Past Events

Antimicrobial resistance has been called the silent pandemic — and one of Canada's leading voices on the topic is coming to OAC. Join us for a public seminar by Dr. Tim McAllister (Principal Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), sharing key findings from the national GRDI One Health Antimicrobial Resistance program: a 33-scientist, 7-agency effort tackling resistance across the farm-to-fork continuum. Date: Thursday, September 10 Time: 9:30 a.m. — 1 hr talk + 30 min Q&A

Early-life Nutritional Programming of Growth, Metabolism, and Carcass Traits in Dairy-Beef Steers

EVALUATION OF ON-FARM PROCESSED FULL FAT SOYBEANS FOR USE IN PRACTICAL SWINE DIETS

Adapting dairy cows to automated milking systems: Influence of training and individual cow personality

Improving Swine Welfare and Production through Instance Segmentation-based Computer Vision and Machine Learning This thesis presents a computer-vision framework for monitoring group-housed pigs, pairing Deep-Learning-based Computer Vision with traditional Machine Learning to detect mounting behaviour and estimate live body weight from overhead video in barns. It also shows how validation design shapes reported accuracy, guiding how such systems should be evaluated.

FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC INSIGHTS INTO FEED EFFICIENCY IN CATTLE USING TRANSCRIPTOMICS

Optimizing protein nutrition to reduce antibiotic use and the environmental impact of broiler chicken production

Assessing the Portability of Methane Production SNP Effects from Dairy to Beef Cattle Populations

Time: 11:15AM-11:45AM 

Pediococcus acidilactici A1-2 as a Promising Antiviral Probiotic Candidate