Kara J. Thornton, PhD

Assistant Professor
Utah State University
Logan, Utah

Dr. Kara Thornton, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences Department at Utah State University. In 2009, She earned her BS in Honors Animal Science and a minor in Spanish from Washington State University. She then moved eight miles across the border and completed her doctoral studies in skeletal muscle physiology at the University of Idaho in 2013. Next, Dr. Thornton worked as a post-doctoral research associate at University of Minnesota, where she received additional training in skeletal muscle growth. In 2015, she joined USU faculty and runs a research program focusing on the effects of nutrition and growth in livestock animals.

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Presentation(s):

• 244 - FGF-21 myokine expression by cultured bovine satellite cells from 3- and 11-month-old steers

  Tuesday, July 18, 2023
  11:15 AM – 11:30 AM MT

• Growth and Development Symposium

  Tuesday, July 18, 2023
  1:45 PM – 5:15 PM MT

• 361 - The Effects of Feeding Sprouted Barley on Cow Calf Pairs Health and Performance

  Wednesday, July 19, 2023
  3:30 PM – 3:45 PM MT

• 376 - Effects of mineral supplementation during range grazing on ovine performance

  Wednesday, July 19, 2023
  4:00 PM – 4:15 PM MT

• 373 - Effects of different trace mineral supplementation strategies on liver mineral status and gene expression of at-risk mineral deficient feedlot cattle

  Thursday, July 20, 2023
  10:00 AM – 10:15 AM MT