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News
October 11, 2013
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Tarleton ‘Shines’ at Polish symposium
by Elizabeth Chilton
Staff Writer
In Sept, of this year, several
Tarleton State University students
were given the opportunity to
participate in an international event.
The fourth annual International
Scientihc Symposium for
PhD Students and Students of
Agricultural Colleges was hosted by
the University of Technology and
Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Five students represented Tarleton.
Callie Price and Elizabeth Casey
had informational posters at the
symposium. Kyle Keahey gave an
oral presentation about Commercial
abattoir food safety intervention
technologies, and Ross Wyatt gave
an oral presentation about improving
beef products for the consumer at
the retail level.
The hnal student representing
Tarleton at the symposium was
Billie Shine, an undergraduate
student who presented research for
the control of filth flies on livestock
operations with condensed tannins.
For her presentation, Shine was
recognized with an Outstanding
Oral Presentation award.
Shine has been working with a
diverse team of Tarleton professors
and PhDs on the research of finding
natural resources to combat insects
that cause problems for animals in
confinement, such as biting of filth
flies.
Shine has been working with
Drs. David Kattes, Jim Muir, Barry
Lambert, Janice Speshock, and
Jeff Brady, who are a veterinary
entomologist, lagoon biologist,
nutritionist, microbiologist, and
molecular biologist, respectively.
Each of these Doctors has added
to the research of the use of the
secondary plant compound tannins
as a way to combat stable fly
populations.
“A stable fly is a biting fly,
and that’s a pretty good problem
for animals in confinement, like
dairies,” Kattes said. “What we’re
looking for are alternative ways of
controlling the stable fly population.
A typical dairyman uses insecticide,
which is fine, but we’re looking for
more natural substances.”
This search was aided by Muir’s
research into secondary plant
compounds, which are natural
chemicals produced by plants.
“These compounds are the plants’
defense against being eaten,” Muir
said. “One of these compounds is
tannins, which is the same thing
found in acorns,
the same thing that
makes wine have
that bitter taste to
it.”
Research by Muir
and Lambert led to
a positive result in
a reduction of fly
populations after
using concentrated
tannins on the
natural ecosystem
of flies. Although
the initial research
was conducted on
the population of
houseflies, Shine
has used it as a base
for further studies
on stable flies.
“What Billie
presented at the conference was
pretty much a review of all of the
research that has been done up until
this point,” Kattes said.
Research is still being conducted
by Shine to determine what effect
tannins have on a microbial and
molecular level. Further research
is also being conducted by another
group to determine compounds
beyond tannins that have similar
effects.
Courtesy
Billie Shine recieved the Outstanding Oral Presentation award for a
presentation at the fourth annual International Scientific Symposium
at the University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Dr. Harold Rathburn of the
Department of Biology is working
with Kelly Hammond and Erica
Hardin on this branching of previous
research.
While much of the research
has been conducted locally, the
presence of Tarleton students at an
international symposium serves as a
quiet reminder that Tarleton students
of all types have no boundaries when
it comes to where they might be
taken with their education and effort.
(Left) Shine's presentation was over the research for the control of filfth flies on livestock operation with condensed tannis. Shine is continuing research on what effect tannis has on a microbial and
molecualr level. (Right) Dr. David Kattes, a veterinary entomologist, helped student Billie Shine in the researh of the use of secondary plant compoun tannies as a way to combat stable fly populations.
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