Wednesday, May 1st at 3 p.m. CST Connection details: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/16141396271 646-828-7666; ID: 161 4139 6271 Abstract: Manipulation of the rumen microbial ecosystem is one potential approach to improve rumen fermentation and consequently enhance the host productive performance, but the effects of microbial inoculation in the other stomach chambers are largely unexplored. We intraruminally dosed three types of microbial inoculum in dairy calves and evaluated the effects in the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum epithelial tissue transcriptome and its associated meta-transcriptome.