More than 50 students presented in the fifth annual CAFES Spring Student Research Symposium on May 20 at the JUSTIN and J. LOHR Center for Wine and Viticulture with undergraduate and graduate students from throughout the college presenting their recent research during a poster session. See a full list of the participants and their projects.

Undergraduate winners:

1^st Hannah Shinnerl, Animal Science major, advised by Mark Edwards and Darin Bennett: “Evaluation of the Effects of Dietary Uronema spp. on the Growth Performance, Feed Intake and Feed Conversion Ratio of Broiler Chickens”

2^nd Jasmine Moallem, Animal Science major, advised by Ike Kang: “Effect of Dietary Micro Algae Supplementation in Broiler Chicken Carcass and Meat Quality”

3^rd Annika Malmstrom-Smith, Animal Science major, advised by Heather Harris: “Domoic Acid Exposure in Leatherback Sea Turtles Along the West Coast of North America”

Graduate winners:

1^st Jack Koster, Master’s in Agriculture, specialization in Plant Science, advised by Shashika Hewavitharana: “An Integrated Approach for Controlling Verticillium Wilt in Strawberry”

2^nd Evelyn Alvarez-Mendoza, Master’s in Agriculture, specialization in Crop Science, advised by Shunping Ding: “Fungicide Resistance of Botrytis cinerea Populations on Wine Grapes in the Central Coast of California”

3^rd Nora Bales, Master’s of Science in Environmental Sciences and Management, advised by Yamina Pressler: “Investigating the Relationship Between Biological Soil Crust and a Federally Threatened Plant (Hooveria purpurea var. purpurea) Found on California’s Central Coast”