Past Events

Get ready for this year’s Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest!  Join us on Tuesday, October 31st to carve a pumpkin together with your friends (teams of 1-4 members). The sign-up sheet will remain open until Friday, 

Good morning CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Cedric Gondro, a professor at Michigan State University, presenting for us on Friday, October 27th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Breed composition with portable sequencing devices … and a bit of AI for genomic prediction and enviromics".

Good morning CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Simone Guimaraes, a professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, presenting for us on Friday, October 20th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Let's uncover Zebu genetics?".

Good morning CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Sirlene Fernandes Lazaro, a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, presenting for us on Friday, October 13th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Genomic studies of milk-related traits in water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) based on single-step GBLUP".

Good afternoon CGIL, This week we are happy to have Kaitlyn Rodriguez, a Master's student from the University of Guelph, presenting for us on Friday, October 6th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Identifying the Threshold of Detection for Common Veterinary Antibiotic Residues in Near-InfraRed Milk Spectra".

Welcome to the October installment of the Nutrition Seminar Series, hosted by the Centre for Nutrition Modelling (Animal Biosciences Department). Each month, CNM delivers seminars from a different lab within the ABSC Nutrition group to share their exciting new research in a dynamic manner. 

Good afternoon CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Piter Bijma, Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research, presenting for us on Friday, September 29th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: “Genetic Improvement of Infectious Disease Traits: Connecting Animal Breeding and Epidemiology”.