Garret Suen

Company: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Job title: Associate Professor of Bacteriology

Seminars:

Buccal Swabbing as a Rapid, Non-invasive, & Highly-scalable Method for Sampling the Rumen Microbiome 10:15 am

• A major challenge in applying ruminal microbiome technologies on dairy farms is the inability to rapidly sample the rumen in a non-invasive manner. • Using Buccal swabs can represent 70 – 75% of the ruminal microbiome • This approach presents an opportunity to use shifts in the ruminal microbiome to assess metabolic disease states…Read more

day: Day Two

Rumen Contents Dosing During Calf Development & its Impact on Downstream Milk Production 3:45 pm

• Removal of calves from their dams after birth may impact the development of the ruminal microbiome • This presents an opportunity to influence the development of adult microbiome during calf development. • Rumen contents dosing in calves impacts ruminal microbiome development but does not appear to influence milk productionRead more

day: Day One