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Awards

May 2012 Professional Development Programme (PDP) Scholarship

October 2011 Overall Best Student

October 2011 Best student in fourth level

January 2011 Merit Award for Tuition fees

January 2009 Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited (HCI) Foundation
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP)
British Society of Animal Science (BSAS)
Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
American Dairy Science Association
National Postdoctoral Association (NPA), USA

Degrees:

2015
Master     Agricultural Sciences
MSc Agric Animal Production (Ruminant Nutrition- Dairy)
2011
Undergraduate     Agricultural Sciences
2021
Doctorate     Agricultural Sciences
Research focused on dairy cattle behviour and physiology

Publications resulting from Research
J.L. Marumo, P.A. LaPierre and M.E. Van Amburgh (2023). Enteric Methane Emissions Prediction in Dairy Cattle and Effects of Monensin on Methane Emissions: A Meta-Analysis (2023). Animals 13(8), 1392. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13081392.

Ortega, A.F., Zanotti, A., Coombe, R., Fox, N., LaPierre, P.A., Marumo, J.L., Coon, C., D.M. Barbano and M.E. Van Amburgh (2022). Abomasal Infusions of Essential and Non-Essential Amino Acids to Evaluate Productive Efficiencies, and Energy and Amino Acid Utilization in Lactating Dairy Cattle: Cornell University Nutrition Conference, Syracuse, New York, 18-20 October 2022.

J.L. Marumo, D. Lusseau, J.R. Speakman, M. Mackie and C. Hambly (2022). Influence of environmental factors and parity on milk yield dynamics in barn-housed dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science 105(2): 1225-1241. doi: 10.3168/jds.2021-20698

J.L. Marumo, D.N. Fisher, D. Lusseau, M. Mackie, J.R. Speakman and C. Hambly (2022). Social associations in lactating dairy cows housed in a robotic milking system. Applied Animal Science Behaviour 249: 105589. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105589

J.L. Marumo, C. Hambly, D. Lusseau & J.R. Speakman (2020). Effect of regrouping lactating dairy cows on behavioural variability. In Proceeding of the British Society of Animal Science Conference – Advances in Animal Biosciences: The Challenge of Change. 30th Mar- 01 April 2020, Nottingham, UK. Page 027 (Abstr.). doi:10.1017/S2040470020000011

J.L. Marumo, F.V. Nherera-Chokuda, J.W. Ng’ambi & M.C. Muya. 2018. Effect of replacing a commercial pelleted calf meal with lucerne leaf meal on performance of neonatal and transitional Holstein heifer calves. Animal Production Science. Animal Production Science 58(5): 834-840.

F.V. Nherera-Chokuda, C.J. Smit, M.C. Muya & J.L. Marumo. 2017. Effect of heat treatment on forage quality of bio-fortified orange fleshed Ipomea batatas crop residues and roots. African Journal of Agricultural Research 12(31): 2499-2506.

KT Ramapuputla, FV Nherera, MC Muya, JL Mangena & D. Luseba. Fiber composition and rumen degradation of agro-by-products utilized in steer fattening and dairy cattle rations. June 2016. Grassroots newsletter Volume 16 No.2.

47th SASAS CONGRESS
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49th SASAS Annual Congress
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52nd Annual Grassland Society for Southern Africa (GSSA) congress
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47th SASAS ANNUAL CONGRESS
2025
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Animal Feed Manufacturer Association (AFMA) Symposium
2025
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Training course in Livestock and Climate Change
2025
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Student Industry Day hosted by SASAS Northern Branch
2025
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Mentorship Orientation Workshop
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Faculty Research day: University of Limpopo
2025
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51st Grassland Society for Southern Africa Annual Congress
2025
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11th Interanational Animal Science conference
2025
icon-pin-location Turkey, Cappadocia
52nd Annual Grassland Society for Southern Africa (GSSA) congress
2025
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Introduction to R & Introduction to Statistical Modelling using R
2025
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Introduction to Unix and Maxwell Workshop
2025
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Leadership & Cultural Intelligence
2025
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Introduction to R and Statistical analysis with R
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Postgraduate basic statistics workshop
2025
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