A free online course on "Breeding Programme Modelling with AlphaSimR" will launch this summer on edX! Discover how breeding and genetics can contribute to #sustainable food production 🌽🥕🍎🐟🐮🐣🐝🐛 Register at edin.ac/3zRo6FW Read the 🧵! WCGALP2022

Next week's seminar (14th July, ❗️11am UK time) is by Jesse Hoff on "Sequencing as a Foundation of Modern Genomic Improvement" @gencove @hoffsbeefs Please email us if you'd like to attend online [email protected]

Check our new preprint on “Genomic selection for genotype performance and stability using information on multiple traits and multiple environments“. Fantastic collaboration with Daniel Tolhurst, Ben Ovenden, and Gregor Gorjanc. dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

Join us for the last seminar this summer on 04/08/22 4pm UK time by Valerio Hoyos-Villegas @McGillHaricots on  "Phenomics-enabled breeding: increasing resolution for improving complex traits". Get online access details per mail 📨[email protected]

New paper: Genomic selection using random regressions on known and latent environmental covariates led by Daniel Tolhurst link.springer.com/article/10.100… @ChrisGaynor11 Brian Gardunia John Hickey

New paper: Genomic selection strategies to increase genetic gain in tea breeding programs. Led by Nelson Lubanga and Jon Bančič in collaboration with Festo Massawe and Sean Mayes. Acknowledging support from DDI The Roslin Institute The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies The University of Edinburgh TRAIN@Ed MSCA COFUND project

Hi computational genetics people 👋 We're back with our talks. Next week 22/11/22 4pm UK time, CJ Yang CJ Yang speaks about "Defining the causes and consequences of phantom epistasis in heterotic hybrids". Join us The Roslin Institute or online (📨[email protected])

Our very own SIMplyBee is out!!! SPREAD THE JOY! 🐝🐝🐝 Pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/S… Website: simplybee.info With Gregor Gorjanc, Laura Strachan, @JernejBubnic and @JanezPresern from HighlanderLab and Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije 1/3

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.

🐄Attention dairy cattle researchers! 📢Submit your papers on Rumen Microbiome&Metabolome to our special issue in Animals📝Co-edited by Dr. Miller and myself, we can't wait to showcase your innovative work! Open until 25Oct #dairycattle #animalsjournal 📚🐮mdpi.com/journal/animal…

⏰Save the date: on 04/04 at 3 PM (UK time, BST) we will have our next CGDG seminar with Martin Johnsson, from SLU, talking about "The big challenge for livestock genomics is to make sequence data pay". 💻 Come join us The Roslin Institute or online (📨 for access at [email protected]).

Cool paper!

Finally out!

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

⏰ The next CGDG seminar is on 25/04 at 3PM (BTS)! We will hear Håvard Tajet talking about "Norwegian Red Dairy Cattle Norwegian Red – Research and selection go hand in hand at Geno" 🐮🐂🧬 Come join us in person The Roslin Institute or online (📨 for access at [email protected]).

⏰The next CGDG seminar is on 27/06 at 3 PM (BST) with Karl Schmid (@[email protected]) giving a didactic talk on the application of deep learning in plant genetics and breeding. Come join us The Roslin Institute or online,📨 us for access at [email protected]

⏰🐝 Join us tomorrow at 3 PM (BST) for the next CGDG seminar with Jana Obsteter! She will share insights on Challenges and opportunities of insect breeding. 👇her SimplyBee publication. Join us The Roslin Institute or online. 📨 us for access at [email protected]. Let's buzz together🐝

New pre-print: “Plant breeding simulations with AlphaSimR” led by Jon Bančič and Philip greenspoon, @ChrisGaynor11, and Gregor Gorjanc. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A short thread with highlights.

New pre-print: "A framework for simulating GxE interaction using multiplicative models" by Jon Bančič, Gregor Gorjanc, and Daniel Tolhurst. researchsquare.com/article/rs-385…