Yao to present Benedum lecture April 11
Dr. Jianbo Yao, associate professor of animal biotechnology and genomics in the Davis College’s Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, has been recognized with the Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, which honors excellent faculty in creative research at West Virginia University.
He has contributed significant research into the fields of molecular genetics of rainbow trout and physiology and genetics in bovine reproduction. He heads the Rainbow Trout Genome Project in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and his work has been widely noticed and cited by fish and aquaculture scientists.
Dr. Yao will present his lecture on “Functional Characterization of Oocyte-specific Maternal Effect Genes in Cattle” on Tuesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Room 101A of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy on WVU’s Evansdale Campus.
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