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
4:00pm
Rm 146

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

"Genomic testing of dairy replacement females: New opportunities for dairy management research and outreach"

3/13

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

TBA

3/20

Spring Break

3/27

OPEN

3/29
THURSDAY

Dr. Paula Ospina
Ph.D. Candidate Animal Science Department Cornell University

TBA

4/3

Dr. Wansheng Liu
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Y Chromosome Genomics: What have we learned from the bovine Y?

4/10

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

Genetics of Embryo Quality in Cattle

4/17

open

4/24

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

TBA

4/30
Monday

Karsten Suhre, PhD
Director Bioinformatics Core, Professor of Biophysics and Physiology, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Qatar Foundation-Education City, Doha, State of Qatar

Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research

5/1

Dr. Tanveer Hussain
Visiting Fellow, Imumorin Lab

Genetic Diversity of Cytokine Genes in Cattle