CGIL Seminar 2019- Dr. Nienke van Staaveren

Dr. Nienke van Staaveren, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday, October 25th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 pm in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: "Learning from behaviour to improve animal welfare".

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:

Dr. Nienke van Staaveren is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph. She obtained her PhD in Veterinary Medicine from University College Dublin and Teagasc – the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, with a focus in pig health and welfare. In 2017, she joined Dr. Alexandra Harlander’s lab to work on an epidemiological study regarding feather pecking in Canadian laying hens. Recently she has joined Dr. Christine Baes’s lab to manage the GAPP turkey genomics project. During this presentation, she will present some of the projects she has been working on, which focus on animal behaviour and what it can tell us about animal welfare.