CGIL Seminar F2021- Dr. Seyed Ali Goldansaz

We are very pleased to have Dr. Seyed Ali Goldansaz, a livestock researcher at Olds College, to present a CGIL Seminar on Friday October 29th, 2021. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “Metabolomics and precision agriculture: a novel approach for applied livestock research”.

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

Speaker Biography:

Dr. Seyed Ali Goldansaz is a livestock researcher at Olds College with a research program currently worth two million dollars. Since joining the College in 2019, Ali has been designing a comprehensive applied sheep research program with the general objective of (1) improving the profitability of sheep production, (2) improving the efficiency of production by employing high throughput technologies and computing power, and (3) decreasing the environmental footprint of sheep production. He has been successful in mobilizing nine research groups from seven academic institutions and research centers to support the sheep industry in the province and across the country. Ali is also interested in developing point-of-care (PoC) devices for real-time detection of animal disease and production status. Ali is actively engaged in livestock metabolomics research and a pioneer of the first Livestock Metabolome Database.

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