Congratulations on your thesis defense!

This semester at UGA we had three of Dr. Ignacy Misztals students defend their masters/Ph.D. thesis!

Congratulations to

• Mary Kate Hollifield on the successful defense of her masters thesis titled ‘Persistence of Genomic Estimated Breeding Values and Impact of Censoring in Commercial Pig Evaluations’ on April 15th, 2021

• Dr. Jorge Angel Hidalgo Moreno on the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis titled ‘Changes in Genetic Parameters and Accuracy of Genomic Selection’ on May 26th, 2021

• Dr. Matias Bermann on the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis titled ‘Cross-validation in Genomic Predictions with Single Step GBLUP for Complex Models and Datasets’ on May 27th, 2021

Check out some photos from the defenses below!