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: An Underground Tracking System to Characterize Novel Earthworm-Plant Interactions
Period: 1 June 2025 - 31 May 2028
Project title: Improving the efficiency of genomic research in genetically admixed populations
Period: 1 June 2025 - 31 May 2028
Project title: AI and Robotics for High-Throughput Environmental Response Mapping.
Period: 15 January 2025 - 14 January 2028
Project title: Novel breeding goals and optimized breeding schemes for beef cattle breeds to be used on dairy cows.
Period: 15 December 2024 - 14 December 2027
Project title: Establishment of an organic line of rainbow trout.
Period: 1 November 2024 - 31 October 2027
Project title: Machine learning to predict nitrogen leaching at field level.
Period: 15 October 2024 - 14 October 2027
Project title: Deep Learning for Biodiversity Monitoring: Comparison of Custom Imaging Platforms and Deep Learning to Classify and Phenotype Earthworms.
Period: 1 October 2024 - 30 September 2027
Project title: Developing methods for genomic evaluation of purebred beef bulls for a beef on dairy production system
Period: 1 August 2024 - 31 July 2027
Project title: Integrating Complex Multi-Layer Data to Accurately Predict Breeding Values for Methane Emission in Cows.
Period: 1 June 2024 - 31 May 2027
Project title: Hierarchical deep learning for better automatic pest classification and biodiversity monitoring in agroecosystems
Period: 1 July 2023 - 30 June 2026
Project title: Quantitative Methods and Machine Learning Models in Evolutionary Plant Population Genomics for Analysis of Variant Effects
Period: 1 February 2023 - 31 January 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: 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
