News and Announcements

ABSc would like to welcome Gino Giansante as the new Manger of the meat science laboratory. Gino’s first experience in the meat industry goes back to his days as a student working summer's with his father in a small abattoir. Gino brings over 20 years of experience in the food processing industry, including plant management, operations, people leadership and financial expertise. For the past few years, Gino was a Senior Processing Manager at Maple Lodge Farms, and before that he was a Production Manager and Logistics Manager at Olivieri Foods.

CONGRATULATIONS to our CREATIVITY WINNERS. Here are the TOP creative submissions as decided by YOUR VOTES!!

1st place: Ivan Campos with the submission "Breeding Dairy Cattle for Climate Change"

2nd place: Esther Chan with the submission "Prediction of beef cattle body weight based on morphometric measurements extracted from 2D images"

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to PhD candidate Claire Mindus (supervised by ABSc and CCSAW Core Faculty member Dr. Alexandra Harlander), who was awarded 1st place at the OAC 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition!

Congratulations to last week's WINNER of our WEEKLY CREATIVITY DRAW  Audrey Martin!!

We are ready for YOU to VOTE on your favourite  Creative Expression of Research Submission!! We have lots of creativity in our Department so go check them out and vote on your TOP 3 favorites. (link below)

TO VOTE:

Here are the submissions for the final week of the ABSc GSC Creative Expression of Research Competition!

Audrey Martin, a PhD Candidate working under the supervision of Drs. Flavio Schenkel and Christine Baes, created an impressive infographic explaining genetic selection and gene interactions.

The Resilient Dairy Genome Project (RDGP) is a Large-Scale Applied Research Project funded by Genome Canada. The overall aim of the project is to enhance Canadian dairy industry sustainability by integrating genomic approaches to improve dairy cattle resilience.

ABSc Profs John Cant and Michael Steele were a part of two discussion panels hosted by Food, Agricultural and Economics (FARE) faculty Mike Von Massow, in collaboration with Dairy at Guelph, to help clarify what we know, don't know, and need to know about the recent controversies around the texture of butter and questions about palm-based feed supplements for cows.