Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant
University of Connecticut
Glastonbury, Connecticut
Cheyenne Summers is a PhD student in Animal Science at the University of Connecticut. She received her BS in Animal Sciences and her MS in Comparative Bioscience from the University of Illinois, where she researched maternal-fetal interactions during implantation and placentation to investigate factors contributing to early pregnancy failure and subfertility in the mouse. Following her MS degree, she worked as a Research Specialist in Agriculture where she managed the Equine Research and Teaching Unit at the University of Illinois. Under her management, they housed over 80 horses and delivered nearly 30 foals during the breeding season while maintaining AALAC accreditation. Additionally, she taught undergraduate courses and facilitated research between university-owned horses and the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. After her time at the University of Illinois, she joined the University of Connecticut as a Research Assistant. In this role, her primary focus was to support ongoing ovine research projects that explored the impact of maternal nutrition on fetal programming. She is currently a graduate research and teaching assistant at UConn. Her dissertation research focuses on the relationship between metabolic syndrome and ovulation induction in the mare, as well as possible implications of metabolic syndrome during late gestation, parturition, and the health of the developing foal.
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112 - Effects of maternal body condition on colostrum, foal weight, and foal IgG concentration
Monday, July 22, 2024
3:40 PM - 3:55 PM MT