José Carrillo, Ph.D.
Chief Data Officer
José Carrillo has served as Chief Data Officer since September 2020 after joining CDCB in July 2018 as Genomic Data Manager. He obtained his doctorate in Veterinary Sciences in 1995 at the National University of Asunción in Paraguay and has an MBA from the Polytechnic University of Cataluña, Spain (1998). His research specialized mainly in livestock breeding and genetic improvements.
José served as a university professor for 10 years and joined the University of Maryland as a Faculty Research Assistant in 2007. In 2011, he graduated with a Master’s degree in Animal Science (Quantitative genetics and animal breeding), and in 2016, he earned a Ph.D. (genomics and epigenomics). Prior to joining CDCB, he worked as a geneticist at PIC.
Projects & Publications
Constructed ID's: Eliminating Pedigree Dead Ends
Knowing an animal’s ancestry several generations back is certainly the goal for breeders; however, there are instances where animals have a gap in their pedigree. To fill in more pedigree gaps, CDCB is implementing a new solution starting in February 2023.
Genomic Selection in U.S. Dairy Cattle
The genomic selection program for dairy cattle in the United States has doubled the rate of genetic gain.
6 Million Genotypes!
The national cooperator database hit a new mark on February 19, 2022, with six million genotypes recorded.
Diet induced the change of mtDNA copy number and metabolism in Angus cattle
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2020
The profiling of DNA methylation and its regulation on divergent tenderness in angus beef cattle
Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
Genotype-environment interaction for age at first calving in Limousine and Charolais cattle raised in Italy, employing reaction norm model
Livestock Science, 2020
DNA methylation, microRNA expression profiles and their relationships with transcriptome in grass-fed and grain-fed Angus cattle rumen tissue
PLoS One, 2019
Male fertility status is associated with DNA methylation signatures in sperm and transcriptomic profiles of bovine preimplantation embryos
BMC Genomics, 2017
Integrated metabolomic and transcriptome analyses reveal finishing forage affects metabolic pathways related to beef quality and animal welfare
Scientific Reports, 2016
Ruminal Transcriptomic Analysis of Grass-Fed and Grain-Fed Angus Beef Cattle
PLoS One, 2015