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The Poultry Science Association named Dr. Li Zhang the recipient of its 2026 Early Achievement Award for Research, presented at the PSA Annual Meeting in Toronto.
Manhong Wang’s paper maps the cultivable microbiota of broiler chicken ceca and enables targeted isolation of beneficial bacteria — a foundation for next-generation probiotics.
Ph.D. student Sunita Shrestha won Best Oral Presentation in the SCAD category, and Manhong Wang received a Certificate of Excellence in Pathology plus a travel award at the International Poultry Scientific Forum in Atlanta.
Published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, our reverse vaccinology and host-pathogen analysis identifies pagP as a potential universal vaccine candidate against avian pathogenic E. coli — work also featured in MAFES Discovers.
The lab’s LAMP-based rapid detection assay for Clostridium perfringens — a pathogen that costs the global poultry industry billions — was featured by MAFES Discovers and The Microbiologist.