[Statlist] Course 'Genomic Selection in Livestock' in Davos - Switzerland & Wageningen - The Netherlands

[Christian Stricker]

The Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre from Wageningen UR (with Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences - WIAS), and agn Genetics, Switzerland (formerly applied genetics network) organize thefollowing course in Wageningen in the Netherlands and in Davos in Switzerland:
 
Genomic Selection in Livestock
 
Teachers: Rohan Fernando & Dorian Garrick, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA
 
Course 1: June 20 - 24, 2011 in Davos, Switzerland
 
Course 2: June 27 - July 1, 2011 in Wageningen, The Netherlands
 
Aim of the course
The aim of the course is to provide to post graduate students and professionals working in animal breeding the basic theory in genetic evaluation using whole genome data and using it in practical data analyses.
 
Course outline
Bayesian Methods (Gibbs-, Metropolis-Hastings Sampler), Models to predict SNP effects and map QTL (BayesA, B, C, G-BLUP, Lasso, PLS), Interpretation of SNP Effect estimates, Validation of results, Estimating SNP effects using high and low density SNP panels, imputation. For an example of a previous course of Rohan Fernando and Dorian Garrick, seehttp://www.ans.iastate.edu/stud/courses/short/
 
Credit points: Wageningen 1.5 ECTS (through WIAS), Davos: Confirmation of attendance. Credit points can be obtained through your local post graduate programme.
 
Costs
Wageningen: 500 Euro for academia and 1000 Euro for others.
Davos: 800 CHF for academia and 1300 CHF for others.
 
The price includes lunch. Dinner and accommodation are not included. After registration you will receive an invoice. Participants are only accepted after receiving their registration fee. If there are not enough people registering for one of the courses, we reserve the right to cancel one or both of them.
 
Registration and more information:
To register for course 1 in Davos, please send an email to stricker using genetics-network.ch.
To register for course 2 in Wageningen, please send an email to mario.calus using wur.nl.
For each course the maximum number of participants is 50. Registration starts  immediately and ends at March 31, 2011.
 
 
Best regards,
Chris Stricker & Mario Calus
 
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Chris Stricker, Ph.D., applied genetics network
Börtjistrasse 8b, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
+41-81-413-1442, stricker using genetics-network.ch
skype: chris.stricker, ichat: chrisstricker using mac.com
 
Dr. ir. M.P.L. (Mario) Calus
Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre
Wageningen UR Livestock Research
Postbus 65
8200 AB Lelystad
T: +31-(0)320-238265
F: +31-(0)320-293591
Mailto: mario.calus using wur.nl
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Chris Stricker, Ph.D., applied genetics network
Börtjistrasse 8b, 7260 Davos, Switzerland
+41-81-413-1442, stricker using genetics-network.ch
skype: chris.stricker, ichat: chrisstricker using mac.com