Mauricio A. Elzo currently works at the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida. Mauricio does research on models and procedures to improve the predictive ability of genetic evaluation, selection and mating strategies of straightbred and crossbred animals in national and international multibreed populations for individual traits and for functions of traits under multiple environmental conditions. Research covers methodological, computational, biological, and applied aspects of genomic and polygenic evaluation and estimation of genetic parameters in multibreed populations. Models and procedures are validated using national and international experimental and field multibreed data sets.