CGIL Seminar - Accounting for Recombination in Estimating Relatedness with IBD Segments from 3 - Generation Pedigrees

Good morning CGIL,  

This week we are happy to have Dr. Rodolfo Cantet, a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina, presenting for us on Friday, September 13th, 2024. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU 141. The presentation title is: “Accounting for Recombination in Estimating Relatedness with IBD Segments from 3-Generation Pedigrees”.  

Speaker biography: Rodolfo (Fito) Cantet is an animal breeder, Senior Researcher at CONICET, and a member of Argentina's National Academy of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics and Genetics Selection Evolution (GSE). He retired as a Full Professor of Animal Breeding at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 2022.  

Cantet holds a degree in Agriculture from UBA, an MSc in Animal Science from Montana State University, and a PhD in Animal Science from the University of Illinois. He has authored over 100 papers and supervised numerous PhD and MSc students. Since 1999, he has led UBA’s genetic evaluations for beef cattle.  

His research includes work on covariance estimation, social interaction models, and semiparametric models. Since 2000, he focused on continuous identity by descent (IBD), publishing his “ancestral regression model” in 2017. His 2022 paper in GSE outlines the theoretical aspects of this model, which is the focus of his presentation.  

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.  

Teams link to attend:  

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjkyNGNhODktMmE1OC00MTA1LTljZDUtNTA5ZjEyYWQ1YTc5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22be62a12b-2cad-49a1-a5fa-85f4f3156a7d%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22522551ba-0e93-4d61-8464-d782a9e7306d%22%7d 

*Recordings of previous CGIL seminars are available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAQ_5WCTMRQ6Gs35yROqGIQ/featured  

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!  
 Gabby Condello and Ella Dodd.