Yesterday I had the chance to participate in Teagasc events for the Festival of Farming and Food, in the frame of SFI Science Week 2018. On the 13th and 14th of November, Teagasc Grange hosted primary school students from the locality as well as from the Trinity Access Programme and secondary school students from local schools. The […]
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So farm visits have finally kicked off! Although cows are currently in late lactation we hopefully will have enough time to sample about half of the target farms before they house the animals in late November. Eoin Ryan (UCD) has been joining me in the farm visits, what’s been a massive help. He has great experience as […]
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In the last couple of weeks we have received from Glanbia a list of their suppliers that includes farms with an alleged problem of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. In order to set a criteria to include farms we have followed the directions described in Boss et al. (2016). This paper presents a wide genomic […]
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Glanbia Ireland is a 60:40 joint venture between Glanbia Co-op and Glanbia plc. Glanbia is Ireland’s #1 dairy company, annually processing over 2 billion litres of milk into a range of ingredients for export to more than 60 countries. Parent company, Glanbia plc, is a global nutrition group, grounded in nature and science. Glanbia plc […]
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Probably the most ambitious activity I chose to include in my fellowship Training & Development Plan was to enrol in an 18 month postgraduate programme. This is definitely challenging, as most of the lectures and assignments will have to be attended in my free time. However, I did feel this would help me develop skills on […]
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According to the definition of the Intenational Dairy Federation (IDF), mastitis is defined as an inflammatory reaction of the mammary gland and represents an indicator of the udder health status. This disease has a wide impact over animal welfare and production, and produces great economic losses in the dairy industry. This is specially evident in […]
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BEEF2018 has been my first involvement in a Teagasc event since I started my fellowship early this month. Organised approximately every two years at the Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre (Grange), this event is well attended by farmers, who have an opportunity to see first-hand results of the comprehensive research and innovation programme at Teagasc and […]
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A few weeks after my incorporation to Teagasc I am finally starting to blend in. People in Grange have been extremely nice and helpful and I am convinced that Teagasc will be a great environment to develop as a scientist and to create new research networks. Teagasc Animal & Bioscience Research Department (ABRD) was […]
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This is Javier Caballero, a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the MSCA CAROLINE Programme. During the two years of my fellowship I will try to keep this blog updated and let you know everything about my research project as well as some hints about science, veterinary medicine and farming. Stay tuned!
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