Jacob Musa, MS

Graduate research assistant
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

I am Jacob Musa, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue University, where my research focuses on genetic and epigenetic strategies to enhance heat resilience in swine. By integrating functional genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, heat stress physiology, and behavioral analysis, I aim to mitigate the cumulative effects of in utero heat stress on swine welfare.
Before joining Purdue, I served as a Translational Genomics Research Assistant at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University in Wales. I earned my M.Sc. in Animal Science from Aberystwyth University, where I investigated MKL1 gene polymorphism and its relationship to body measurement traits in Muturu and White Fulani cattle breeds of Nigeria. I completed my undergraduate degree in Animal Science at Kaduna State University in Nigeria.

Presentation(s):

• 43 - Evaluating the use of a monoterpene-based phytogenic supplement to alleviate the effects of gestational heat stress on the sow and her developing offspring.

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CST

• 214 - In utero heat stress alters testis development and circulating cytokines profiles in pre-pubertal boars

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  11:30 AM – 11:45 AM CST

• 91 - Thermoregulatory and physiological responses of in utero heat-stressed pigs genomically selected for heat stress tolerance in the F2 generation

  Monday, March 10, 2025
  4:25 PM – 4:40 PM CST

• 89 - Mitigating the effects of gestational heat stress on reproductive efficiency in replacement gilts divergently selected for thermotolerance in the F1 generation

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CST