Zoom links will NOT be publicly shared (e.g., on Twitter). The closed (members-only) Google Group is the only place that information will be posted. There is a link to the left to the group page. I'm able to approve most join requests with an hour or so of the request.

September 23, 2020. Danang Crysnanto, ETH Z|rich. Bovine breed-specific augmented reference graphs facilitate accurate sequence read mapping and unbiased variant discovery (Link to paper.)

September 9, 2020. Dr. Pablo Fonseca, University of Guelph. GALLO: Genomic Annotation in Livestock for Positional Candidate LOci. (Link to paper.)

August 26, 2020. No meeting held.

August 12, 2020. Dr. John B. Cole, USDA. Some thoughts about writing scientific software.

July 29, 2020. Dr. Daniel Runcie, University of California, Davis. MegaLMM: Mega-scale linear mixed models for genomic predictions with thousands of traits. (Link to paper.)

July 15, 2020. Dr. Daniel Jordan de Abreu Santos, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. Gamevar.f90: a software package for calculating individual gametic diversity. (Link to paper.)

July 1, 2020. Troy Rowan, University of Missouri. Powerful detection of polygenic selection and environmental adaptation in US beef cattle populations. (Link to paper.)

June 17, 2020. No meeting held.

June 3, 2020. Dr. Rostam Abdollahi-Arpanahi, University of Florida. Reinventing quantitative genetics for plant breeding: something old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE. (Link to paper.)

May 20, 2020. Dr. Hao Cheng, University of California, Davis. Fast parallelized sampling of Bayesian regression models for whole-genome prediction. (Link to paper.)

May 6, 2020. Dr. Tatiane Chud, CGIL, University of Guelph. Effect of genomic selection on rate of inbreeding and coancestry and effective population size of Holstein and Jersey cattle populations. (Link to paper.)

March 25, 2020. Dr. Christian Maltecca, Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University. Microbiability of meat quality and carcass composition traits in swine. (Link to paper.)

April 8, 2020. Dr. Martin Johnsson, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. An eQTL in the cystathionine beta synthase gene is linked to osteoporosis in laying hens. (Link to paper.)

March 25, 2020. John B. Cole, Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, ARS, USDA. Structural equation models to disentangle the biological relationship between microbiota and complex traits: Methane production in dairy cattle as a case of study. (Link to paper.)