February 10, 2020
Jeremy Marchant-Forde to present Anatomy and Physiology Seminar
Jeremy Marchant-Forde, a 1xbet online games login animal scientist with USDA Agricultural 1xbet online games login Service, will present "Dietary Modification of Behavior and Gut Microbiome in Swine" as part of the Anatomy and Physiology Seminar series. His presentation will start at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the Mara Conference Center, 407 Trotter Hall.
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Marchant-Forde is the author/editor of four books and more than 230 refereed articles and abstracts on farm animal welfare and his 1xbet online games login has attracted .5 million of grant funding. He is specialty section editor for Frontiers in Veterinary Science and is a past president of the International Society for Applied Ethology.