CGIL Seminar 2019- Dr. Jan Lassen

Dr. Jan Lassen, a Senior Project Manager at Viking Genetics, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday, November 15th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 pm in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: "Using 3D camera technology to make individual feed intake measures in commercial dairy cattle farms".

If you wish to attend this seminar remotely, please view the instructions for connecting to Fuze or join the meeting online by clicking here. It is recommended that you check for updates to the Fuze client before joining each seminar. Please connect at least five minutes before the meeting if you plan to do so. For those with the Fuze client installed, which is the preferred method of connection, the meeting ID is 316-25-830. Please mute your microphone and turn off your camera for the presentation itself. After the presentation, you can unmute the microphone, and optionally turn on the camera, if you wish to speak to the room.

Speaker Biography:

Jan is a Senior Project Manager at Viking Genetics, where he focuses on the inclusion of feed efficiency in the Nordic Total Merit index. Growing up on a dairy farm, he had an interest in improving cow performance through breeding. He received his PhD in Animal Science from Copenhagen University in Denmark. He was a researcher at Aarhus University, before joining Viking Genetics. Jan will present a method to take large scale individual feed intake measures in dairy cattle using 3D camera technology.