{"id":16,"date":"2018-08-17T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:01:23","slug":"about-the-mckay-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/about-the-mckay-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"About the McKay Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McKay lab performs genetic, genomic, epigenetic and epigenomic work with animals.\u00a0 Our primary interest is identifying epigenetic modifications associated with genetic variation of economically important traits in cattle.\u00a0 Another interest of the McKay lab is working on wildlife genetics.\u00a0 To date, we have been working on moose population genetics and bobcat epigenetics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/20170901_143313-e1534533210836-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/20170901_143313-e1534533210836-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/20170901_143313-e1534533210836-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/20170901_143313-e1534533210836-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/cow1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/cow1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/cow1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/cow1-768x769.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/cow1-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/files\/2018\/08\/cow1.png 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=xogpNtMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=xogpNtMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/a>\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McKay lab performs genetic, genomic, epigenetic and epigenomic work with animals.\u00a0 Our primary interest is identifying epigenetic modifications associated with genetic variation of economically important traits in cattle.\u00a0 Another interest of the McKay lab is working on wildlife genetics.\u00a0 To date, we have been working on moose population genetics and bobcat epigenetics. &nbsp; Publications:\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/about-the-mckay-lab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the McKay Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5175,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sdmckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}