T. D. Schwinghamer

The nasopharyngeal, ruminal, and vaginal microbiota and the core taxa shared across these microbiomes in virgin yearling heifers exposed to divergent in utero nutrition during their first trimester of gestation and in pregnant beef heifers in response to mineral supplementation

This study examines the microbiota of nasopharyngeal, ruminal, and vaginal samples in beef heifers exposed to different in utero nutrition and mineral supplementation, finding little impact on microbiome diversity and identifying shared microbial taxa across body sites.

Quantifying fluorescent glycan uptake to elucidate strain-level variability in foraging behaviors of rumen bacteria

The paper uses fluorescent glycan uptake and genomic analyses to study strain-level differences in carbohydrate metabolism among rumen bacteria.