Department Seminars - Spring '12

Date

Speaker

Title

1/31

Sunday Peters
Post-doc Assoc. / Imumorin Lab

"Whole Genome Association Analysis of Heifer Fertility"

2/7

No Seminar

2/14

Dr. Joe Wakshlag
New York State College of Veterinary Medicine Nutritionist
Candidate for Field of Animal Science

"Obesity and chronic inflammation: Of mice, cows and dogs -similarities and differences"

2/21

No Seminar

2/28

Dr. Shuhong Zhao
Animal Science, Cornell University

"Identification of novel regulators in porcine skeletal muscle growth by integrated analysis of miRNA and mRNA expression."

3/6

Dr. Kent Weigel
Professor and Chair, Dairy Science Department University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Impact of new genetic technologies on herd improvement and the dynamics of replacement programs."

3/13

Dr Kadir Kizilkaya
Research Associate, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

TBA

3/20

Spring Break

3/27

Dr Soojin Yi
Associate Professor, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

TBA

4/3

Dr. Wansheng Liu
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University

"The Untold Story of the Bovine Y Chromosome"

4/10

Open

4/17

Dr. Hasan Khatib
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Genetics of Embryo Quality in Cattle"

4/24

Open

5/1

Dr. Dr Tanveer Hussain
Visiting Fellow, Imumorin Lab

"Genetic Diversity of Cytokine Genes in Cattle"