{"404151":{"#nid":"404151","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Poultry Salmonella Project Wins Capstone Expo Policy Category","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFarmaceuticals\u003C\/em\u003E, a senior design project addressing salmonella incidence in humans through poultry feed and sponsored by\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control and Prevention\u003C\/a\u003E (CDC), took the top honor in the public policy category during the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.capstone.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpring 2015 Capstone Design Expo\u003C\/a\u003E held Thursday, April 23, in McCamish Pavilion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 1,000 students and 200 teams participated in this year\u0027s Expo. Undergraduates from senior design courses in eleven schools worked with real-world, open-ended, interdisciplinary challenges proposed by industrial and research project sponsors. Participating involved tenacity, teamwork, and presentation. The three public policy entries showcased in the Spring 2015 Expo were advised by Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/isett\u0022\u003EKimberly Isett\u003C\/a\u003E and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/hicks\u0022\u003EDiana Hicks\u003C\/a\u003E. The two other team projects, also sponsored by the CDC, were \u003Cem\u003EBetter Call Salmonella\u003C\/em\u003E, a study of health interventions in communities of color, and\u003Cem\u003E Up With the White and Mold\u003C\/em\u003E, a project on healthy homes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFarmaceuticals\u003C\/em\u003E, the winning project, was conducted by team members Brittany Dodson, Sam Lancaster, Jason Lupuloff, and Aaron Peek. Their project was spurred on by a lack of incentives to reduce Salmonella in the pre-production phase of poultry rearing, despite the danger of Salmonella on the farm translating to human salmonellosis if the bacteria is not killed before consumption.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on the use of feed additives such as essential oils and probiotics to significantly reduce this risk, the goal of the research project was threefold: to identify what percent of poultry feed supplemented with probiotics and essential oils is necessary to reduce Salmonella incidence in humans; to determine the necessary poultry market penetrations for this new approach to have an impact on public health; and to calculaate the economic impact of the introduction of antimicrobials on society and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProject judges ranged from professors to industry professionals in a wide variety of disciplines and evaluated student research on creativity, utility, quality of analysis, proof of function, and communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFarmaceuticals\u003C\/em\u003E, a senior design project addressing salmonella incidence in humans through poultry feed and sponsored by\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control and Prevention\u003C\/a\u003E (CDC), took the top honor in the public policy category during the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.capstone.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpring 2015 Capstone Design Expo\u003C\/a\u003E held Thursday, April 23, in McCamish Pavilion.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Farmaceuticals, a senior design project addressing salmonella incidence in humans through poultry feed and sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), took the top honor in the public policy category during the Spring 2015 Expo"}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-05-13 11:59:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:17","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404131":{"id":"404131","type":"image","title":"Team Farmaceuticals","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895127","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:07","alt":"Team Farmaceuticals","file":{"fid":"75990","name":"farmaceuticals.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/farmaceuticals.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/farmaceuticals.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37471,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/farmaceuticals.jpg?itok=1U7CePEu"}}},"media_ids":["404131"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/blog.spi.com\/macys-e-commerce-project-georgia-tech-capstone-expo-spring-2015\/","title":"Spring 2015 Expo: A Judge\u0027s Perspective"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"123","name":"CDC"},{"id":"9157","name":"expo"},{"id":"96881","name":"farm"},{"id":"668","name":"poultry"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"171423","name":"salmonella"},{"id":"167090","name":"SPP"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBert Bras\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpo Faculty Advisor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bert.bras@me.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebert.bras@me.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}