Dr. Makagon is Guest Editing a Special Issue of Animals
Dr. Makagon will serve as the Guest Editor for a waterfowl-focused issue of Animals (scientific journal). Articles will be published,…
New publication: a systematic review of KBF prevalence research
We are excited to share with you our most recent publiction, available via open access: https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/98/Supplement_1/S36/5894015
Maja Makagon judges the Perdue Farms Chicken Enrichment Contest
Maja Makagon joined Temple Grandin and Richard Swartzentruber as an invited judge for the finale of the Perdue Farms Chicken…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Congratulations ALLISON!
Allison is the recipient of the Ursula Abbott Travel Award. The award will help fund her trip to the Annual…
Congratulations ESSAM!
Congratulations to Dr. Essam Abdelfattah who was nominated for the UC Davis Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award!
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