On Oct. 12, Terje Raudsepp, PhD, a professor at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, in College Station, honored her late friend and research collaborator by presenting the inaugural Teri Lear Memorial Lecture.

Her lecture on “the science and art of animal cytogenetics” took place in conjunction with the University of Kentucky (UK) Gluck Equine Research Center’s 30th Anniversary Research Seminar.

Teri L. Lear, PhD, was an equine genetics researcher and associate professor at the Gluck Center who passed away last year. Lear was one of the foremost experts in cytogenetics of the horse. During her time at the Gluck Center, she published numerous studies on equine genetics, trained masters and doctoral students, and was one of the leaders in the Horse Genome Project that resulted in the first description of a horse’s DNA sequence. Lear valued training graduate students, participating in conferences, and meeting scientists from around the world.

“My talk was aimed to show Dr. Teri Lear’s inspirational contribution to the science of equine cytogenetics and convey a message that chromosome analysis is and will remain an important approach for evaluating genetic soundness of breeding animals,” Raudsepp said. “My goal was to underscore that the era of genome sequencing has not diminished the value of cytogenetics

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