CGIL Seminar - Predictions - Understanding the Balance Between Accuracy and Utility

Hello CGIL,   

We are happy to have Dr. Donagh Berry, from Teagasc, Ireland presenting for us on Friday, October 10th, 2025. The seminar will begin at 1:30 PM EDT/EST on the virtual platform Microsoft Teams. The presentation title is: “Predictions - Understanding the Balance Between Accuracy and Utility” 

Speaker Biography: Donagh Berry is a senior principal investigator in quantitative genetics at Teagasc, Ireland holding professorships at several (inter)national universities; as well as research, he is strongly engaged in third-level education and extension to a wide range of different stakeholders. Following his BAgrSc at University College Dublin he undertook a PhD in quantitative genetics in a collaboration between Teagasc, Wageningen University and University College Dublin, Ireland followed by an MSc in Bioinformatics at University College Cork, Ireland. Working across species (i.e., dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, horses), his research interests are in phenotyping strategies, breeding goal development and deployment, genetic evaluations, and genomic predictions. He has published 400 peer reviewed journal publications. 

Information to attend: To join this seminar, please ensure you have downloaded the Microsoft Teams application to your computer or join the meeting online using the web browser version of Microsoft Teams. Please join the meeting with your microphone on mute and the camera turned off. After the presentation, you can unmute the microphone, and optionally turn on the camera, if you wish to ask a question. Alternatively, if you wish to pose your question in the chat function, the presenter will answer questions made through the chat.   

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*Recordings of previous CGIL seminars are available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAQ_5WCTMRQ6Gs35yROqGIQ/featured    

 

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!   

 

Gabby Condello and Julia Rodrigues.