CGIL Seminar W2022- Renzo Bonifazi

We are very happy to have with us Renzo Bonifazi, PhD student at Wageningen University, to present a CGIL Seminar on Friday February 18th, 2022. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “International genetic and genomic evaluations for beef cattle”.

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:

Renzo Bonifazi is PhD student in the Animal Breeding and Genomics department at Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) under the supervision of Dr. Mario Calus, Dr. Jeremie Vandenplas, Prof. Roel Veerkamp, and Dr. Jan ten Napel.He was born in Recanati, a small town in central Italy, in a family of beef farmers (of Marchigiana breed). Renzo did his BSc and MSc in Animal Science at the University of Perugia (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Emiliano Lasagna. During his MSc he did an Erasmus period at the Interbull Centre (Uppsala, Sweden) where he conducted his MSc thesis under the supervision of Prof. Hossein Jorjani. His thesis focused on comparing pedigree and genomic reliabilities of national and international evaluations in dairy cattle. After his MSc, he did another Erasmus traineeship followed by a working period at the Interbull Centre as geneticist focusing on estimation of variance components in beef cattle international evaluations. In 2018, Renzo started his PhD at Wageningen in a collaboration project between Wageningen University & Research, Interbeef, Interbull, and ICAR. His PhD project focuses on improving and further developing methodologies for international beef cattle evaluations. The first part of his research focused on using multi-trait approaches to estimate genetic correlations across countries. The second part focuses on including genomic data in current international pedigree-based evaluations and on how to integrate international (G)EBV back into national evaluations

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