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Dr. Ricardo Ventura completed his Master’s and Ph.D. in Animal Breeding and Genetics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. He then moved to the University of Guelph to work on the implementation of genomic selection in Canadian coloured dairy breeds as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Flavio Schenkel. He then accepted a position as a genomicist at AgSights (formerly BIO), which he held for 7 years, and he was also appointed an Adjunct Professor with CGIL in 2013. Dr. Ventura is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and associated with FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation - Brazil) as a Young Researcher.