Detail View: Animal Science Interviews: Interview with Dr. Merlyn Nielsen

filename/tiff: 
080914-00014.mp4
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080914-00014.mp4
identifier/filename: 
080914-00014
title: 
Interview with Dr. Merlyn Nielsen
description: 
In this interview, Dr. Matt Spangler has a conversation with Dr. Merlyn Nielsen about his career as a quantitative geneticist who began a working in beef cattle and transitioned to developing long-term mouse selection lines. Dr. Nielsen grew up on a diversified farm in Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before completing his graduate studies at Iowa State University. He discusses how he developed a passion for Animal Breeding and his work related to food utilization and reproductive efficiency in a model species and in beef cattle.
date: 
8/9/2013
subject: 
Nielsen, Merlyn; Spangler, Matt; interview; mouse selection lines; beef cattle
extent/size: 
214207
medium/format/type: 
moving image
source/RG/MS: 
RG08-09-14
isPartOf/Collection: 
Animal Science Research Interviews
creator/photographer: 
Dr. Merlyn Nielsen (Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S. A.
contributor/collector: 
Dr. Matt Spangler (Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A.) [interviewer]
rights: 
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language: 
Eng
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https://mediacommons.unl.edu/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/SUPPL/UNL~116~116/426/080914-00014-14/as-14.vtt
caption_label_en: 
English