Past Events

Dr. Diercles Cardoso, a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday October 23rd. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “Tracking signals of positive selection in cattle genome”.

  We are very pleased to have Ashley Skillings and Kymberly Coello from Dr. Angela Canovas’s graduate class, Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding, presenting a CGIL Seminar on Friday March 13th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the papers that will be presented are:

  We are pleased to have students from Dr. Angela Canovas’s graduate class, Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding, presenting a CGIL Seminar on Friday March 6th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the papers that will be presented are:

Mike McMorris, CEO of Livestock Innovation Research Corporation, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday February 28h. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: “Livestock in 2030”.

Dr. Dr. Leluo Guan, a Professor at the University of Alberta will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday, February 7th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: “Defining the impact of host genetics on the rumen microbiome, where we are?”. 

Dr. Stephanie McKay, an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont, will present a CGIL Seminar on Thursday, February 6th. The seminar will begin at 10:00 AM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: “A Neuroepigenomic Investigation of the Bovine Brain”.

Dr. Bo (Eddie) Pan, a Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Animal Biosciences, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday, January 31st. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: “The egg does not wait”.

Dr. Paul Hebert, a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, will present a CGIL Seminar on Friday, January 24th. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM in room 141 of the Animal Science & Nutrition building. The title of the presentation is: “BIOSCAN: Progress Towards Planetary Biosurveillance”.