Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2009

Quantitative Genetic Theory and Analysis

Venue:    University of New England, Armidale, NSW Australia
Dates:     Monday February 2 – Friday February 13 2009

Module 1: Quantitative Genetic Theory and Analysis: Selection Theory

Lecturer: Professor Bruce Walsh, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Topics:                                             link to Materials

• The basic breeders equation and its extensions
• The Bulmer effect and other Gaussian models
• Population genetics of selection
• The infinitesimal model and beyond
• Long-term selection: infinite populations
• Long term selection: finite populations
• Multiple-trait selection: Introduction
• Measuring selection on multiple traits
• Multiple-trait selection:  Applications

Module 2: Quantitative Genetic Models for social interaction and inherited variability

Lecturer: Dr Piter Bijma, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Topics:

• Introduction & Quantitative genetics of traits affected by social interactions slides
• Estimating genetic parameters and breeding values for social effects from field data slides
• Breeding designs tad response to selection for social effects slides
• A special case of social effects: Traits affected by maternal genetic effects slides
• Evolutionary genetics of social interactions: kin and group selection theory slides
• Inheritance of variability slides

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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 2005 Materials

Breeding Objectives: Gibson, Van der Werf, Kinghorn

Scientific Writing: David Lindsay

ASReml: Arthur Gilmour

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2004 Materials

Bayesian for Beginner Kerrie Mengersen

Bayesian Models for QTL analysis Michel Perez-Enciso

Bioinformatics John McEwan

Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course 2003    Materials

Scientific Writing: David Lindsay

Linear Models for animal breeding: Julius van der Werf, Mike Goddard

QTL detection models: Julius van der Werf, Ben Hayes

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Contact                        Julius van der Werf 

                                    Animal Genetics, UNE

                                    phone: 02 6773 2092; 

                                    fax 02 6773 3955

  julius.vanderwerf (at) une.edu.au