CGIL Seminar F2020- Dr. Diercles Cardoso

Dr. Diercles Cardoso, a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday October 23rd. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “Tracking signals of positive selection in cattle genome”.

To join this seminar, please ensure you have downloaded the Microsoft Teams application to your computer, or join the meeting online by using the web browser version of Microsoft Teams. Please join the meeting with your microphone on mute and camera turned off. After the presentation, you can unmute the microphone, and optionally turn on the camera, if you wish to ask a question. Alternatively, should you wish to pose your question in the chat function, it will be monitored and asked to the presenter.

Connection information for the meeting has been sent via a Calendar invitation, additionally the meeting can be found at the link below.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTI1MDI1NWEtZTBkZi00NjBlLThmYjUtYTAzMjBmNTQwMTE4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22be62a12b-2cad-49a1-a5fa-85f4f3156a7d%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22522551ba-0e93-4d61-8464-d782a9e7306d%22%7d

Speaker Biography:

Diercles is from Minas Gerais, Brazil. He went to the University of Marilia in Sao Paulo State for his B.Sc. degree in Animal Science (2009). After that, he had a short experience collecting research data on a commercial beef farm. Then he went to Sao Paulo State University, campus of Jaboticabal, where he obtained his M.Sc. (2012) and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in Animal Breeding and Genetics, and was a post-doctoral researcher (2019). His main research involves population genomics, scanning for signals of domestication and selection in the genome of domestic species. He worked as an invited researcher at Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany with Dr. Henner Simianer in 2015, and at CSIRO Brisbane, Australia with Dr. Antonio Reverter in 2018/2019. In January 2020, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph, working on a project entitled "Precision fertility and resiliency phenotyping in dairy cattle” under the supervision of Dr. Christine Baes.