John B. Cole's Presentations

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Unless otherwise noted, materials dated 2020 and earlier were produced by an employee of the United States government in the course of their official duties, and are in the public domain. Materials dated 2021 and later are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.



2024

Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council, 2024 Annual Meeting, Arlington, TX. November 12-14, 2024. The future of fertility traits: A CDCB perspective.
Beef Improvement Federation Symposium, Advancements in Genetic and Genomic Prediction Session, Knoxville, TN. June 11, 2024. What does the dairy industry know about inbreeding that you don't?
Breed4Food Consortium Meeting, Arnhem, The Netherlands (Virtual Presentation). May 2, 2024. The next 150 years of animal breeding: A North American perspective.

2023

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding, 2023 National Cooperator Dairy Database Workshop, Rosemont, IL. August 23, 2023. From the sky the highway's straight as it could be.
Dairy Tech 2023, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, UK. February 1, 2023. Sustainable dairying for the next 10 years and beyond.

2022

45th Argentine Animal Production Congress, Virtual. November 16–19, 2022. What is the cow of the future, and how will we create her?
NAAB 28th Technical Conference on Artificial Inseminiation and Reproduction, Milwaukee, WI. September 21–23, 2022. What is the sire's contribution to feed efficiency?
42nd ADSA Discover Conference: Managing Genetic Diversity for Future Dairy and Livestock Breeding, Naperville, IL. April 19–21, 2022. A new look at genetic evaluation.
Purdue University, Department of Animal Science, Breeding & Genetics Seminar., Virtual. April 2022. Truncation of IFT80 causes early embryonic loss in cattle.
National DHIA 57th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. February 21–24, 2022. The curse goes on and on: Thirsting for information on a sea of data.

2021

Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council Annual Meeting, Kansas City, KS. November 9–11, 2021. The future of selection decisions and breeding programs: What are we breeding for, and who decides?
Visions III: Star Gazing into the Galaxy of Animal Genetics and Genomics, Ames, IA. November 3 & 4, 2021. Exploring brave new worlds: Some thoughts on alternative protein sources.

2020

71st Annual Meeting of European Federation of Animal Science, Virtual Meeting. December, 2020. Truncation of IFT80 causes early embryonic loss in cattle (Session 32, Abstract 34708).
71st Annual Meeting of European Federation of Animal Science, Virtual Meeting. December, 2020. How to implement genomic selection (Session 02, Abstract 34701).
2020 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council Annual Meeting, November 12, 2020. Dairy cattle fertility in 12-y of genomics: lessons learned, current applications, and future development.
CGIL Seminar Presentation, Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, October 30, 2020. Truncation of IFT80 causes early embryonic loss in cattle.
2020 ASAS-CSAS Annual Meeting and Trade Show, Madison, WI. July, 2020. Opportunities and challenges from deep-phenotyping of dairy cattle.
Calving Traits Webinar, Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding, July 8, 2020. A labor of love: Making the calving traits easier to bear.
SION 2020 Breeders Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. May, 2020. Breeding the cow of the future. (Postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic.)
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Science Speaker Series, Natchitoches, LA. March 27, 2020. Essential service to [our] country: The science of sustainable and healthful food. (Postponed due to covid-19 pandemic.)
Virtual Animal Breeding Journal Club. March 25, 2020. Structural equation models to disentangle the biological relationship between microbiota and complex traits: Methane
production in dairy cattle as a case of study
.
National DHIA 55th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA. March 4, 2020. Current Research at AGIL, February 2020.
Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. February 18, 2020. Identification, validation, and management of Mendelian traits in livestock breeding programs.
Holstein Association USA, Genetic Advancement Committee Meeting, Hartford, CT. January 21, 2020. AGIL Research Update.
Plant and Animal Genome XXVIII Conference Genomics Blueprint Implementation Workshop, San Diego, CA. January 10, 2020. The new USDA Genome to Phenome Blueprint: A quantitative geneticist's perspective.
Plant and Animal Genome XXVIII Conference Cattle/Swine Workshop, San Diego, CA. January 11, 2020. Identification, validation, and management of Mendelian traits in livestock breeding programs.

2019

American Angus Association Breed Improvement Committee, St. Joseph, MO. September 10, 2019. Haplotype tests for recessive disorders that affect fertility and other traits in dairy cattle.
National Genetics Conference, Appleton, WI. June 27, 2019. Hay Burners versus Hay Converters (a.k.a. Feed Efficiency). (Presented on behalf of Dr. Kent Weigel, University of Wisconsin - Madison.)
National Genetics Conference, Appleton, WI. June 26, 2019. Pros and cons of hitchhiking: The truth about inbreeding in dairy cattle.
American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. June 26, 2019. Genomic predictions using more markers and gene tests. (Presented by Dr. George Wiggans, Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding.)
World Guernsey Cattle Federation 2019 Conference, Lancaster, PA, June 10, 2019. Opportunities for small breeds in the era of genomics.
10th Foro Nacional Holstein, Holstein de México, Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, México. May 30, 2019. The future of genomic evaluations of Holstein cattle.
Great Challenges to Science Workshop: How biotechnology can vanish world hunger (Como a biotecnologia pode acabar com a fome no mundo), Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga, Brazil, April 12, 2019. How does biotechnology drive change in the dairy sector?
National Dairy Herd Information Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 7, 2019. Everything you need to know about gene editing...in 25 minutes or less!
XXVII Plant & Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, January 12, 2019. Benefits from adoption of a new reference genome assembly and use of a larger SNP set in genomic predictions for US dairy cattle. (Cancelled due to government shutdown.)

2018

Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 30, 2018. Strategies for managing genetic disorders in dairy cattle.
SCC84 Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, October 23, 2018. SCC-084 AGIL Station Report, 2018.
Responsible Use of Gene Editing Steering Committee Meeting, Center for Food Integrity, Arlington, VA, July 26, 2018. Landscape of Breeding in Food and Agriculture - From Conventional to Gene Editing.
American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN, June 26, 2018. Methods to compute reliabilities for genomic predictions of feed intake.
American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN, June 25, 2018.     Identification of genomic regions associated with resistance to clinical mastitis in U.S. Holstein cattle. (Presented by Kristen Parker Gaddis.)
21st International Conference of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau, Columbus, OH, June 24, 2018. Possibilities in an age of genomics. The future of the breeding index.
National DHIA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 7, 2018. 2018 AGIL-AIP Update.
11th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Auckland, New Zealand, February 12, 2018. Genome-wide association study and gene network analysis of fertility, retained placenta, and metritis in U.S. Holstein cattle.

2017

Moorepark Food Research Centre, Teagasc, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland, December 14, 2017. Genetic improvement programs for U.S. dairy cattle.
Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland, October 13, 2017. How genetic selection can improve dairy profitability.
National Dairy Herd Information Association Board Meeting, Rosemont, IL, October, 2017. How selection for better health impacts dairy profitability.
DHI-Provo Herd & Feed Management Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2017. How selection for better health impacts dairy profitability.
Connections Weekend, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Natchitoches, LA, October, 2017. The science of feeding 9 billion people. (Not official USDA presentation.)
Department of Animal Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October, 2017. Management of Mendelian traits in breeding programs by gene editing.
Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Industry Meeting: Discover New Dairy Genetics, Madison, WI, October, 2017. How selection for better health impacts dairy profitability.
68th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, Tallin, Estonia, August 2017. Management of Mendelian traits in breeding programs by gene editing.
2017 Interbull Meeting, Tallin, Estonia, August 2017. Development of genomic evaluations for direct measures of health in U.S. Holsteins and their correlations with fitness traits.
American Society for Animal Science Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, July 2017. A dairy calf DNA biobank for the discovery of new recessive genetic disorders.
American Dairy Science Association Multidisciplinary and International Leadership Keynote (MILK) Symposium: The dairy cow in 50 years, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2017. Possibilities in an age of genomics. The future of the breeding index.
Symposium on Genetic and Genomic Selection in Dairy Cattle, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2017.
National DHIA Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, March 2017. 2017 AGIL-AIP Update.
Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade de São Paulo, Pirassununga, Brazil, February 2017. Managing recessive disorders in breeding programs by gene editing (PPTX)

2016

International Committee for Animal Recording 2016 Meeting, Puerto Varas, Chile, October 2016. Updated guidelines for the recording, evaluation, and genetic improvement of udder health in dairy cattle (PPTX)
18º Congresso Estadual de Medicina Veterinária e 1º Encontro de Buiatria do CONESUL, Canela, RS, Brazil. Strategies for managing genetic disorders in dairy cattle (PPTX)
Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinaria, Universidade de Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil, October 2016. Genetic and genomic improvement of US dairy cattle (PPTX)
Large Animal Genetic Engineering Summit, Bethesda, Maryland, September 2016. Management of many recessive disorders in a dairy cattle population using gene editing and sequential mate allocation (PPTX)
Department of Animal BioSciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, August 2016. Managing many recessive disorders in a dairy cattle breeding program using gene editing (PPTX)
2016 ADSA®-ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2016. Use of a threshold animal model to estimate calving ease and stillbirth (co)variance components for US Holsteins (PPTX)
Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 2016. The role of phenotyping in dairy cattle improvement in the genomic era (PPTX)
Large Dairy Herd Management Conference, Oak Brook, IL, May 2016. Improving production efficiency through genetic selection (PPTX)
51st National DHIA Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2016. What direction should US dairy research take in the future? and 2016 AGIL Update (both PPTX)
Embrapa Pecuária do Sul, Bagé, RS, Brasil, February 2016. Genetic improvement programs for US dairy cattle and Genomic selection in multiple-breed cattle populations (both PPTX)

2015


52a Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, July 2015. Genomic selection in multiple-breed cattle populations (PPTX)

2015 ADSA®-ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 2015. Genome-wide association study of fertility traits in dairy cattle using high-density single nucleotide polymorphism marker panels (PPTX)

The Rural Development Administration and Agricultural Research Service’s 5th Annual Cooperation Workshop, Jeonju-si, Korea, June, 2015. Genetic improvement of dairy cattle health using producer-recorded data and genomic information (PPTX)

ANEMBE XX Congress, Burgos, Spain, May 2015. What should you expect from genomic selection? and Genomic selection for traits other than production in dairy cattle (both PPTX)

Final OptiMIR Scientific and Expert Meeting, Namur, Belgium, April 2015. Using genotypes to construct phenotypes for dairy cattle breeding programs and beyond (PPTX)

CRV, Arnhem, The Netherlands, April 2015. Genomic improvement programs for US dairy cattle (PPTX)

50th National DHIA Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, March 2015. If we would see further than others: research & technology today and tomorrow and 2015 AGIL Update (both PPTX)

2014


Embrapa Gado de Leite
, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil, September 2014. Genetic improvement programs for US dairy cattle (PPTX)

Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil, September 2014. Using genotyping and whole-genome sequencing to identify causal variants associated with complex phenotypes (PPTX)

10th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2014, The hunt for a functional mutation affecting conformation and calving traits on chromosome 18 in Holstein cattle (PPT).

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Open Industry Meeting
, Linthicum Heights, MD, August 2014, An updated version of lifetime net merit incorporating additional fertility traits and new economic values (PPTX).

ASAS-ADSA-CSAS Joint Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, July 2014, An updated version of lifetime net merit incorporating additional fertility traits and new economic values (PPT).

International Committee for Animal Recording, Berlin, Germany, May 2014, Phenotypes for novel functional traits of dairy cattle (PPT).

National DHIA Annual Meeting
, St. Louis, MO, March 2014, Health and fitness data – what might be possible for dairy cattle? and AIPL Update (both PPT).

Plant an
d Animal Genome XXII, San Diego, CA, January 2014, Candidate causative mutation on BTA18 associated with calving and conformation traits in Holstein bulls (PPT).

3nd Annual BA-UMD Fall Symposium: Trends in Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, January 2014, Use of genomewide association mapping to identify chromosomal regions associated with rectal temperature during heat stress in Holstein cattle (PPT).

2013


Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, October 2013, New tools for genomic selection in dairy cattle (PPT).

5th International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics, September 2013, New applications of genomic technology in the US dairy industry (PPT) and Genomic evaluation of low-heritability traits: dairy cattle health as a model [poster presentation] (PPT).

Keygene
, May 2013, Genomic selection and systems biology ? lessons from dairy cattle breeding (PPT).

2013 ICAR Health Data Conference
, May 2013, Genomic evaluation of dairy cattle health (PPT).

Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR Livestock Research
, May 2013, Use of NGS to identify the causal variant associated with a complex phenotype (PPT).

National DHIA Annual Meeting
, March 2013, Opportunities for genetic improvement of health and fitness traits (PPT).

Italian Holstein Association Breeders Meeting
, February 2013, The use and economic value of genomic testing for calves on dairy farms (PPT); In Italian: Uso e valore economico dei test genomici in azienda (PPT).

2012


National Swine Improvement Federation Annual Meeting and Genetic Symposium, December 2012, Challenges and successes in dairy cattle genomics (PPT)

63rd European Association for Animal Production Meeting
, September 2012, Applications of haplotypes in dairy farm management (PPT); Poster: PyPedal, an open source software package for pedigree analysis (PPT)

ADSA/AMPA/ASAS/CSAS/WSASAS Joint Annual Meeting
, July 2012, An international overview of the recording and use of functional traits in dairy breeding and management (PPT)
38th ICAR Session, May 2012, Survey on the recording and use of functional traits in dairy management and breeding [presentation made by co-author] (PDF)
16th MAS-QTL Workshop, May 2012, Fine-mapping of QTL using high-density SNP genotypes (PPT)
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Sassari, May 2012, The U.S. genetic evaluation system (PPT), and New tools for genomic selection of livestock (PPT)
Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, April 2012, New Tools for Genomic Selection of Livestock (PPT)
Dairy Records Management Systems, April 2012, Genomic Selection in Dairy Cattle (PPT)
Select Sires Sire Evaluation Committee, March 2012, March 2012 AIPL Update (PPT)
2nd International Workshop on Genomics Applied to Livestock, February 2012, Genomics Beyond EBVs (PPT)

2011

European Association for Animal Production Meeting, August 2011, Genetic evaluations for birth weight: comparison of continuous and discrete definitions of birth weight under varying accuracies of recording [presentation made by co-author] (PPT)
ADSA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2011, Data structures and visualization (PPT)
37th ICAR Meeting, June 2011, Registration of health traits -- strategies of phenotyping, aspects of data quality and possible benefits [presentation made by co-author] (PDF)

2010

North Carolina State University, November 2010, What can we do with dairy cattle genomics other than predict more accurate breeding values? (PPT)
9th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 2010, Forty Years of Artificial Selection In U.S. Holstein Cattle Had Genome-wide Signatures [Poster Presentation] (PDF); Use of Haplotypes to Predict Selection Limits and Mendelian Sampling (PDF); and Walking the Cattle Continuum: Moving From the BovineSNP50 to Higher- and Lower-Density SNP Panels (PDF)
ADSA/PSA/AMPA/CSAS/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2010, Use of Haplotypes to Predict Selection Limits and Mendelian Sampling (PPT)
Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Meeting/National Association of Animal Breeders Meeting, April 2010, Using Haplotypes in Breeding Programs (PPT); and Genetic Evaluation of Age at First Calving (PPT)

2009

Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, November 2009, Biological Insights Gained from Genomic Prediction (PPT)
ADSA/CSAS/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009, Visualization of results from genomic predictions (PPT)
Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding Meeting, April 2009, Distribution and Location of Genetic Effects for Dairy Traits (PPT)
CRI Genomics Emerging Markets Program, March 2009, Distribution and Location of Genetic Effects for Dairy Traits (PPT)

2008

NAAB DSEC Meeting, October 2008, AIPL Update (PPT)
ADSA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2008, A data exchange format and national database for producer-recorded health event data from on-farm management software [Poster Presentation]
ICAR Session and Interbull Meeting, June 2008, Distribution and Location of Genetic Effects for Dairy Traits (PPT); and Data Collection Ratings and Best Prediction of Lactation Yields (PPT).

2007

AgriTech Analytics & Holstein Association USA Dairy Industry Event, September 2007, Best prediction of actual lactation yields (PPT)
Seminar for Department of Animal Science, Louisiana State University, September 2007, Overview of Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory (PPT); and Genetic Evaluation of Calving Traits in US Holsteins (PPT)
ADSA/PSA/AMPA/ASAS Joint Annual Meeting, July 2007, Estimation of yields for long lactations using best prediction (PPT)
Seminar for Department of Animal Science, University of Florida, June 2007, Validation of Producer-Recorded Health Event Data, and Use in Genetic Improvement of Dairy Cattle (PPT)

2006

Seminars for Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, October 2006, Dairy Cattle Breeding in the United States (PPT); and Genetic Evaluation of Calving Traits in US Holsteins (PPT)
8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August 2006, Genetic Evaluation of Stillbirth in US Holsteins Using a Sire-maternal Grandsire Threshold Model (PPT)
Joint ADSA/ASAS Annual Meeting, July 2006, Estimation of Stillbirth (Co)variance Components and Development of a Calving Ability Index (PPT)

2005

International Working Dog Breeding Association Conference, November 2005, Discrete time survival analysis of longevity in a colony of dog guides (PDF)
NAAB DSEC Meeting, October 2005, Stillbirth, Longevity and Fertility Update (PPT)
Joint ADSA/ASAS/CSAS Annual Meeting, July 2005, Genetic Evaluation and Best Prediction of Lactation Persistency (PPT)
Joint ADSA/ASAS/CSAS Annual Meeting, July 2005, Discrete time survival analysis of longevity in a colony of dog guides (PDF)

2004

Joint ADSA/ASAS/PSA Annual Meeting, July 2004, Breed Composition Codes for Crossbred Dairy Cattle with an Application to Calving Ease (PPT)
Joint ADSA/ASAS/PSA Annual Meeting, July 2004, Linear Versus Threshold Model Analysis of Trainability in a Colony of German Shepherd Dog Guides (PPT)
12th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals, July 2004, Genetic Improvement of Dairy Cattle Health (PPT)
BARC Poster Day, April 2004, Breed composition codes for crossbred dairy cattle in the United States [Poster Presentation] (PPT)

2003

Joint ADSA/ASAS/PSA Annual Meeting, July 2004, Genetic parameters for longevity in a colony of German Shepherd and Labrador Retriever dog guides [Poster Presentation] (PPT)