2025 ASAS Student Competition Results
Undergraduate Poster
3rd Place
Zoe A. Turner, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science
PSIV-13 – Influence of gossypol from cottonseed oil on semen quality in domestic boars as a model for feral hog control.
2nd Place
Logan Kearns, Western Illinois University
PSIV-2 – Comparison of growing bull performance, carcass, and health metrics with or without the use of SenseHub® Feedlot technology.
1st Place
Ean Wetzel, South Dakota State University
PSIV-14 – Effects of DDGS and/or canola meal on rumen microbiome of growing steers.
Graduate Poster MS I
3rd Place
Marisa R. Werner, Colorado State University
PSI-2 – Investigating dietary protein's role in mitigating enteric emissions from finishing beef cattle.
2nd Place
Jose L. Infante, University of Florida
PSI-12 – Predicting active and non-active corpus luteum in early pregnancy using computer vision and machine learning on doppler ultrasound images in beef cattle.
1st Place
Juliet E. Henning, University of Missouri
PSI-13 – Using anogenital distance at pre-breeding examination to predict pregnancy by artificial insemination in yearling beef heifers.
Graduate Poster MS II
3rd Place
Artur Grando Pilati, Texas A&M University
PSllI-15 – The effect of partial replacement levels of steam-flaked corn with high moisture rolled sorghum grain on total tract digestibility of finishing steers.
2nd Place
Mara Johnson, South Dakota State University
PSIII-8 – Shearing during early mid-gestation increases umbilical blood flow and fetal size in ewes.
1st Place
Castle J. Cavender, University of Florida
PSIII-18 – Immune response variation to foreign antigen in a crossbred angus-brahman beef cattle population.
Graduate Poster PHD I
3rd Place
Usamah Kabuye, Iowa State University
PSV-10 – Genetic parameters of disease in growing pigs under a polymicrobial natural disease challenge.
2nd Place
Artur O. Rocha, Purdue University
PSV-17 – Estimates of variance components and genetic parameters for weight, carcass, and reproductive traits in U.S. Suffolk sheep including genomic information.
1st Place
Brietta E. Latham, Washington State University
PSV-12 – Fertility following germline transplantation in sterile NANOS2 knockout surrogate bulls.
Graduate Poster PHD II
3rd Place
Cheyenne S. Summers, University of Connecticut
PSVI-17 – Effect of an insulin bolus during intravenous glucose tolerance tests in horses.
2nd Place
Megan E. Eckhardt, West Texas A&M University
PSVI-4 – Harvest yields and carcass performance data association with increasing finished weights of market hogs.
1st Place
Dallas R. Soffa, Texas A&M University
PSVI-15 – Influences on Bacterial Diversity of the Beef Cow Uterine Microbiome.
