Post Doctoral Fellow (PDF), Veterinary Biomedical Sciences

Bison Integrated Genomics and Assisted Reproductive Technologies for Germplasm Biobanking (BIG ART)

Primary Purpose:

Bison are an integral part of the ecology of Canadian national parks. Parks Canada, along with other bison management agencies, requires genomic tools to provide solutions to manage zoonotic diseases and improve gene flow among herds without the risk of introducing disease.

The overall goal of the BIG project is to ensure the existence of healthy, genetically diverse bison, without domestic cattle or subspecies introgression, and with long-term sustainable genetic diversity in Canada’s bison herds. The specific objectives for this position are to facilitate the establishment of a bison genome biobank through:

• Collection of bison semen and oocytes from isolated conservation herds for in-vitro ...