Good Morning CGIL,

We are happy to have Zulma Vitezica, a professor at the Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse, France, presenting for us on Friday, February 17th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Genomic prediction with non-additive genetic effects".

Speaker Biography: Zulma Vitezica graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires and got her Ph.D. in Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon. She is a professor of Animal Breeding and Quantitative Genetics at Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse. Her research includes genetic evaluation and genomic prediction in animal and plant breeding, in particular considering dominance and epistasis.

Information to attend: 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.

Teams Link to attend: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_MTRkYmQ0ZGUtY2ZiZC00NzFjLTg4N2YtNzQzZWNjZDliNGEz%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%2522be62a12b-2cad-49a1-a5fa-85f4f3156a7d%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522522551ba-0e93-4d61-8464-d782a9e7306d%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=9d98088d-1aea-4849-ba03-1ef7d78da81f&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true

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

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Kristin Lee and Samla Cunha