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Research Trainee Participation is a Bonus to Teaching Aims in the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex Coordinated Agricultural Project

Thursday, August 21, 2014: 10:30 AM
Cypress Room (The Westin Bayshore)
Milton G. Thomas , Colorado State University, Department of Animal Sciences, Fort Collins, CO
Natalie F. Berge , Colorado State University, Department of Animal Sciences, Fort Collins, CO
Richard Mark Enns , Colorado State University, Department of Animal Sciences, Fort Collins, CO
Robert Hagevoort , New Mexico State University, Clovis, NM
Timothy T. Ross , New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Alison L. Van Eenennaam , University of California - Davis, Davis, CA
Holly L. Neibergs , Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Joseph S Neibergs , Washington State University, Pullman, WA
James E Womack , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Abstract Text: Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) causes morbidity and mortality. The general research objective of this coordinated agriculture project (CAP) is to use genomic approaches to identify chromosome regions and genes associated with susceptibility to BRDC. This CAP involves 7 institutions and 21 investigators. Results from six research aims are being translated to cattle industries via selective breeding tools and improved methods for disease prevention (http://www.brdcomplex.org/). The translational effort is also encompassed in short-course and web-based teaching efforts. Additionally, this CAP supports research trainees (i.e., graduate students, postdocs, undergraduate research interns). Within the first three years of this five year program, 68 research trainees participated. The number of research trainees illustrates a benefit of the CAP as only 14 of these students were directly funded by the grant. Therefore, the BRDC-CAP is helping solve disease challenges in cattle industries and providing research-based educational opportunities.

Keywords:

Cattle

Genomics

Research Trainees

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