Last week Rotterdam hosted the #Eurovision Song Contest! What research will you present at #WCGALP2022 that is worth “douze points"?

Our review on genomic selection for crossbred performance is out! Most important conclusions? Information on the purebred-crossbred correlation is key, and genotyping crossbreds that are phenotyped is a good idea. NWO-domein TTW (inactief) Breed4Food #wur_abg academic.oup.com/jas/article/99…

Abstract submission for #WCGALP2022 is open!

Wim Daniëls

[Drumroll 🥁] Last but certainly not least, keynote speaker number five: dr. Mario Calus (Mario Calus)! Dr. Calus is an Associate Professor at Wageningen U&R, and a leading expert on genomic prediction (bit.ly/2ZUAAMK). Join us at #WCGALP2022 if you don’t want to miss his talk!

On March 16, the alliance TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht (EWUU) will start with the 'Dutch Dairy Student Challenge (DDSC)', a challenge based course for students that want to contribute to the dairy industry of tomorrow! Click the link and watch the video for more information. ewuu.nl/en/education/c…

A very impressive talk by Pascal Duenk giving us robust methods to predict Rpc using only purebred genotypes & phenotypes! 🔮🧙‍♂️👏 WUR Livestock Breed4Food

Today the course Animal Breeding and Genetics (ABG20306) kicked off with the first lecture in the Aurora building by Pascal Duenk. WUR Animal Sciences #wur_abg

Our latest article shows that you can predict the impact of genotype by genotype interactions on the purebred-crossbred genetic correlation, without using crossbred data. Check it out here: rdcu.be/c3pbc #wur_abg NWO-domein TTW (inactief) Breed4Food

New blogpost! How to write a thesis #abstract. thesis-lab.com/how-to-write-a…

My J-factor paper was published in GSE! A big thanks to Mario Calus, Vandenplas Jérémie, Pascal Duenk #wur_abg Validation with single-step SNPBLUP shows that evaluations can continue using a single mean of genotyped individuals, even with multiple breeds. doi.org/10.1186/s12711…

Want to improve #coherence and flow in your writing? Check out this blog post: thesis-lab.com/coherence-in-w…

If anyone has a gala dinner ticket for Lyon EAAP they're not using, let me know! #fomo #eaap2023

"We need to move away from simple but false dichotomies, as if we have to choose we have to be on one side or the other." Great talk from Ken Giller at the opening of the academic year of Wageningen U&R youtube.com/watch?v=f2V9Sw…

Interested in the purebred-crossbred genetic correlation in poultry? Check out our latest review paper in Animal Journal. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Pascal Duenk Yvonne Wientjes #JoasBos #wur_abg WUR Animal Sciences Breed4Food

#wur_abg strategic day with all of us. Topics of 100 PhD thesis over the past 7 years. Nice divers contribution to many relevant topics!

For teaching purposes, I have created two R Shiny apps to replace Excel Tools: 1) Estimating breeding values using BLUP, 2) Single trait selection index. I really enjoyed making these apps. Let me know what you think! #wur_abg thesis-lab.com/online-tool-fo… thesis-lab.com/selection-inde…

The Animal Breeding and Genetics course of Wageningen U&R will start next week. 📖 I created a new tool for this course: Multi-trait Selection Index. If you have any cool ideas or suggestions, let me know!💡 #wur_abg thesis-lab.com/breeding-tools…