Good afternoon CGIL,

We are happy to have with us Michelle Axford, a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, to present this Friday, November 11th, 2022. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "The genetics of listening".

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: Michelle Axford is a La Trobe University PhD candidate with the DairyBio group, focusing on the genetics of calf vitality. For DataGene, she contributes to projects that support the growth of heifer genomic testing on a part-time basis. Michelle and her husband own and operate a family dairy farm business based in the Gippsland region of South-East Australia. Michelle is intrigued by the role that genetics plays in improving farm performance. Over the past decade, Michelle has focused on making Australian breeding values more accessible through the Good Bulls strategy, better aligned with farmer and industry expectations and more clearly validated in Australia’s varied dairying environments. In her prior role at DataGene, she led the last two National Breeding Objective reviews and played a key role in the implementation of DataGene’s new genetic evaluation software. Michelle is an active volunteer in local and state sporting and community organizations.

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