CGIL Seminar F2020- Dr. Yutaka Masuda
Date and Time
Location
Online via Microsoft Teams
Details
We are very pleased to have Dr. Yutaka Masuda, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Animal and Dairy Science at the University of Georgia, presenting the final CGIL Seminar of 2020 on Friday December 18th, 2020. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “Issues of missing pedigree in single-step genomic evaluation”.
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.
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Yutaka Masuda is an Assistant Research Scientist of the Department of Animal and Dairy Science at the University of Georgia. He born on a farm in Hokkaido, Japan. His parents owned a farm for crops and vegetables as well as Japanese Black (known as Wagyu) cattle. After he received his B.S. in Agriculture from Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (Obihiro A&VM), Japan, in 2000, he returned to the farm as a young farmer, and he worked there for 3 years. He earned an M.S. in Agriculture at Obihiro A&VM and a Ph.D. in Bioproduction (Animal Breeding) at Iwate University, Japan. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Science at Obihiro A&VM from 2008 to 2014, Dr. Masuda taught animal breeding and genetics for undergraduate and graduate students. He expertized the methodology of genetic/genomic evaluation in a technical committee of dairy cattle breeding in Japan. He gave many talks about the genomic selection and new traits in dairy cattle for breeders, farmers, and breeding companies. He developed efficient computer programs which deal with heavy computations required in genetic evaluation of animals. Dr. Masuda also worked on the improvement of sport horses. He supervised a score sheet for a performance test on health, body conformation, and gaits for young horses. Dr. Masuda came to UGA in 2014, and he accepted the current position in 2016.