CGIL Seminar F2020- Dr. John Cole

We are very pleased to have Dr. John Cole, Acting Research Leader of the Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, USDA, present a CGIL Seminar on Friday October 30th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “Haplotype- and sequence-based identification of a deletion associated with early embryonic loss in Holstein cattle and functional validation using CRISPR-Cas9 knockouts”.

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_ZDM5ZTA5YTYtZTg0Yy00MmRjLWE4NjItZmM0NzE1MWU3OTA2%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:

John B. Cole is the Acting Research Leader of the Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, which is part of the Agricultural Research Service, USDA’s in-house research arm. He also is a member of the International Committee for Animal Recording’s Working Group on Functional Traits. John holds a PhD in animal, dairy, and poultry science from Louisiana State University and is a graduate of the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Animal Science at North Carolina State University and the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Florida. His research currently focuses on genetic improvement of fertility, health, and fitness traits in dairy cattle; use of genomic data to support on-farm decision-making; and identification of recessive genetic defects in cattle.