Good afternoon CGIL,

This week we are happy to have Dr. Guilherme Rosa, a Professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presenting for us on Friday, April 19th, 2024. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform of Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Combining Big Data Analytics and Omics Techniques to Improve Beef Cattle Selection and Production”.

Speaker Biography: Dr. Guilherme Rosa is a Professor of Quantitative Genetics and Data Analysis at the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His lab research is focused on the development and application of statistical and computational tools for the analysis of livestock data, including beef and dairy cattle, swine, poultry among others. Examples of applications include the analysis of farm-level operational data for optimization of management practices, high-throughput phenotyping techniques for real-time monitoring of individual animals and disease surveillance, as well as quantitative genetics/genomics and breeding. More information can be obtained from his website: www.gjmrosa.org

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_YmNjZTVjNzYtNDQ3OC00MWM0LTg1ZDMtMmE1MDkyNmVmMmNk%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=d5a2c8ea-bd7d-4921-9b96-c2b7fb55af0b&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