Invited plenary lectures

Mike Goddard, Department of Primary Industry and University of Melbourne, Australia
Genomic selection in farm animal species - lessons learnt and future perspectives

Trudy Mackay, North Carolina State University, Raleigh (NC), USA
Systems genetics of complex traits in drosophila

Pardis Sabeti, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA   
Detecting and characterizing signals of recent evolutionary adaptation

Henning Steinfeld, Food and Agriculture Org. of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Livestock in Climate Change

Peter Visscher, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
Genome-wide association studies of complex traits in human populations: past, present, progress and implications for genomic selection in farm animals

Joachim von Braun, Int. Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., USA    
The role of livestock production for a growing world population