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Prof. Rosa Earns National ASAS Award
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 07/27/2016

A professor of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has earned some national recognition. Dr. Guilherme J. M. Rosa was named the recipient of the 2016 American Society of Animal Science's Rockefeller Prentice Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics during the group's annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr. Rosa has previously served as faculty in the Department of Biostatistics at Sao Paulo State University, Brazil, and in the Department of Animal Science at Michigan State University. He has a B.S. in Animal Science and M.S. in Animal Breeding and Genetics from Sao Paulo State University, Brazil. In addition, he has a Ph.D. degree in Statistics and Agricultural Experimentation from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a post-doctoral training at UW-Madison.

The ASAS Rockefeller Prentice Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics stimulates research excellence in breeding and genetics. The research upon which the award is based is original and on basic or applied research in breeding and genetics with any class of large or small animals.

Dr. Rosa conducts basic research in the areas of experimental design, statistical modeling, and data mining techniques applied to animal breeding and quantitative genetics/genomics. He also maintains a very active collaborative research program in genetics and genomics of various species including cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens.

The ASAS is a professional organization that serves more than 6,000 students, animal scientists, and producers around the world.


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