Tuesday, April 8, 2025

2:50 PM - 3:50 PM

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Sponsored by Teagasc

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Attend this session to see how our early career scientist finalists prove their communication skills as they present their abstracts to the judges. President's Prize Finalists Impact of Early-Life Nutrition on Lifetime Performance and Carcass Composition in Dairy-Bred Bulls J. Abbott1,2, A. K. Kelly2, D. A. Kenny1 1Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath C15 PW93, Ireland 2School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland Effect of grass-only and grass-clover based swards on the growth performance of suckler bred heifers and steers finished at 19.5 months of age P. Bennett1,2, M. McGee1, A. K. Kelly2, M. O'Donovan3, P. Doyle1 1Teagasc Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath C15 PW93, Ireland 2School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland 3Teagasc, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark Research & Development Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork P61 P302, Ireland A genetic analysis of farmer assigned causes of death in lambs K. Hay1, N. Lambe, J. Roden, S. Jarvis, C. Dwyer 1Scotland’s Rural College, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK Exploring the role of miR-127 in dairy cattle: associations with ageing, milk production, and stem cell function M. Macleay1, G. Banos1,2, F. X. Donadeu1 1Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK 2Scotland's Rural College, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK Feeding behaviour in Holstein cattle fed different milk allowances as calves S. O'Callaghan1,2, G. Arnott1, O. C. Carballo2, L. Leal3, G. Scoley2, S. Stergiadis4, D. Seymour3,5 1Queen's University Belfast, University Rd, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK 2Agri-Food and Bioscience Institute, 18a Newforge Ln, Belfast BT9 5PX, UK 3Trouw Nutrition R&D, Blenheim House, Blenheim Road, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1HA, UK 4School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights House, Reading RG6 6UR, UK 5Centre for Nutrition Modelling, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada

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