Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics has a number of PhD projects affiliated within various areas of the center's expertise. Click on the project titles below to learn more about the project and the PhD student behind it.
Project title: Hierarchical deep learning for better automatic pest classification and biodiversity monitoring in agroecosystems
Period: 1 July 2023 - 30 June 2026
Project title: FarmGTEx: understanding regulatory variants in farm animal species
Period: 1 November 2022 - 31 Oktober 2025
Project title: Farm animal Cell Atlas (FarmCA): exploiting regulatory variants and GWAS loci at single cell level
Period: 1 October 2022 - 30 September 2025
Project title: Balancing genetic gain and diversity in dairy cattle breeding schemes in the genomics era.
Period: 1 April 2022 - 31 March 2025
Project title: Evolutionary genetics and quantitative genetics across populations for plant breeding applications in cool-season grasses
Period: 1 January 2022 - 31 December 2024
Project title: Modeling the direct and indirect effects of cow genome on methane production to breed for less methane emitting cows
Period: 1 September 2021 - 31 August 2024
Project title: Identification of microbial determinants of low and high methane emission in cows through rumen whole microbiome sequencing
Period: 1 September 2021 - 31 August 2024
Project title: Improvement of feed efficiency in cattle through genomics and phenomics.
Period: 1 August 2021 - 31 July 2024
