Center for Genetic Improvement of Livestock - CGIL

04/16/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Steve Larmer, from Bayer Crop Science, will present a seminar on Friday, April 17th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Accelerating genetic gain in crop breeding: How learnings from animal breeding are guiding plant breeding programs”.
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04/06/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Oscar Gonzalez-Recio, from the University of Edinburgh, will present a seminar on Friday, April 10th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: "Breeding for lower methane emissions in cows – current state and future plans".
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03/26/2026

CGIL seminar:
Dr. Cedric Gondro, from Michigan State University, will present a seminar on Friday, March 27th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in person in ANNU 030 as well as on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Imputation and computational considerations for genetic evaluation at sequence level”.
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This week awe are happy to have Dr. Cedric Gondro, from Michigan State University, presenting for us on Friday, March 27th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in person in ANNU 030 as well as on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Imputation and computati...

03/16/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Jennifer McClure, from the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center, will present a seminar on Friday, March 20th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Genetic defect recording- Searching for something no one wants to talk about”.
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03/11/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Four students from the University of Guelph will present short talks, as part of the course ANSC*6210: Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding, on Friday, March 13th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU 030 and on the virtual platform of Microsoft Teams.
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03/05/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Four students from the University of Guelph will present short seminars on Friday, March 6th, 2026, as part of the course ANSC*6210: Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding. The seminars will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU 141 and on the virtual platform of Microsoft Teams. The titles of their presentations are:
"Editing porcine IGF2 regulatory element improved meat production in Chinese Bama pigs" – Delano Adamson
“Impact of Implementing Female Genomic Selection and the Use of Sex-Selected Semen Technology on Genetic Gain in a Dairy Herd in New Zealand”– Xuewen (Sunny) Wang
A Review of "The effect of phenotyping, adult selection, and mating strategies on genetic gain and rate of inbreeding in black soldier fly breeding programs" – Madeleine Lacroix
“Genetic correlations between feed efficiency traits, and growth performance and carcass traits in purebred and crossbred pigs” – Regine Finstad

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02/26/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Kerry Houlahan, from True North Genetics, will present a seminar on Friday, February 27th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU141 and on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Breeding to Bacon: The Science Behind the System.”
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02/09/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Arielly O. Garcia, from the University of Georgia, will present a seminar on Friday, February 13th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Genetic background of calving ease in beef-on-dairy”.
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02/03/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Adam Boyko, an Assistant Professor from Cornell University, will present a seminar on February 6th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “The genetics of longevity and blood phenotypes in Golden Retrievers.”
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01/27/2026

CGIL Seminar:
Dr. Didier Boichard, from INRAE, will present a seminar on Friday, January 30th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Integrating Structural Variants into Sequence-Based GWAS Using a bovine Pangenome”
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