Updates from the lab
Our paper on genetic parameters for alternative resilience phenotypes in Holstein cows has been published in JDS Communications. This work evaluates novel indicators of dairy cow resilience based on daily milk weight perturbations. Read paper →
We are excited to welcome Gabriel Zayas as a new postdoctoral researcher (Ph.D. University of Florida), André Aguiar Zambon as a new research specialist (M.S. UW-Madison), and Ümit Bilginer as a new Ph.D. student (M.S. Akdeniz University, Türkiye). Welcome to Madison!
Bruno Manuel D'Ambrosio Zeballos (Research Staff) and Federica Marín (Visiting Ph.D. Student from Uruguay) have completed their time with our lab. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.
Afees Abiola Ajasa joins our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Afees completed his Ph.D. at Nofima / NMBU in Norway, working on quantitative genetics and statistical genomics.
Our paper describing EnrichKit, a multi-omics tool for livestock research, has been published in Frontiers in Genetics. EnrichKit maps genomic coordinates to gene features and performs functional enrichment analysis for livestock species. Read paper →
Congratulations to Guillermo Martinez Boggio, who has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of California, Davis. Guillermo was a postdoc in our lab from 2023 to 2025 and will be greatly missed.
Our R-package for processing and reporting GreenFeed data has been published in JDS Communications. greenfeedr helps researchers and farmers process enteric methane and CO₂ emission data from dairy cattle. Read paper →
Our collaborative work with Dr. Jimena Laporta's group on the effects of pre-weaning heat stress on the liver transcriptome and DNA methylation in dairy calves has been published in the Journal of Dairy Science. Read paper →
