CGIL Seminar - "Genetic selection for dairy calf disease resistance traits" and "Rumination time for the prediction of methane emissions in dairy"

Good afternoon CGIL,

This week we are happy to have Colin Lynch and Lucas Lopes, PhD candidates at the University of Guelph, presenting for us on Friday, January 26th, 2024. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU 141. If you are outside of Guelph and cannot attend the seminar in person, you can attend it virtually through the link below.

The titles of the presentations are:
"Genetic selection for dairy calf disease resistance traits" [Colin Lynch]
"Rumination time for the prediction of methane emissions in dairy" [Lucas Lopes]

Speaker Biography: 

Colin Lynch is a PhD candidate at the Center for Genetic Improvement of Livestock (CGIL) at the University of Guelph, working under the advisement of Dr. Christine Baes. Colin grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Agricultural Science, majoring in Animal Science at University College Dublin in 2018. After completing his undergraduate degree, Colin joined CGIL in September 2018 to pursue his master's and has been with the group ever since. Colin’s PhD work focuses on incorporating calf disease traits into national genetic evaluations in Canada.

Lucas Lopes obtained his undergraduate degree in Animal Science in 2016 and his master's in Genetics and Animal Breeding in 2019 from Sao Paulo State University in Brazil. During his undergrad, he worked with poultry and meat science and interned for private companies in the Brazilian beef production chain. In his master's, Lucas investigated meat quality parameters and how they affect consumers. Lucas joined CGIL in January 2020 to obtain his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Christine Baes, and as part of the Resilient Dairy Genome Project (RDGP). His thesis focuses on rumination time and its relationship with feed efficiency and methane emissions in first-lactation Canadian Dairy Cattle.

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/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_YjQ3YmUyMmQtNGUxMS00YTg5LWFjY2ItMjU4N2E5MDVmMjdh%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=02000411-a9bf-4b64-81aa-2fc975bd5ec5&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!
Samla Cunha and Kristin Lee