Christina delivers a series of chicken talks
Christina Rufener (post doc) gave a talk at the Postdoctoral Scholar Association’s annual conference at UC Davis, and presented at…
Dr. Makagon and Allison Pullin take on Bristol
In March, Dr. Makagon along with Allison Pullin (graduate student) and Dr. Blatchford traveled to Bristol, UK to meet with…
Makagon Lab helps host Australian animal welfare researchers
The Animal Science Center for Animal Welfare, including the Makagon Lab, hosted animal welfare scientists from CSIRO, Armidale for a…
Congrats to our Jastro-Shields Award Recipients!
Congratulations to Lindsey Broadus and Allison Pullin. They each received a Jastro-Shields Award through the Animal Behavior Graduate Group! The…
Allison Pullin receives scholarship award!
CONGRATULATIONS Allison! Allison received an award from the Western Poultry Scholarship and Research Foundation!
Brittany and Zahira present at PEPA!
Brittany Wood and Zahira Budeguer (undergraduate student) represented the Makagon Lab at the annual meeting of the Pacific Egg and…
Brittany Wood and Dr. Makagon present at IPSF
Brittany Wood and Maja Makagon, and collaborator Dr. Richard Blatchford presented original research at the International Poultry Science Forum, hosted…
Animal Welfare Judging Teams featured in The California Aggie
The Animal Welfare Judging Teams co-coached by Allison Pullin (PhD student in the Makagon Lab) was featured in the California…
Welcome Christina!
Christina Rufener has joined the Makagon and Blatchford labs as a post-doctoral scholar. She brings with her a wealth…
CONGRATULATIONS COACH ALLISON!
Makagon lab grad student, Allison Pullin, co-coached the first ever UC Davis undergraduate and graduate teams for competition at the…
Newest publication from the Makagon Lab
Hot off the press: the results of a collaborative project we conducted with researchers from Michigan State University, Purdue University…
Allison’s work featured in The Ethogram
Allison wrote an article about her research for The Ethogram (the official Blog of the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate…
Thank you Essam!
Dr. Essam Abdelfattah has taken on a new research opportunity as Visiting Scholar in Dr. Amy McLean’s lab, where he…
Allison gave a talk at ISAE
Allison Pullin (PhD student) gave an oral presentation at the Annual Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology, help…
Brittany presented at the Perdue Animal Care Summit
Brittany Wood, M.S. student, gave an informative overview of her ongoing M.S. work at the Perdue Animal Care Summit, in…