Meetings and Symposia [Meetings & Symposia]

Symposia and Oral Sessions

While both Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni are frequent causes of human campylobacteriosis, a common conclusion of health care professionals and researchers alike is that C. jejuni is the more pathogenic or virulent species. C. jejuni has been shown to be superior in enterotoxin production, suggesting that C. jejuni is more enterotoxigenic, and as such, potentially more virulent than C. coli. ...

Symposia Abstracts

Do hierarchies within a stem cell lineage consist of a discrete series of stages with progressively narrowing developmental potential, or a continuum with reversible transitions along the way towards the fully differentiated state? Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) cultures are not homogenous but contain a mixed population of cells that we hypothesise represent stages in a differentiation hierar...

Keystone symposia

Symposia and Oral Sessions

This study determined the availability of glycerol as indicator of energy status of broiler chicks during hatch, and the behavior of chicks subjected to three fasting times with reference to production standards. Chicks originating from 31 and 54 week-old Ross breeder flocks were utilized. Samples of liver were taken from chicks during the following time periods: pipping of eggshell, wet hatch,...

Symposia and Oral Sessions

Although the BovineSNP50 BeadChip (Illumina, Inc.) was developed for genomic selection, the results can also be used to validate paternity, to determine the genotyping error rate, the minimum number of SNPs required for paternity validation, and to delete defective SNPs from further analysis. Of 576 Israeli Holstein bulls genotyped, the sire was also genotyped for 204 bulls born between 1982 an...