Collaborative project with Dr. Sofia Ortega (University of Missouri)

We recently hosted Dr. Sofia Ortega and one of her graduate students, Katy Stoecklein, from the Division of Animal Sciences at University of Missouri for a collaborative project to determine the effect of a modified embryo culture media on fertility in beef cattle. Control and treated embryos were transferred into recipient beef cows andĀ  day 15 conceptuses were recovered, evaluated and frozen for subsequent gene expression analysis. It was a pleasure to host our colleagues and provide members of the OSU repro lab (Ben Duran, Alex Incarnato and Shaun Wellert) with trainingĀ  on the collection and evaluation of conceptuses from cattle. Looking forward to continue collaborating with the Ortega lab.