Meet Prof. Jim Squires Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Jim Squires describes his research in applied biochemistry and shares insights on a specific dairy research project in the Department of Animal Biosciences.

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College
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Text: Prof. Jim Squires
Department of Animal Biosciences
Jim: My background is actually in biochemistry and molecular biology,
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and I came to Guelph some years ago because I really wanted to work on something that was not only basic but had some real applications
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to it as well. So I'm really, for me, my research is really applied biochemistry.
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Jim: Most basic scientists get to do very detailed work but in the end they never see any outcome from it.
But in our department we do the wide range of things that allows us to go from basic right to applied.
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Jim: One project that we just started, is to look at ketosis, which is a metabolic disease in dairy cattle that happens when milk production first initiates.
And it's an important problem to solve that really needs a genomics approach to do that because the heritability, it's susceptibility to regular selection is very poor.
So we've developed a set of selection tools to be able to
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produce dairy cattle that don't have ketosis.
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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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