated broiler chickens fed either Natustat® or Natustat® NS (Greg Mathis, Brett Lumpkins, Ted Sefton, and WD King, 1Southern Poultry Research Inc)
Posters — Available for viewing Monday afternoon through Thursday morning.
Location: Ballroom AB.
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Alltech
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