Meet Prof. Christine Baes Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Christine Baes describes her research on livestock genomics.

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Christine: My research focuses on uncovering and understanding the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in dairy cattle, but also in other species of livestock,

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Christine: so this research is important because it provides us with an excellent opportunity to improve the productivity the welfare and the health of our farm animals.

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Christine: It also allows us to understand better how genes actually affect the phenotypes that we can observe in our animals.

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Christine: Right now we have a fantastic research project on reducing the methane emissions and increasing feed efficiency in dairy cattle. This is a very internationally scoped large-scale project with partners across across the world.
My role in this project is going to be involved involving sequence data, so next-generation sequence data is a sort of new technology that's become available to geneticists around the world since the sequencing of the bovine genome in 2009, so I hope that we can find that we can really make an impact on [music fades in] improving the environment through this project.

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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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