CGIL Seminar W2020- Emma Hyland and Tianna Sullivan

We are pleased to have students from Dr. Angela Canovas’s graduate class, Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding, presenting a CGIL Seminar on Friday March 6th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the papers that will be presented are:

 “Genome-wide signatures of selection reveal genes associated with performance in American Quarter Horse subpopulations” (Avila, F., Mickelson, J.R., Schaefer, R.J., and McCue, M.E. 2018. Front. Genet.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00249).

Speaker: Emma Hyland

“Signatures of selection for resistance for resistance to Haemonchus contortus in sheep and goats” (Estrada-Reyes, Z.M., Tsukahara, Y., Amadeu, R.R., Goetsch, A.L., Gipson, T.A., Sahlu, T., Puchala, R., Wang, A., Hart, S.P., and Mateescu, R.G. 2019. BMC Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6150-y)

Speaker: Tianna Sullivan

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 Biographies:

Emma Hyland

Emma grew up in various parts of Ontario and spent many years in Germany before moving back to Ontario in 2009. In 2015, Emma began her undergraduate degree in Animal Biology at the University of Guelph. During her time in undergrad Emma became interested in genetics and even more in dairy cattle. After the completion of her degree in 2019, Emma began her Master’s in Animal Breeding and Genetics under the advisement of Dr. Christine Baes. Her project is centered around dairy calf health recording practices and investigating methods of effective on farm recording. A goal of the project is to be able to integrate calf health data into current routine evaluation programs. In her spare time Emma enjoys spending time at home with her animals and endurance riding with horses.

Tianna Sullivan

Tianna grew up in Guelph and did her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph in Animal Biology. Through her undergraduate degree she was introduced to the livestock industry by working with swine at the Arkell Swine Research station. In her studies she developed an interest in immunology and immunogenetics, and began working on her undergraduate research project with Dr. Niel Karrow, looking at circulatory microRNA expression in sheep in response to a lipopolysaccharide challenge. She continued her work in Dr. Karrow’s lab through a Master’s degree with a thesis that focuses on identifying serum microRNA profiles for cattle undergoing an endotoxin stress challenge. She hopes to identify microRNA stress biomarkers that can be used to help build a health phenotype for stress resiliency in dairy cows that can be incorporated into modern breeding practices.