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The theme of the first day is 'Animals of the Future', with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biodiversity and Climate Change. The theme of the second day is ‘Breeding all over the world', and this day will focus on the role of different ABG alumni working all over the world. 

Thursday 17 October

14.30-15.20

Artificial Intelligence in animal breeding

Claudia Kamphuis

Deep learning – an alternative for genomic prediction?

Torsten Pook

Fish phenotyping

Yuuko Xue and John Bastiaansen

Keeping an Eye on Locomotion and Behavior using Computer Vision

Marjaneh Taghavi

The implications of AI for education and science

Henk Bovenhuis

 

16.00-17.45

Biodiversity and climate change

Sipke-Joost Hiemstra

Using behavior as potential indicator for heat stress and breeding for improved heat tolerance in chickens

Malou van der Sluis

Evaluating the effects of heat stress on Dutch dairy cattle

Jeremie Vanderplas

Reducing methane emissions of dairy cows by breeding

Anouk van Breukelen

How to disentangle adaption of traditional cattle breeds in the world using molecular tools

Richard Crooijmans

Sharks and Breeding? Applying Techniques from ABG for Wildlife Conservation

Gibbs Kuguru

Sustainable horse breeding

Marije Steensma

CGN genebank for diversity

Mira Schoon en Rensco Hogers

 

Friday 18 October

09.15-10.45

ABG alumni working all over the world

Breeding Vegetables Beyond Borders

Tessa Tichelaar-Brinker, Benan Gulzari (Rijk Zwaan)

Egg came first! Take care of the egg! How do we do this at PBS - Poland?

Maria Siwek-Gapínska (Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology)

Plant Breeding at Limagrain: Then, Now & the Future

Biaty Raymond (Limagrain)

Breeding dual-purpose chickens for African environments

Naomi Duivensteijn (Hendrix Genetics)

Mining genomes of African and Portuguese local breeds to study host/pathogen adaption

Andreia de Jesus Amaral (University of Évora)

Better cows, Better life, around the world

Jaap Veldhuisen (CRV)

A new genotyping method in animals breeding: Genotyping by targeted sequencing

Siyuan Xing (MolBreeding Biotechnology Co., Ltd)

it's all about the people Nonja Remijn (SZH - Stichting Zeldzame Huisdierrassen)

 

 

 

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