Seminars 2020-2021

3/29/21

Stepehn Richards, PhD
Project Scientist for the Earth BioGenome Project at UC Davis 
“Earth BioGenome Project: Beginning to Sequence Earth’s eukaryotes"
Video

4/05/21

Steve Davis, PhD
Senior Scientist, LIC New Zealand
"Breeding heat tolerant cattle by introgressing the Slick gene into a New Zealand diary cow"

4/12/21

Ryan McCreary
Sacramento District Supervisor, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services
“USDA APHIS Wildlife Services-Wildlife Damage Management”

4/26/21

Amie Romney, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist – Meyers Lab, UC Davis SVM
"Germ Cell Transplantation for Surrogate Fish Production in the White Sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus"
Video (restricted to UC Davis users only)

5/03/21

Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, DipEVPC
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
"Equine Parasite Diagnostics - Progress and Challenges"
Video (restricted to UC Davis users only)

5/10/21

Krista Sherman, PhD
Perry Institute for Marine Sciences
“Integrative Approaches for Conservation Management of Critically Endangered Nassau Grouper”
Video (restricted to UC Davis users only)

5/17/21

Jennifer Barfield, PhD
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
“Bison, Brucellosis, and Baby-making.”
Video

1/11/21

Aimable Uwizeye, DVM, MSc, PhD
Livestock Policy Officer, Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch (NSAL), Animal Production and Health Division (NSA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
"Fixing nitrogen challenges: Role of global livestock supply chains."
Video

1/25/21

Maria Camila Ceballos
Assistant Professor, Beef Cattle Welfare and Behavior, WA Ranches, Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary
"The importance of human-animal interaction for the welfare of farm animals"
Video (restricted to UC Davis users only)

2/1/21

Dr. John Bianchi, PhD
Vice-president of product development Revivicor, Inc
"The GalSafe® Pig:  Motivation for development and Overview of the Regulatory Path”

2/8/21

Cassandra Hart, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of California Davis
"Community Colleges and Instructional Responses to COVID-19"

2/22/21

Hans Stein, PhD
Professor of Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Transition in Food Protein Quality Evaluation"
Video

3/1/21

Jon Oatley, PhD
Professor, School of Molecular Biosciences, Director, Center for Reproductive Biology, Director, Functional Genomics Initiative, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University
“Surrogate Sires®: Next Generation Breeding Tool in Livestock Production”

3/8/21

Fernanda Carolina Ferreira, DVM PhD
Cooperative Extension Specialist, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
"Beef semen in dairy cows: a new profit center for dairy producers"
Video

9/28/20

Barbara Durrant, PhD
Henshaw Endowed Director of Reproductive Sciences, San Diego Zoo                 
"The Science of Saving Species"
Video (restricted to UC Davis users only)

10/5/20

Maria Belen Rabaglino, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Technical University of Denmark
"Application of bioinformatics and machine learning tools to identify biomarker genes predicting pregnancy in the cow"
Video

10/12/20

Fabio Lima, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine UC Davis
"Effect of Nerve Growth Factor-Beta on Bovine Reproduction"
Video

10/19/20

Anne Todgham, PhD, Amanda Frazier, MS, and Milica Mandic PhD
Associate Professor Department of Animal Science UC Davis, Anne Todgham
PhD student in Ecology, Amanda Frazier, and Postdoctoral Scholar, Milica Mandic
"Life on the ice: What it's like to work in Antartica"
Video

10/26/20

Kevin Wells, PhD
Associate Professor, Animal Sciences Research Center University of Missouri
"Genetically Engineered Disease Resistance in Livestock: Science, Supper, Society"

11/2/20

Lenya Quinn-Davidson BS, MA
Area Fire Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension
Director, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council
"Rethinking California’s Fire Problem"
Video

11/9/20

Gerardo Mackenzie, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Nutrition UC Davis
“A ketogenic diet as a treatment and prevention strategy in pancreatic cancer”

11/16/20

Elsio Wunder Jr, PhD
Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer School of Medicine, Yale University
"Leptospirosis: Advances in Prevention from a One Health Perspective"
Video

11/23/20

Massimo Bionaz, PhD
Associate Professor, Animal and Rangeland Sciences Oregon State University
"Role of milk in childhood obesity and bone development: behind the white mustache"
Video

11/30/20   

Daphne Gille, PhD
Scientist, Department of Water Resources
"To boldly go where no natural resource manager has gone before: preparing for population supplementation of Delta Smelt"
Video (restricted to UC Davis users only)

12/7/20

Jose Buratini, PhD
Professor, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) Botucatu, Brazil
"FSH activity in the regulation of oocyte quality: insights from clinical studies and animal models"
Video