2000
Hubbard Feeds, Inc. Graduate Award
Hubbard Feeds, Inc.
Poultry
Swine
Uaichai
Puthpongsiriporn was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1971. He obtained a D.V.M.
from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1994. Following graduation, he
practiced at a private animal clinic for a short time and then took a position
as the staff veterinarian on a layer farm. In 1996 he came to the United States
to begin work on his Master’s degree at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Under the supervision of Dr. Sheila E. Scheideler, he completed his thesis on
the “Effects of strain and dietary vitamin E on hen performance, immune, and
antioxidant status during heat stress.” He was graduated in May 1998. Currently, he is working on his
Ph.D. at UNL under Dr. Scheideler. His dissertation topic is “Effects of the
ratio of dietary linoleic to linolenic fatty acid on immune responses and
performance in Leghorn chickens.” The
first trial’s objective was to investigate the influence of a decreased ratio
of dietary linoleic to linolenic fatty acid on immune response to vaccinations
in Leghorn chicks. The second trial will investigate the immunological
mechanisms of linoleic and linolenic acids at the cellular level. In the last
trial, immune responses will be measured in hens given fatty acid treatments of
different ratios and challenged with Newcastle virus. He is planning to
graduate in the summer of 2001. After graduation he would like to work as a
technical consultant for an international animal health or feed company.
Joel Spencer
was raised on a small, diversified farm in western Missouri. He graduated cum
laude in 1996 from the University of Missouri with a B.S. in Animal
Science. Continuing his education at Missouri, Joel received an M.S. degree in
swine nutrition in 1998 and is currently pursuing a doctorate under the
direction of Dr. Gary Allee. During his graduate program, Joel has conducted
several experiments in the commercial swine industry and has been a
nutrition/research intern with several swine production and genetic companies.
In addition to research, Joel has assisted in teaching several nutrition and
animal production courses at the University of Missouri. His research has
included the investigation of nursery pig nutrition, evaluation of modified
grains for growing swine and poultry, nutritional and environmental effects on
energy partitioning, artificial milk rearing of pigs to obtain optimal growth
and sow performance, effects of nutrition on pork quality, and nutritional
methods to reduce and measure the environmental impact of swine and poultry
production. Joel has been the lead author on eight abstracts and four journal
manuscripts. He has been awarded several graduate competition awards, and he
was recently awarded the 1999 superior graduate achievement award at the
University of Missouri. After the completion of his doctorate in the fall of
2001 Joel plans to continue nutrition research.