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2008 SEVENTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM - LISCOMB MILLS, NOVA SCOTIA

The 2008 Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Comparative Nutrition Society was held August 8-13, 2008 at the Liscombe Resort and Conference Center in Liscomb Mills, Nova Scotia.

 Click on Presentations below to review the oral and poster presentation schedule.

 PRESENTATIONS

The Sue Crissey travel award was given to:

Morag Dick for her abstract Effects of dietary fat source and feeding intensity on the development of fatty liver in the American mink (Neovison vison).

The Malcolm Ramsey travel award was given to:

Julie P. Richmond for her abstract Somatotropic Axis: An endocrine link between nutrient intake and growth rate in free-ranging harbor seals (Phoca vitulina).

Three Presentation awards were given to:

Sarah McCusker for her poster presentation Evaluating the effects of three practical diets on nutritional status, rumen health, and growth of captive mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns.

Jennifer L. Parsons for her oral presentation Temporal effects of bamboo nutritional quality for giant pandas and other foragers.

Alice S. Green for her oral presentation Beta-carotene metabolism in domestic cats.


Angela Schwarm


Jim Atkinson presenting Ramsey travel award to Julie Richmond


Julie Richmond & Genevieve Comeau taming the sea


Rapt attention


Honorary Life Members


Karen Bjorndal presenting oral presentation award to Alice Green


Ray Ball casting off


Scintillating conversation


Andrea Fidget


Dining together 1


Joeke Nijboer


Ann Ward & Kibby Treiber paddle away


Beaver hut


Karen Bjorndal introducing Bob White as an honorary life member


Larry Varner studying poster


Scenery 1


Dining together 2


David Rosen our new fearless leader


Karen Bjorndal introducing Olav Oftedal as an honorary life member


Karen Bjorndal presenting Ramsey travel award to Julie Richmond


Karen Bjorndal presenting oral presentation award to Jennifer Parsons


Karen Bjorndal & Bob White


A Nectivorous Bird


Marcus Clauss


Scenery 2


Honorary life member awards for Ullrey & Stevens


Wendy Hood heading for ocean


Karen Bjorndal introducing Ian Hume as an honorary life member