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Mickey Latour
 

Mickey Adams Latour

Associate Professor of Animal Sciences

Department: Animal Sciences
Phone: 765.494.8011
Fax: 765.494.6816
Office: SMTH 204A
E-mail: mlatour@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Extension Poultry Specialist

 

Education: B.S., Southeastern Louisiana; M.S. and Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Post-doctoral training: National Institutes of Health Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine

Program Areas:

Dr. Latour has a three-way appointment (50% teaching, 25% extension, and 25% research). To see more about each program, visit the websites below.

Research Program

Teaching

Extension Program

 

 

- Recent Publications

Latour, M. A., B. T. Richert, A. P. Schinckel, J. Radcliffe, & H. White (2008). Effects of feeding restaurant grease, tallow and conjugated linoleic acid on finishing pig carcass and growth performance. American Registry of Professional Animal Sciences, 24(2), 156-160.

White, H., J. Burgess, s. donkin, A. P. Schinckel, B. T. Richert, & M. A. Latour (2008). Effects of temperature stress on growth performance and bacon quality in grow-finish pigs housed at two densities. Animal Science, 86((8)), 1789-1798.

Whei, Z., S. L. Neuman, M. A. Latour, & P. Hester (2008). The effect of in ovo injection of L-carnitine on hatchability of White Leghorns. Poultry Science, 87(3), 569-572.

Whei, Z., S. Neuman, M. A. Latour, & P. Hester (2008). The effect of male and female supplementation of L-carnitine on reproductive traits of White Leghorns. Poultry Science, 87((6)), 1171-1181.

White, H., & M. A. Latour (2008). The Impact of Added Diet Fat on Carcass Fat Quality. Swine Nutrition Conference Proceedings. http://www.thepigsite.com/articles/2116/the-impact-of-added-diet-fat-on-carcass-fat-quality

Schinckel, A. P., & M. A. Latour (2008). The Influence of Dried Distillers’ Grains.

Latour, M. A. (2005). Animal Science and Industry. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Latour, M. A. (2004). Nutritional alternations in layer hens.

Latour, M. A. (2004). Lipid Markers in market pigs. BASF Corp.

Babbs, C. F., M. B. Alzghoul, & M. A. Latour (2004). Optimization of ectopic gene expression in skeletal muscle through DNA transfer by electroporation. Biotechnology.

 

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- Awards & Honors

Teaching Academy Fellow (2008). Purdue University.

NACTA Fellow Award (2007). North American Colleges Teaching Agriculture.

Outstanding Teacher Award (2007). Animal Sciences.

Certificate of Excellence in the Classroom (2004). USDA.

Outstanding Teaching Award (2004). Purdue University.

Distance Education Award for Best Noncredit material (2003). Purdue University.

Award of Excellence in Distance Education (2002). Center for Lifelong Learning at Purdue.

Outstanding Teaching Award (2002). Department of Animal Science.

 

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