CGIL Seminar - "Wonders of the deep: Aquaculture breeding"

Good afternoon CGIL,

We are happy to have with us Vera van der Heijden, a geneticist at Hendrix Genetics, to present this Friday, November 4th, 2022. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Wonders of the deep: Aquaculture breeding".

To join this seminar, please ensure you have downloaded the Microsoft Teams application to your computer, or join the meeting online by using the web browser version of Microsoft Teams. Please join the meeting with your microphone on mute and 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, should you wish to pose your question in the chat function, it will be monitored and asked to the presenter. 

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Speaker Biography: Vera van der Heijden completed her bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciences at Wageningen University in 2014, and shortly after began her Master’s at Wageningen, specializing in animal breeding and genetics, quantitative genetics and terrestrial animals. In Dec 2016, Vera started working at Hendrix Genetics Aquaculture as a geneticist. During the years that followed, Vera specialized in Atlantic and Coho salmon breeding but also has experience working with Rainbow Trout and Whiteleg shrimp. Vera mainly focuses on data processing, development of new traits and selection of candidates.

*Recordings of previous CGIL seminars are available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAQ_5WCTMRQ6Gs35yROqGIQ/featured
Ivan Campos and Colin Lynch