Past Events

Dr. Jim Squires concludes his tenure as Chair of the Department of Animal Biosciences on April 30, 2023.  Presentations and Q&A sessions by the 3 candidates for the Chair position will take place as follows: 

Dear ABSC Graduate Students, Easter is right around the corner! We wanted to invite you to join us for a fun-filled Easter Egg Craft on Monday April 3rd, 2023. Join us from 11:00am-01:00pm for decorating Easter themed items and grab some free chocolates from ANNU 230.

Domestic chicken are bipedal birds that are capable of terrestrial and aerial locomotion. As flapping flight is energetically costly, chickens may use a combination of their hindlimbs and wings to loco-mote; however, little is known about the relationship between the keel bone, the flight muscles that anchor to it and the chickens’ ability to navigate their environment. Therefore, this thesis investigat-ed the effects of feather loss (Chapter 2) and exercise using inclines on flight muscle architecture, keel bone fractures (Chapter 3) and flight kinematics (Chapter 4).

  Good afternoon CGIL,   This week we are happy to have Dr. Ligia Cavani, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presenting for us on Friday, March 31st, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Genetic basis of dairy cow feed efficiency".

  Good afternoon CGIL, We are happy to have with us Ella Dodd, Kelli Sokoloff, and Fatima Muhammad, Ph.D. and Master students at the University of Guelph, to present the CGIL Seminar on Friday, March 24th, 2023, as part of the course ANSC*6210: Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding. The hybrid seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in person in room 141 and online on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams.

  Good afternoon CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Jan Lassen, Senior Project Manager at VikingGenetics and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, to present for us on Friday, March 17th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Genetic and management analysis of efficiency and body weight data using 3D measures in commercial farms".

This week, MSMB is excited to welcome Dr. Suman Surendranath to our webinar series to speak all about the current global perspective surrounding muscle-specific colour stability in fresh meat of ruminant species. Dr.