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Project coordination
Course Genomic Selection in Livestock in June/July 2011
The Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre from Wageningen UR (with Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences - WIAS), and agn Genetics, Switzerland (formerly applied genetics network) are organizing the course Genomic Selection in Livestock in Wageningen, The Netherlands, and in Davos, Switzerland.
Aim of the course
The aim of the course is to provide to post graduate students and professionals working in animal breeding the basic theory in genetic evaluation using whole genome data and using it in practical data analyses.
Dates
- Course 1: June 20 - 24, 2011 in Davos, Switzerland.
Please note: This workshop is one of the LowInputBreeds workshops for early stage researchers and agricultural advisors/technologists
to facilitate an exchange of ideas/opinions and know-how and encourage potential future collaboration.
Applicants should send their applications (CV plus motivation letter) to
veronika.maurer@no-spam.fibl.org by April 26.
For more information see here. - Course 2: June 27 - July 1, 2011 in Wageningen, The Netherlands
Course outline
Bayesian Methods (Gibbs-, Metropolis-Hastings Sampler), Models to predict SNP effects and map QTL (BayesA, B, C, G-BLUP, Lasso, PLS), Interpretation of SNP Effect estimates, Validation of results, Estimating SNP effects using high and low density SNP panels, imputation. For an example of a previous course of Rohan Fernando and Dorian Garrick, see www.ans.iastate.edu/stud/courses/short/.
Teachers
Rohan Fernando & Dorian Garrick, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA
Credit points
- Wageningen 1.5 ECTS (through WIAS)
- Davos: Confirmation of attendance.
Credit points can be obtained through your local post graduate programme.
Costs
- Wageningen: 500 Euro for academia and 1000 Euro for others.
- Davos: 800 CHF for academia and 1300 CHF for others.
The price includes lunch. Dinner and accommodation are not included. After registration you will receive an invoice. Participants are only accepted after receiving their registration fee. If there are not enough people registering for one of the courses, we reserve the right to cancel one or both of them.
Registration and more information
- To register for course 1 in Davos, please send an email to stricker@no-spam.genetics-network.ch.
- To register for course 2 in Wageningen, please send an email to mario.calus@no-spam.wur.nl.
For each course the maximum number of participants is 50. Registration starts immediately and ends at March 31, 2011.