Past Events

The M.Sc. Defence for Ashley Nixon has been scheduled for Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 @ 9:00 a.m. in Room 030, Animal Science & Nutrition Building.   The examining committee will consist of: Examining Chair: Renee Bergeron         Advisor: Wendy Pearson Adv. Committee Member: Mark Hurtig Additional Member: Niel Karrow   Thesis Title: “Effect of adipose tissue on inflammatory and catabolic response of cartilage to lipopolysaccharide.”.

   

The Ph.D. Defence for Aitor Arrazola has been scheduled for Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m. in Room 141, Animal Science & Nutrition Building. The examining committee will consist of: Examining Chair: Wendy Pearson Advisor: Stephanie Torrey Adv. Committee Member: Elijah Kiarie Additional Member: Gregoy Bedecarrats External Examiner: Ingrid de Jong   Thesis Title: “The effect of alternative feeding strategies for broiler breeder pullets throughout the production cycle”.

​Reminder of the next departmental meeting in ANNU 141.. ​Just a heads up, in 2018 our departmental meetings will take place every third Friday of the month, at 2:30 PM. Wendy already booked the room for us. Thank you. Diana

The M.Sc. Defence of Kayo Takeshima has been scheduled for Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 1:30 p.m. in Room 141, Animal Science & Nutrition Building. The examining committee will consist of: Examining Chair: Georgia Mason          Advisor: Gregoy Bedecarrats                              Adv. Committee Member: Stephanie Torrey Additional Member: Martin Zuidhof   Thesis Title: “Optimizing lighting for precision broiler breeder feeding”.  

The Ph.D. Defence for Ivelisse Robles has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 9:00 a.m. in Room 141, Animal Science & Nutrition Building.     The examining committee will consist of: Examining Chair:  Angela Canovas Advisor: Trevor Devries Adv. Committee Member: Marina von Keyserlingk Additional Member:  Renee Bergeron External Examiner:  Peter Krawczel   Thesis Title: “Impact of dairy cow resting area on hygiene, behaviour and milk quality”.

The M.Sc. Defence for Emma Nip has been scheduled for Thursday, September 6th, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m. in Room 141, Animal Science & Nutrition Building.   The examining committee will consist of: Examining Chair:  Gregoy Bedecarrats              Advisor:  Georgia Mason Adv. Committee Member: Lee Niel Additional Member:  Renee Bergeron   Thesis Title: “The long-term effects of environmental enrichment on female agonism in C57BL/6, DBA/2 and BALB/c mice”.  

The M.Sc. Defence for Alison Sullivan has been scheduled for Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 @ 1:30 p.m. in Room 141, Animal Science & Nutrition Building.   The examining committee will consist of: Examining Chair: Flavio Schenkel Advisor: Andy Robinson Adv. Committee Member: Ira Mandell Additional Member: Angela Canovas   Thesis Title: “Developing new phenotyping strategies to allow for real-time belly primal selection in Canadian breeding hogs”.