Julius van der Werf Professor in Animal Breeding & Genetics School of Environmental & Rural Science Phone: +61 2 6773 2092 Email: jvanderw at une.edu.au

Annual Armidale summer course 2027:

Fundamentals of Genomic Analysis and Prediction of Polygenic Traits 8-12 Feb 2027

Breeding Horizons Short Course 16-17 November 2026

Teaching at UNE

UNE Quantitative Genetics Units (ON = on-campus; OL = Online)

Unit ID	Unit Title	Teaching Period	Mode
GENE210	Introductory Genetics	TRI-1	OL, ON
GENE251	Introduction to Breeding and Genetics	TRI-2	OL, ON
GENE322	Genetics of Populations	TRI-1	OL
GENE351	Introduction to Breeding and Genetics	TRI-2	OL, ON
GENE352	Genomic Analysis and Bioinformatics	TRI-1	OL
GENE410	Introductory Genetics	TRI-1	OL, ON
GENE422	Genetic Evaluation and Breeding Program Design	TRI-3	OL, ON
GENE552	Genomic Analysis and Bioinformatics	TRI-1	OL

Teaching material, used for postgraduate courses

· Previous Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Courses

· Korea Materials on Breeding Program Design and Genomic Selection (3 days) 2016

· Uruguay Materials on Breeding Program Design and Genomic Selection (4 days) 2016

· Materials on linear models in animal breeding (2003)

· Index weights for single trait EBVs in Indexes

Teaching Materials and software

· Teaching Software   various Excel programs for animal breeding and genetics

· Industry Training (Sheep Genetics)

• Research and publications

• Google Scholar Citations
• Our recent book on “Advances in breeding of dairy cattle”
• Research interests
• Sheep CRC Genetics Program (ended July 2019)

§ School of Environmental and Rural Science

§ Homepage Brian Kinghorn

Last revision : Nov 2025