Main Topics
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Please note that the printed program booklet will be inside your conference bag.
Species breeding
- Dairy cattle and buffalo breeding (jointly with Interbull)
Chair: Hermann Swalve (D) - Beef cattle breeding
Chair: Rodolfo Cantet (RA) - Sheep and goat breeding for milk, meat and fibre
Chair: James Kijas (AUS) - Pig breeding
Chair: Pieter Knap (D) - Poultry breeding (chicken – layers, chicken – broilers, other poultry species)
Chair: Badi Besbes (I) - Horse breeding
Chair: Ernest Bailey (USA) - Breeding in aquacultural species
Chair: Raul Ponzoni (FM) - Breeding of further species (rabbits, grass cutter, companion animals etc.)
Chair: Manuel Baselga (E)
Genetics of trait complexes
- Reproduction
Chair: Heiner Niemann (D) - Lactation
Chair: Didier Boichard (F) - Growth, development, feed intake and efficiency
Chair: Rainer Röhe (UK) - Disease resistance
Chairs: Marie-Hélène Pinard-van der Laan (F), Pete Kaiser (UK) - Behaviour
Chair: Piter Bijma (NL) - Product quality (meat, milk, etc.)
Chair: Dave Gerrard (USA)
Methods and tools
- Statistical and genomic tools for mapping QTL and gene discovery
Chair: Georg Thaller (D) - Population genomics, SNP discovery and genome sequencing
Chair: Henner Simianer (D), Ino Curik (Croatia) - Functional genomics and systems biology
Chair: Dirk-Jan de Koning (UK) - Statistical methods - linear and non-linear models
Chair: Rob Tempelman (USA) - Software and bioinformatics
Chair: Xiangdong Ding (China)
Genetic improvement programmes
- Advances in selection theory including experimental demonstrations
Chair: Miguel Toro (ES) - Selection using molecular information
Chair: Johan van Arendonk (NL) - Design of selection schemes exploiting additive and/or non-additive effects
Chair: Leo Dempfle (D) - Selection for harsh environments (e.g. tropics)
Chair: Fernando Madalena (BR) - Breeding objectives and economics of selection schemes
Chair: Peter Amer (NZ) - Management of animal genetic resources - quo vadis after the state of the world report (jointly with FAO)
Chair: Arthur Mariante (BR)
Special topics
- Breeding and animal welfare
Chair: Lotta Rydhmer (S) - Animal breeding and the environmental challenges
Chair: John Gibson (AUS) - Education and training
Chair: Birgitta Malmfors (S)
Software demonstration
During the poster sessions software may be demonstrated. Tables with power and wifi Internet will be available for use with your own laptop. You may announce your demonstration on a one page sheet of paper which you can put on a pin board in the demonstration area.Please direct your announcement to Eildert Groeneveld (Member of the Organizing Committee).
