{"id":1350,"date":"2025-10-19T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:24:26","slug":"kolton-witherspoon-m-s-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/2025\/10\/19\/kolton-witherspoon-m-s-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolton Witherspoon M.S. Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1351 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-1280x960.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9235-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Congratulations to Kolton Witherspoon on successfully defending his M.S. thesis titled \u201cIdentifying Spermatozoa Features for Fertility Scoring of Broiler Breeders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kolton\u2019s work combined morphological analyses of chicken spermatozoa and advanced analytical methods to identify key morphological characteristics of sperm cells that predict fertility outcomes in broiler breeder males. His findings contribute to the development of objective, data-driven scoring systems that could improve selection and monitoring for reproductive performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kolton will continue contributing to research in avian reproductive biology and applied breeding technologies as he transitions to the Ph.D program in our lab.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kolton Witherspoon on successfully defending his M.S. thesis titled \u201cIdentifying Spermatozoa Features for Fertility Scoring of Broiler Breeders.\u201d Kolton\u2019s work combined morphological analyses of chicken spermatozoa and advanced analytical methods to identify key morphological characteristics of sperm cells that predict fertility outcomes in broiler breeder males. His findings contribute to the development of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45],"tags":[14,32],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicken","category-students","tag-athreylab","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giriathrey.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}