Happy birthday A-matrix! (credits: Paul VanRaden)

Preprint alert: “The benefits and perils of import in small cattle breeding programs” led by Jana Obsteter, and with Janez Jenko Ivan Pocrnic and Gregor Gorjanc doi.org/10.1101/2022.1…

Latest national dairy cow numbers for the UK is down by nearly 50%. Meanwhile the number of cars has increased from 1.6mln to 33.2mln in the UK alone over the same period. Less cows, more cars but still it’s ruminants to blame for global warming. Good one.

Join our lameness research group and work on our Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funded project on digital dermatitis (Integrating clinical, data-driven and in-vitro approaches to the study of host-pathogen interactions in bovine digital dermatitis) UoL School of Veterinary Science Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences jobs.ac.uk/job/CXF154/pos…

Exciting opportunity: join us as a core scientist (open-end position) in the HighlanderLab at The Roslin Institute. While our university admin is yet to process the post documentation, we are open to inquires and expressions of interest.

Apply for the core scientist position in the HighlanderLab at elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

I’m looking for a core scientist to join me on the Roslin istitute. The overall objective of the lab is to enhance the current livestock breeding strategies by increasing their productivity, adaptability, and resilience through developing novel crossbreeding methods and tools.

New phenotypes, from an old method 🎯. Alot of re-inventing the wheel, goes into adapting a method to a species 🐟. Digitalisation helps reduce counting ⏱. Next steps: onwards to genetic evaluations 🧬 NewTechAqua 🐟🇪🇺 AquaIMPACT Nofima frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

ICAR Feed&Gas WG (ICAR.Official ) invites to a hybrid workshop (May 23, 2023, 8:30-13:00 CET) about phenotyping and genetic analyses of methane emission in cattle On-site: ICAR meeting in Toledo icar2023.es More info and registration: lnkd.in/eXkgu9Rv

Paper published now: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New paper: SIMplyBee: an R package to simulate honeybee populations and breeding programs gsejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Jana Obsteter Laura Strachan @jernejbubnic @janezpresern Gregor Gorjanc

AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 2: We start the week with a video on some fundamental biology. What are traits? What is DNA? How do the concepts of Nature and Nurture contribute to phenotypes? We show how we encode these concepts in AlphaSimR.

Happy to share our research on large-scale single-step evaluations and indirect genomic prediction. With Ismo Strandén Jan ten Napel Saeid Darbaghshahi Ross Evans Mario Calus Roel Veerkamp Andrew Cromie Esa Mäntysaari #wur_abg @LukeFinlandInt ICBF gsejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Paper alert: "Investigating the benefits and perils of importing genetic material in small cattle breeding programs via simulation" led by Jana Obsteter in collaboration with Janez Jenko Ivan Pocrnic

Our new paper is out! Check it out if you're interested what happens when importing in cattle populations Done in collaboration with Gregor Gorjanc Ivan Pocrnic Janez Jenko doi.org/10.3168/jds.20…

AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 2: Time to look into populations and genomes of individuals! Here showing some identificatons of individual in a population, their haplotypes and genotypes, and showing how we can do basic operations on this information.

Registration for this course is now open at jvanderw.une.edu.au/aabc2024.htm

Job available in machine learning and image analysis: jobbdirekte.no/norsvin/270626…

We are looking for a Senior Geneticist to join our great team focussed on genetic improvement of Atlantic salmon, details below: bmkgenetics.com/senior-genetic…

At the new boar testing station Delta Norway, the data gathered from CT-scans is processed by a new machine learning model. Read more about this innovative approach by Topigs Norsvin to improve carcass quality: bit.ly/3xgIMYE #porkquality #progressinpigs