6. Årsmøde

Session 1 - Scientific Focus Area 1: Understanding the genetic basis of complex traits

• Introduction to the session by the chair, and overview of genomic feature models. (Senior scientist Peter Sørensen, QGG-AU)
• Gene mapping in cattle: lessons learnt from genome-wide variants. (Senior scientist Goutam Sahana, QGG-AU)
• Understanding Gene by Environment Interactions in Ryegrass. (Senior scientist Torben Asp, MBG-AU)
• Building genomic resources for breeding in a new species - mink as an example. (Senior scientist Goutam Sahana, QGG-AU / postdoc Zexi Cai, QGG-AU)  

Session 2 - Scientific Focus area 2: Genomic prediction in animals and plants

• Introduction to the session by the chair. (Senior scientist Luc Janss, QGG-AU)
• Use of metabolomics in pig, barley and cattle. (Senior scientist Pernille Merete Sarup, QGG-AU)
• Adjusting for macro-environmental sensitivity in growth rate. (Research assistant Mette Dam Madsen QGG-AU)
• Use of whole genome sequencing, fine mapping and custom LD chips in cattle. (Professor Mogens Sandø Lund, QGG-AU)
• From project to practice, successful implementation of GS in a commercial barley breeding program (Breeder Jens Due Jensen, Nordic Seed)

Session 3 - Scientific Focus Area 3: Assessment and optimization tools

• Introduction to the session by the chair. (Senior scientist Anders Christian Sørensen, QGG-AU)
• Pedigree relationships to control inbreeding in optimum-contribution selection realize more genetic gain that genomic relationships (Senior scientist Mark Henryon, SEGES)
• Impacts of GxE on breeding program decision-making using genomic selection. (PhD student Lu Cao, QGG-AU)
• Application of genomic selection in wheat breeding. (Postdoc Biructawit Bekele Tessema, QGG-AU)
• Changes in the pig breeding program in Denmark after GenSAP. (Senior scientist Mark Henryon, SEGES and Manager of Breeding and Genetics Tage Ostersen, SEGES)

Session 4 - Future challenges for research and industry in development and application of genomic selection

• Introduction to the session by the chair. (Professor Just Jensen, QGG-AU)
• Alternative models for quantitative genetics and genomics. (Professor Daniel Gianola, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• Future use of big data in animal and plant breeding (Professor Peer Berg, QGG-AU and NMBU Norway)
• Super-large-scale genomic selection (Professor Theo Meuwissen, NMBU, Norway)
• Functional genomics to understand gene function and gene regulation (Professor Michael Goddard, University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Current status and future needs for grass breeding programs. (Head of turf research Christian Sig Jensen DLF)
• Current status and future needs in cattle breeding programs (Senior scientist Jørn Rind Thomassen QGG-AU and VikingGenetics)
• Closing remarks on GenSAP. (Professor Mogens Sandø Lund, QGG-AU)