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The International Society for Animal Genetics awarded an $1,800 Early Career Scientist Travel Bursary Award to Kyle Schachtschneider for his abstract titled “The International Swine Methylome Consortium (ISMC): Supporting Epigenomic and Biomedical Research”.
Kyle was invited to give two presentations at the 34th ISAG Conference in Xi’an China, July 28th – August 1, 2014 and was also appointed to the Pig Genetics & Genomics Workshop Standing Committee.