Past Events

Rumination time in dairy cattle: genetic, genomic, and machine learning analyses.

The CCSAW Student Chapter is hosting a behind-the-scenes tour of the Toronto Zoo on Friday, April 26th! All are welcome to join. Tickets are limited, and will be sold for $40 each (cash only, first-come first-serve) in person in the Animal Science and Nutrition building on Thursday April 18th at 2:00pm. On the day of the trip, we will be meeting behind ANNU at 7:30am and travelling to the zoo via carpool. Feel free to email us with any questions!

This winter, the Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph will be hosting several hands-on equine first aid courses at the Equine Sports Medicine and Reproduction Centre (ESMRC).

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”.

Good afternoon CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Ivan Pocrnic, a Researcher at Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, presenting for us on Friday, April 12th, 2024. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Making big data small and small data big: the story of genomic dimensionality”.

Good afternoon CGIL, This week we are happy to have Dr. Brion Maher, a Professor at Johns Hopkins University, presenting for us on Friday, April 5th, 2024. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Genetics and Epigenetics Applied to Substance Use Disorders in Humans”.

This winter, the Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph will be hosting several hands-on equine first aid courses at the Equine Sports Medicine and Reproduction Centre (ESMRC).

Good afternoon CGIL, We are happy to have with us Avalon Phillips and Emily Lomas, M.Sc. students from the University of Guelph, to present the CGIL Seminar on Friday, March 22nd, 2024, as part of the course ANSC*6210: Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams.