Aghata Silva, PhD

Post Doc
University of Alabama, Auburn

Aghata Silva is a Master of Science and currently a PhD candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Animal and Rangeland Science program. She completed her bachelors in Animal Science and her Master Degree with emphasis in grazing beef cattle nutrition. Her current research focus on how nutrition can affect water requirements and efficiency of water usage of beef cattle, and the molecular mechanisms underlying it.

Poster(s):

• PSIV-5 - High desert hemp varieties under varied nitrogen fermentation techniques effects on its utilization as livestock feed through in vitro fermentation
  Tuesday, July 18, 2023

  12:00 PM – 1:15 PM MT

• PSIV-25 - Investigating the use of cover crop inclusion and preservation in silages with addition of molasses, homofermentative and heterofermentative bacterial mixes
  Tuesday, July 18, 2023

  12:00 PM – 1:15 PM MT

• PSIV-26 - Development of a controlled exposure particulate and oxidative radical mask for causality experiments investigating smoke exposure on livestock animals
  Tuesday, July 18, 2023

  12:00 PM – 1:15 PM MT

• PSVI-27 - Evaluation of coated and non-coated seed species pertinent to the Great basin in response to in vitro ruminal incubation
  Tuesday, July 18, 2023

  3:00 PM – 4:15 PM MT

• PSXIV-16 - Evaluation of water intake equations with an emphasis on physiological status and evaluation of current relevance behind environmental parameters
  Wednesday, July 19, 2023

  2:45 PM – 3:45 PM MT

• PSXIII-20 - The effect of hemp varieties and cannabidiol levels on the in vitro ruminal microbiome
  Wednesday, July 19, 2023

  1:30 PM – 2:30 PM MT