Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course
2017
Venue: University of New England, Armidale, NSW Australia
Course Audience: Postgraduate students and other professionals
Genotype by environment interaction in
breeding programs
Teachers: Piter Bijma and Han Mulder
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
Dates: Monday 30 January 2017 (9am) - Friday 3 February 2017 (4pm)
Content 2017 Course
Day 1
AM
Lecture: Basic concepts and
definitions (HM)
AM
Practical: Basic concepts
and definitions (HM)
PM
Lecture: General
concepts related to response to selection with G x E (PB)
PM
Practical: General concepts related to response to selection with G x E
(PB)
Day 2
AM
Lecture: Designs
and statistical models to estimate GxE (HM)
AM
Practical: GxE and breeding programs and
exploiting GxE (HM)
PM
Lecture: Genomics
to estimate GxE (SHL)
PM
Practical:
Genomics to estimate GxE (SHL)
Day 3
AM
Lecture: Quantitative
genetics of uniformity, effects of mating and inbreeding (PB)
AM
Practical: Quantitative
genetics of uniformity, effects of mating and inbreeding (PB)
PM
Lecture: Response
to selection in variance (HM)
PM
Practical: Response to selection in variance (HM)
Day 4
AM
Lecture: Estimating
genetic variance in variability (HM)
AM
Practical: Estimating
genetic variance in variability
(HM)
PM
Lecture: Modelling responses in multiple environments in plant
breeding trials (PB)
Lecture
1 Modeling GxE in plants
Lecture
2 Finlay
Wilison model
Lecture
3 AMMI and factorial regression
PM
Practical: Modelling responses in multiple environments in plant breeding
trials (PB)
Day 5
AM
Lecture1: Modeling variances in GxE in plant
breeding (PB)
AM
Lecture2: QTLxE models for GxE in plant
breeding (PB)
AM
Practical:Modeling variances in plant
breeding (PB)
PM
Lecture:TBA
MATERIALS PREVIOUS SUMMER COURSES
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