CGIL Seminar - "Let's uncover Zebu genetics?"

Good morning CGIL,

This week we are happy to have Dr. Simone Guimaraes, a professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, presenting for us on Friday, October 20th, 2023. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The title of the presentation is: "Let's uncover Zebu genetics?".

Speaker Biography: Dr. Simone Guimaraes has a bachelor's in Veterinary Medicine at the Federal Rural University of Amazonia, a master's in Veterinary Medicine at the Veterinary School, and a Ph.D. in Animal Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She held post-doctorate positions at Iowa State University working with molecular genetics applied to swine meat production and at the Wageningen University of Research in partnership with the Institute for Pig Genetics (TOPIGS) working with swine genomic selection. Currently, she is a full professor at the Department of Animal Science at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. Dr. Guimaraes has experience in genetics, focusing on genomic selection, genome-wide association, proteomic, post-genomic, and functional genomics. She supervised/co-supervised more than 120 master's and PhD students and published more than 230 papers and 300 abstracts at conferences.

Information to attend: To join this seminar, please ensure you have downloaded the Microsoft Teams application to your computer, or join the meeting online by 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, should you wish to pose your question in the chat function, it will be monitored and asked by the presenter.

Teams Link to attend: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_YzY3ZjY4YzAtNGU3Ny00YzNkLTlhZWYtMGU2N2MxYmI4MGY2%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=c46e2381-7b81-4abf-8363-f15dc17c1abb&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