Seminar F2024- Larissa Braga

 

This week we are happy to have Larissa Braga, a doctoral student at the São Paulo State University in Brazil presenting for us on Friday, November 1st, 2024. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Copy number variants in Dairy Gir cattle”.  

Speaker biography: Larissa Graciano Braga holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Goiás (2019), with an academic exchange at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina. She completed a master's in animal Breeding and Genetics at São Paulo State University, Brazil (2021) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Animal Science (Genetics and Animal Breeding) at the same institution. Her research experience centers on copy number variants, genomic variants, inbreeding, genetic diversity, selection signatures, and estimation of genetic parameters. She spent a year as a visiting research student at the University of Guelph, Canada (2023-2024). 

 

Information to attend: To join this seminar, please ensure you have downloaded the Microsoft Teams application to your computer or join the meeting online using the web browser version of Microsoft Teams. Please join the meeting with your microphone on mute and the 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, if you wish to pose your question in the chat function, the presenter will answer questions made through the chat.  

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