Past Events

We are happy to announce we will be hosting our annual Department of Animal Biosciences Graduate Student Townhall on February 10th. Agenda 1 – Department & Graduate Related Updates – Dr. Squires & Dr. Pearson 2 – EDI Committee Graduate Related Updates – Dr. Ellis & Dr. Moccia 3 – Current Graduate Student Concerns & Questions 4 – Graduate Students Only Open Forum

Good afternoon CGIL,   This week we are happy to have Dr. Albert De Vries, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Florida, to present for us on, Friday February 3rd, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Economic improvement of on-farm dairy cattle mating decisions".

The Department of Animal Biosciences is pleased to be hosting a hands-on an advanced equine first aid course at the Equine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre (ESMRC) on Saturday January 28, 2023. This is an add-on course to the Equine First Aid course held last fall but interested participants are not required to have taken that course or have any previous certification.  

Good afternoon CGIL,   This week we are happy to have Dr. Dirk-Jan de Koning, professor in Animal Breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, to present for us on, Friday January 27th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Genetics of bone health in laying hens: what you measure or where you measure it?".

We are pleased to announce that a new club has launched within the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph! The Meat Science and Muscle Biology (MSMB) Club will be holding their first event this Thursday with guest speaker Dr. Luiz Silva from Western Kentucky University. Dr. Silva will be speaking about compensatory growth in beef cattle, and the relative impacts on carcass and meat quality.

Good morning CGIL, We are happy to invite you to a very special IN-PERSON CGIL seminar. We will have Dr. Steve Miller, Director of the Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU) at the University of New England, Australia, to present on Thursday January 26th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 2:30 PM EDT/EST at ANNU 141. The title of the presentation is: "Advancements in livestock breeding and some thoughts on the future".

Good morning CGIL, We are happy to have with us Dr. Lassen, a Senior Project Manager at VikingGenetics and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Aarhus University, to present this Friday, January 20th, 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".

The objectives of this thesis were to 1) evaluate the impact of supplementing omega-3 (n3) fatty acids (FA) using calcium salts enriched in fish oil (Ca-FO) during the early postpartum period on the degree and resolution of inflammation using an induced acute inflammation model, and 2) test whether these effects were from an increased energy density of the diet or were due to the effects of n3 FA on immune cell biology. Supplementing Ca-FO was reflected by changes in the FA composition of plasma, milk, and peripheral blood leukocytes.