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Mary Kate (on the left) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Improving genomic prediction methods and estimation of genetic parameters for large populations” on March 6th. […]

Usually, our research in heat stress attracts national and international interest. Lately it attracted an UGA journalism student Nathalee Simoneau, who needs to write a […]

Dr. Enrico Mancin from Padova University, Italy, came to our group for a short visit. He was surprised that UGA offers more than just science […]

UGA Animal Breeding and Genetics group recently participated in the Plant & Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California. At this event, doctoral students Jennifer […]

Current and former UGA AB&G lab members attend the Beef Improvement Federation Genetic Prediction Workshop in Kansas City, MO. Pictured from left to right is […]

UGA Ph.D. students Jennifer and Mary Kate traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, to attend the joint National Swine Improvement Federation and Poultry Breeder’s Roundtable conference. […]

UGA AB&G group traveled to Albuquerque, NM for the 2023 Animal Science meeting! Check out our conference presentations page for more information and PDFs of […]

Congratulations to Andres Legarra for receiving the 2023 J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding at the ADSA meeting in Ottawa, Canada!

Ignacy Misztal visited the National Dairy Development Board in India and gave nine lectures on genetic/genomic improvement at a training program. He thoroughly enjoyed the […]

Dr. Daniela Lourenco and Dr. Mehdi Sargolzaei lead the 2023 Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course at the University of New England on February 20-24th. The […]