Students, Faculty Present at Animal Science Conference

For Immediate Release
November 13, 2001

Greensboro, NC: Students and faculty from the Department of Animal Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University recently attended the International Animal Agriculture and Food Science Conference in Indianapolis, where many presented papers.

Among those presenting were:

• Dr. Willie Willis – “Campylobacter jejuni Isolation Trends of Broilers Reared on Different Bedding Materials”

• Dr. Mulumbet Worku – “Differential Tyrosine Phosphorylation on Bovine PMN”

• Jenora Waterman (student) and Worku – “Bovine PMN Release the COX-2 Protein when Stimulated with Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide”

• Patricia Matterson, Sommer Knight (student) and Worku – “Modulation of Apoptosis in Bovine Blood PMN by Actinomycin-D, Lipopolysaccharide, and Sodium Butyrate”

• Knight, Worku and Matterson – “Techniques for RNA Isolation and cDNA Integrity in Bovine Blood PMN”

• Amy Johnston-Ward (student), Knight and Worku – “Isolation of Membrane Protein Associated with IgM Binding from Bovine Neutrophils”

Others from A&T attending were Drs. Charles Talbott, Ray McKinnie, Charles Kadzere and David Libby.

Over 4,000 academicians and other professionals participated in the international meeting, which was jointly hosted by the American Dairy Science Association, American Society of Animal Science, Poultry Science Association and the Reciprocal Meat Conference of the American Meat Science Association.

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