First CGIL Seminar - Fall 2019

Dr. Zahra Karimi, a post-doctoral researcher at the Canadian Centre for Swine Improvement, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday, October 4th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 pm in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: "A new approach for validation of genomic estimated breeding values".

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:

Zahra earned her master degree from the University of Tehran, Iran in 2010. Her master thesis focused on finding polymorphism in the complementary sex determination locus in Apis mellifera meda. After completion her master thesis, she was awarded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship in 2011 to obtain a double masters in Europe. The program included courses and projects at two different universities. In the first year, she attended Wageningen University, Netherlands  and worked on the genetic analysis of longevity in dairy cattle using a social interaction model, under the supervision of Dr. Piter Bijma. For the second year, her project focused on genomic inbreeding levels in Taurine and Zebuine cattle, supervised by Prof. John Sölkner at the University of BOKU, Vienna, Austria. In 2014, she joined  Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock (CGIL) as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Flavio Schenkel. Her PhD research was based on assessing haplotype-based approaches for genomic predictions in dairy cattle and swine, which she finished in April 2018. She joined the Canadian Center for Swine Improvement (CCSI) company as a post-doctoral researcher in January 2018.