Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2024
Venue: University of New England, Armidale, NSW Australia
Course Audience: Postgraduate students and other professionals
Theory and Tools for Designing Breeding
Programs
of Animals and Plants
Teachers:
Gregor
Gorjanc Professor & Royal Society Industry Fellow
University of Edinburgh / The Roslin Institute
Daniel
Tolhurst Edinburgh
Innovations Fellow, Highlander Lab
The Roslin Institute
Chris Gaynor Rice/OSR
Quantitative Geneticist at Bayer, O'Fallon, Missouri, United States
Jon Bancic Research
Fellow at the Highlander Lab/ The Roslin
Institute
Dates:
Monday 5 February – Friday 9 February 2024
Course Description:
This course will focus on theory and practical
tools to assist the design and evaluation of breeding programs for genetic
improvement. While the course will focus on the fundamental theories and tools,
applications will be shown both for animal and plant breeding programs. A
program of the course is below
Intended Audience
The intended audience is postgraduate
students, postdocs, and faculty with an interest in breeding programs and the
use of phenotypic, pedigree, and genomic information in the prediction and
utilization of genotypes with high genetic merit.
Program Feb 5 - 9 - 2024
Theory and Tools for Designing
Breeding Programs
of Animals and Plants
Day
1 Stochastic simulation of breeding programmes
Slides for Day 1:
Links to practical material (zip files)
Day
2 Quantitative genetics
Slides for Day 2:
Links to practical material (zip files)
Day
3 Estimation of genetic parameters using linear mixed models
Slides for Day 3
·
Introduction
to genetic evaluation
Links to practical material (zip file)
Practicals Day 3 (simulated genome data not included)
Day 4 Spatial
variation & Genotype-by-Environment interactions
Slides for Day 4
Design of plant breeding field trials
Spatial variation in linear mixed
models
A framework for simulating GxE
Links to practical material (zip file)
Further reading material on the topic
Day 5 Ancestral
recombination graphs (ARG)
Slides for
Day 5
·
Spatial Smallholders and APY
·
Ancestral Recombination Graphs
Practical for Day 5
Course photo 2024 summer course
Julius van der Werf with Gregor Gorjanc, Daniel Tolhurst,
Chris Gaynor, Jon Bancic and Hassan Aliloo from UNE
Material of previous years:
Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2023 Materials
·
Methods and Tool for Genomic
Predictions and GWAS in Breeding Programs Daniela Lourenco and Mehdi
Sargolzaei
- COVID
break -
Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2020 Materials
·
The Search for Selection:
Bruce Walsh and Michael Morrissey
Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2019 Materials
·
Introduction to Graphical
Models with Applications to Quantitative Genetics and Genomics: Guilherme Rosa and Francisco
Peñagaricano
Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2018 Materials
·
Mathematical modeling of
infection dynamics in genetically diverse livestock populations: Andrea
Doeschl-Wilson and Osvaldo Anacleto
Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2017 Materials
·
Genotype by environment
interaction in breeding programs: Piter Bijma and Han Mulder
Armidale Genetics Summer Course 2016 Materials
Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits &
Prediction of Phenotype
from Genome-wide SNPs - Doug Speed and David Balding
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2015 Materials
•
Primer to genomic
analysis using R:
Cedric Gondro
•
From Sequence Data to
Genomic Prediction: Ben Hayes
and Hans Daetwyler
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2014 Materials
Breeding Program Design with Genomic Selection: Jack Dekkers, Julius van
der Werf
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2012 Materials
Statistical Methods for Genome-Enabled Selection: Daniel Gianola, Gustavo de
los Campos
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2011 Materials
·
Statistical
methods and design in plant breeding and genomics: Ian Mackay
·
IBD
inference in genome association studies: Elizabeth Thompson
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2010 Materials
·
Application of
evolutionary algorithms to solve complex problems in quantitative genetics
and
bioinformatics: Brian Kinghorn, Cedric Gondro
·
Bayesian methods in genome association studies: Dorian Garrick, Rohan
Fernando
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2009 Materials
·
Quantitative
Genetic Theory and Analysis- Selection
Theory: Bruce
Walsh
·
Quantitative
Genetic Models for social interaction and inherited variability: Piter
Bijma
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2008 Materials
·
Genomic
Selection: Ben Hayes
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2007 Materials
·
Generalized Linear Mixed Models:
Steve Kachman
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2006 Materials
·
Gene Expression:
Toni Reverter
·
Breeding Program Design:
Graser,
James, Van der Werf
Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2003 Materials