Dr. Younes Miar is an Assistant Professor of Animal Genomics and NSERC Industry Research Chair in Mink Genomics at Dalhousie University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Animal Genomics from the University of Alberta and finished his postdoctoral fellowship in Statistical Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of Guelph prior to joining Dalhousie. Dr. Miar was recently awarded the Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture Early Career Research Excellence Award, and NSERC Early Career Researcher Supplement Award.