Past Events

We are excited to announce our upcoming Spring Meat Draw in support of the United Way! We’ll be raffling off a variety of high-quality meat packages, while supporting  the important work United Way does in our community. Every ticket purchased helps make a difference for local programs and services. Simply purchase your tickets for a chance to win one of several incredible meat prize packages featuring premium cuts such as ribeye steaks, striploin steaks, blade roasts, sausages, stewing beef, ground beef, and more.

Hello CGIL,     We are happy to have Dr. Jennifer McClure, from the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center presenting for us on Friday, March 20th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Genetic defect recording- Searching for something no one wants to talk about” 

The Karrow lab is pleased to present a special guest seminar by Dr. Tomonori Nochi from Tohoku University.  From 10am-11am, Dr. Nochi present "Identification of a novel B cell subset orchestrating gut–liver homeostasis in chickens". This will be followed by a 2nd seminar titled "Current status and future perspectives of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for calf diarrhoea".

Hello CGIL,   This week we are pleased to welcome four students from the University of Guelph presenting for us on Friday, March 13th, 2026, as part of the course ANSC*6210: Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU 030 and on the virtual platform of Microsoft Teams. The titles of their presentations are:

Hello CGIL,    This week we are pleased to welcome four students from the University of Guelph presenting for us on Friday, March 6th, 2026, as part of the course ANSC*6210: Principles of Selection in Animal Breeding. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU 141 and on the virtual platform of Microsoft Teams. The titles of their presentations are: 

Hello CGIL,     We are happy to have Dr. Kerry Houlahan, from True North Genetics visiting us on Friday, February 27th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST in ANNU141 and on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Breeding to Bacon: The Science Behind the System.” 

 

Hello CGIL,     We are happy to have Dr. Adam Boyko, from Cornell University, presenting for us on Friday, February 6th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “The genetics of longevity and blood phenotypes in Golden Retrievers.”   

Hello CGIL,     We are happy to have Dr. Didier Boichard, from INRAE presenting for us on Friday, January 30th, 2026. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Integrating Structural Variants into Sequence-Based GWAS Using a bovine Pangenome”