Full Name
Dr. Kim Kwangwook
Job Title
Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis
Company
Managing swine immunity through nutrition – it’s time to make health and nutrition talk to each other!
Speaker Bio
Dr. Kwangwook Kim recently completed his Ph.D. program at the University of California, Davis, with Dr. Yanhong Liu and is continuing his research as a postdoctoral scholar. His dissertation focused on the detrimental impacts of trace amounts of antibiotic and oligosaccharide-based polymer as a potential alternative to antibiotics on weaned pigs. Using an established enterotoxigenic E. coli challenge model, he was able to concurrently study the effects of trace amounts of antibiotic or oligosaccharide-based polymer on growth performance, diarrhea condition, local and systemic immunity, intestinal integrity, and changes in metabolic pathways and intestinal microflora of weaned pigs. Dr. Kim has published 6 peer-reviewed articles and 15 abstracts as the first author. Dr. Kim received the 2020 ASAS Midwest Animal Science Young Scholars Award, the 2021 California Animal Nutrition Conference Scholarship, and he placed first in the 2019 ASAS Midwest Graduate Competition (Ph.D. Division).
Dr. Kim Kwangwook