Another excellent CGDG seminar!

🧬 Thank-you to Dr Bingjie LI, group leader at SRUC, for joining us yesterday to speak with us about, "Integrating genetics, multi-omics, and artificial intelligence to understand dairy feed efficiency"! 🌾 🐄 🥛

🧬 Thanks to Dr Fasil Kebede, researcher at the Roslin Institute and CTLGH for speaking with us today on, "A tale of two chicken genetic improvement approaches in the tropics: entry points for breeding and genomics", and for the lively discussion that followed! 🐓

📢 Join us on Tuesday, April 8th at 3 PM (UK time) for our next CGDG seminar with Dr Katia Bougiouri, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen, for her talk on, "Limits and best practices for local ancestry inference in imputed ancient genomes". 🦴🧬

📺 This week Dr Chinyere Ekine-Dzivenu presented to us on "Heart Girth Tracking: A Novel, Practical, and Low-Cost Tool for Assessing Climate Resilience in Resource-Limited Settings". 🧬 🐄 If you missed the seminar, the recording is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/yctFcxP0Xsk?...

Don't forget to join us tomorrow at 3 PM, in-person or online. Email us if you'd like the link.

📢 Join us on Tuesday, March 25th at 3 PM (UK time) for our next CGDG seminar with Dr Chinyere Ekine-Dzivenu PhD, statistical geneticist at ILRI, for her talk on "Heart Girth Tracking: A Novel, Practical, and Low-Cost Tool for Assessing Climate Resilience in Resource-Limited Settings". 🐄 🧬

📺 Yesterday Dr Kyle Ewart presented to us on the "Development of adaptable diagnostic tools to address One Health challenges". 🧬 🦠 If you missed the seminar, the recording is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/7LNAdLnwWzM?...

Join us today for a new CGDG seminar with Dr Kyle Ewart, Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow @roslininstitute.bsky.social for his talk on "Development of adaptable tools to address One Health challenges"! 3 pm UK Time, in person or online 📩 us [email protected] to get the link 🧬💻

Join us today for a special CGDG seminar with Dr Marta Godia from @w-u-r.bsky.social for her presentation on "Epitranscriptomics and epigenetics: getting the most out of your Illumina and ONT data" 3 pm UK Time, in person @roslininstitute.bsky.social or online 📩 us [email protected] to get the link 🧬💻

Full house today at the Roslin Institute for our special seminar with @bertrandservin.bsky.social! Bertrand's visit to the Roslin Institute was funded through our IDG connectivity grant and we were thrilled to host him in Edinburgh! Stay tuned, there will be more seminars in the coming weeks 🧬💻 🧪

📢 Join us today for the CGDG seminar at The Roslin Institute! Time: 3 PM UK Speaker: @bertrandservin.bsky.social (INRAE) 📚Talk: "Selection signatures in livestock genomes: from hard sweeps to polygenic selection" We are thrilled to host this seminar as part of our IDG grant.

📺 On Tuesday Dr @cammybeyts.bsky.social spoke with us on "Behavioural ecology meets animal breeding: behavioural and genetic drivers of chick production in farmed Pekin ducks". If you missed it, you can watch it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/hDp5dZPatVI 🐣🧬💻👩‍🔬🧪

Don't forget to join tomorrow for @cammybeyts.bsky.social seminar if you're interested in the genetics of ducks behaviour 🧬💻 🦆 Email us 📩 [email protected] to get the link to the seminar

Happy new year! ⏰ in the next CGDG 💻🧬 seminar will be the 14/01 at 3pm UK Time we will have the pleasure to host @cammybeyts.bsky.social from The Roslin who will talk about Behavioural ecology meets animal breeding: behavioural and genetic drivers of chick production in farmed Pekin ducks 🦆 🧪👩‍🔬

📺 In our seminar last week Dr Hannes Becher from @highlanderlab.bsky.social spoke about "Assembly-free estimation of population parameters using single-individual k-mer spectra". 🧬💻 If you missed the seminar, the recording is now available on our YouTube channel 👇 youtu.be/-wHqNbdpEog?... 🧪

⏰ The next CGDG 💻🧬 seminar will be the 03/12 at 2pm UK Time and we will have the pleasure to host Dr Florence Phocas from INRAe who will talk about *Why and how to include performance of triploid fish in the genetic evaluation of their diploid sibs?*🐟 📩 [email protected] to get the zoom link 🧪👩‍🔬

📺The recording of our seminar "Evolution of regulatory networks associated with aquaculture relevant traits" by Dr Tarang Mehta is now available on our YouTube channel! If you missed it you can watch it now online 🐟🧬 You can also watch our previous seminars on our channel 💻🧬 🧪 youtu.be/D4xpo-gr9Z4

⏰ Join us for the next CGDG seminar on 26/11 at 15:00. Dr Hannes Becher from @highlanderlab.bsky.social will be talking about "Assembly-free estimation of population parameters using single-individual k-mer spectra".🧬💻 📩 Email us ([email protected]) if you'd like access.

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're a discussion group from The Roslin Institute (in Scotland) for researchers interested in Computational Genetics and Genomics of livestock 🐮🐷🐑🐟 and plants 🌾☘️🌽 We host seminars every 3 week, check out our YouTube channel 👉 youtube.com/@cgdg-comput... 💻🧬