University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Animal Science Department's
Animal Breeding and Genetics Seminar Schedule
Fall 2016 Animal Breeding and Genetics Seminar
When: Thursdays, 1-2 pm
Where: Room A230, Animal Science Building
Organizer: Benny Mote
Sept. 1
Hiruni Wijesena
Translational Genomics for Improving Sow Reproductive Longevity
Sept. 8
Dr. Blaine Johnson
Whole Genome Prediction: Hybrid Performance
Sept. 15
Dr. Ryan Rapp
From Front to Back: Using Genomics to Discover, Develop and Deploy Traits
Sept. 22
Tasha Gruhot
An economic analysis of sow retention in the breeding herd
Sept. 29
Haipeng Yu
The Exploration of A Four-platform Standing Scale in the Application of Measuring Temperament in Beef Cattle
Oct. 6
Dr. Dale Van Vleck
How should we measure risk when comparing EBV
Oct. 13
Dr. James Schnable
New approaches to comparisons of gene regulation across related species
Oct. 20
Fall Semester Break
Oct. 27
Dr. Rodger Johnson
Responses and lessons learned from 35 generations of selection in pigs
Nov. 3
TBD
Nov. 10
Dr. Derek Petry
TBD
Nov. 17
Sylvia Harrison
What is the correlated response in reproduction, in poultry selected for high and low body weight?
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving
Dec. 1
Lianna Walker
TBD
Spring 2016 Animal Breeding and Genetics Seminar
When: Mondays, 11 am - 12 pm
Where: Room A230, Animal Science Building
Organizer: Gota Morota
Feb. 15
Dale Van-Vleck - Animal Science
ODDs & ENDS
Feb. 22
Temple Grandin*
The importance of Good Stockmanship in Reducing Stress
Feb. 29
Jungjae Lee - Animal Science
SNP pipeline and Genomic Prediction in Red Angus beef cattle
Mar. 7
Sara Nilson - Animal Science
Transcriptome Analyses of Persistently Infected Beef Calves with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
Mar. 14
No seminar - ASAS Midwest Meeting
Mar. 21
No seminar - Spring Break
Mar. 28
Qi Zhang - Statistics
An Empirical Bayes Test for Allelic Imbalance Detection
Apr. 4
Napo Vargas - Animal Science
A Bayesian approach to unmix diet composition
Apr. 11
Malachy Campbell - Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
Natural variation in OsHKT1.1 provides insight into origins of salinity tolerance in rice
Apr. 18
Jamie Parham** - Animal Science
The world of genomic selection: a transition from theoretical to applied animal breeding
Apr. 25
Ron Lewis - Animal Science
Ruminations on connectedness
May 2
Emily Hilburger - Animal Science
Plant-waxes and grazing ruminant animals
*10-11 am at the East Union - ASGSA Seminar
**12-1pm in Room A230
**12-1pm in Room A230
Fall 2015 Animal Breeding and Genetics Seminar
When: Tuesdays, 1-2 pm
Where: Room A230, Animal Science Building
Organizer: Gota Morota
Sept. 8
Gonzalo Martinez - Central University of Venezuela
A summary of results from a study of animal production systems in Venezuela
Sept. 15
Gota Morota - Animal Science
Quantifying the contribution of population stratification to genomic heritability
Sept. 22
Warren Snelling - USMARC
Bull Sequence, More Sequence, Piled higher and Deeper
Sept. 29
Dale Van Vleck - Animal Science*
Gordon Dickerson: One of the Three Sons of Modern Animal Breeding
Oct. 6
No Seminar
Oct. 13
Diego Jarquin - Agronomy & Horticulture
Improving prediction accuracy in genomic selection by considering genotype by-environment interaction
Oct. 20
Fall Semester Break
Oct. 27
Istvan Ladunga - Statistics**
Pluralistic and Stochastic Gene Regulation**
Nov. 3
Hiroko Ohmiya - Animal Science
CAGE technology and its application
Nov. 10
Emily Tosky / Reyna Perez - Animal Science
Speaker 1: Emily Tosky
Title 1: Investigation and validation of the role of a QTL on SSC12 in PCV2b viremia
Title 1: Investigation and validation of the role of a QTL on SSC12 in PCV2b viremia
Speaker 2: Reyna Perez
Title 2: Tips to submit a successful application to the Open Science Grid User School
Nov. 17
Katie Ochsner - Animal Science
Selection Index Development for Beefmaster Cattle
Nov. 24
Kashly Schweer - Animal Science
Genome-wide association study for feed efficiency traits in crossbred beef cattle
Dec. 1
Robel Ghebrewold - Animal Science
Genome-wide association study for temperature regulation in beef cattle
Dec. 8
Thomas Clemente - Agronomy & Horticulture
Development of a soybean-based feedstock for aquaculture
*note that the seminar in Room A222
**note that the seminar start at 2:15 pm in Room B101
**note that the seminar start at 2:15 pm in Room B101
Spring 2015 Animal Breeding and Genetics Seminar
When: Friday, 11 am - 12 pm
Where: Room A230, Animal Science Building
Organizer: Daniel Ciobanu
Jan. 30
Steve Kachman, Department of Statistics
A GWAS model for interval mapping in outbred populations
Feb. 13
Brett White, Department of Animal Science
Role of gonadotropin-releasing hormone II and its receptor in testicular function of swine
Feb. 20
Max Rothschild, Department of Animal Science, ISU
Role of livestock research in reducing food insecurity
Feb. 27
Dale Van Vleck, Department of Animal Science
A legend in animal breeding: C.R. Henderson
Mar. 06
Sydney Everhart, Department of Plant Pathology
Current advances in population genetic analyses for non-model organisms
Mar. 13
Danielle Wilson-Wells, Department of Statistics
The ABCs of Bayesian Regression modeling for GWAS
Mar. 20
No Seminar
Mar. 27
Spring Break
Apr. 03
Kristi Montooth, School of Biological Sciences
Manipulating the mitochondrial-nuclear genetic relationship to gain insights into developmental physiology
Apr. 10
Devendra K. Agrawal, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Research, Creighton University School of Medicine
Vitamin D, Immunomodulation and Coronary Artery Disease in Yucatan Microswine
Apr. 17
Sean Olson, Department of Statistics
Genomic Prediction of Reproductive Longevity in Sows
Apr. 24
Colin Meiklejohn, School of Biological Sciences
Regulation and evolution of sex chromosomes and the Drosophila male germline
May. 8
Jean – Jack Riethoven, Director, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Bioinformatics Core Research Facility Beadle Center for Biotechnology
Variant analysis in Sus scrofa / New services at the Bioinformatics Core Facility
Fall 2014 Animal Breeding and Genetics Seminar
When: Thursday, 1pm - 2pm
Where: Room A230, Animal Science Building
Organizer: Daniel Ciobanu
Sep. 17
Eli Grindflek, Norsvin/Topigs
R&D for sustainability and added value,Topigs Norsvin
Sep. 18
John Keele, US-MARC
DNA pooling to improve the feasibility of genome wide association studies of complex traits with low heritability
Oct. 2
Dale Van Vleck, Department of Animal Science
Bayesian Models (A-Z) with SNPs
Oct. 9
Nick Wu, GeneSeek (Neogen)
High-performance computation for genomic selection
Oct. 16
Mark Carlson, Department of Surgery, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy, UNMC
Overview of Porcine Biomedical Research in Omaha
Oct. 30
Gary Bennett, US-MARC
Selection to Enhance Estimates of Genetic Marker Associations in Cattle
Nov. 6
Napoleon Vargas-Jurado, Department of Animal Science
Bayesian inference: A link between my Master's and Ph.D. program
Nov. 13
Sara Nilson and Robel Ghebrewold, Department of Animal Science
Graduate Students Presentations
Nov. 20
Katie Ochsner, Department of Animal Science
Genetic and phenotypic parameter estimates for feed intake and other traits in growing beef cattle, and opportunities for selection (2011) K.M. Rolfe et. al., J. Anim. Sci.
Nov. 20
Kashly Schweer, Department of Animal Science
Comparison of molecular breeding values based on within- and across-breed training in beef cattle (2013) S.D. Kachman, et. al., Genetics Selection Evolution.
Dec. 5
Dr. Ronnie Green, Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Nebraska, Harlan Vice Chancellor, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Reflections on the Brilliance of Dr. Gordon E. Dickerson
Dec. 11
Emily Tosky, Department of Animal Science
SLAII region is associated with variation in Porcine circovirus 2 susceptibility
Dec. 11
Melanie Trenhaile, Department of Animal Science
Genomic analysis of the interaction between energy intake and SNP genotypes on age at puberty and reproductive longevity