Meet Prof. Katie Wood Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Katie Wood describes her research on beef cattle metabolism and feed efficiency.

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College
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Text: Prof. Katie Wood
Department of Animal Biosciences
Katie: My research focuses on beef cattle and primarily
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understanding metabolism and feed efficiency.
So we know that if
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you feed two cows the same, one cow will tend to grow a lot better or a lot faster than another,
and so what I'm trying to do is trying to understand that underlying metabolism to see why we see those differences in those animals.
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Katie: One thing I really love about studying cattle is you get to see animals in their environment and then we can take samples and take measurements
on these animals and bring it back to the lab and you start to see differences on the tissue and cell level and even down to the gene level.
And to think about how those small differences in the animal translate to such big differences in the performance of the whole animal
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is really amazing to me.
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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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