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2018 Interbull Meeting

 

The 2018 Interbull Annual Meeting will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 9-12 February 2018 in conjunction with the  41st ICAR biennial session and the 11th WCGALP meeting.

All meetings from February 7th til February 9th will be held at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Auckland, all other meetings from February 10th onward will be held in the Aotea Centre, Auckland.

 

 

Link to the congress App

 

 

Participation to the 2018 Interbull Annual Meeting requires a separate paid registration fee. Information on how to register, costs and hotel booking are all available through the main events pages http://www.icar2018.nz/icar18 and http://www.wcgalp.com/wcgalp18

 

 Important dates

  • Close of submissions: 4 December 2017
  • Acceptance of your paper will be at the latest 23 December 2017
  • Early bird registrations closes on: 30 November 2017
  • Deadline for full paper submission to Interbull Bulletin: 28 February, 2018.
    • The related paper should be written according to the InterBulletin Guidelines which are available here

 

This year's Interbull Open Meetings will include scientific reports related to the following themes in both beef and dairy cattle:

 

1. Availability and use of genetic and genomic information in dairy and beef herd management

 

The use of genomic information in genetic evaluation has brought about revolutionary change in cattle selection. Genetic and genomic informationis also changing how dairy and beef producers make everyday management, selection and breeding decisions. Papers are invited to highlight the opportunities and needs for genetic and genomic information in cattle farms.

 

2. Addressing the challenges of genomic selection in international genetic and genomic evaluations in dairy and beef cattle.

During the 2017 Interbull Meetings in Ljubljana and Tallinn, “Possible sources of bias introduced through genomic pre-selection”, and the “Impact of genomic pre-selection on N-GES and I-GES (MACE)” were addressed. During the current session we like to move from the ‘technical’ issue to the “application of solutions”, and provide the opportunity to share your experiences, activities and plans for addressing these challenges in your national evaluation systems.

3. Research and development in national and international evaluations - novel methods and new traits in dairy and beef cattle

For this session papers are invited that will provide an update on ongoing R&D in national and international evaluations in dairy and/or beef cattle for:

1 - novel methods and/or

2 - novel traits.

 

General Program - Interbull Activities

(The program may be subject to change)

Day

Time

Interbull Annual Meeting

Friday 9 February

10:30 to 12:30

Interbull Technical Committee Meeting 1 (Including SAC)

 

13:30 to 15:30

Interbull Technical Committee Meeting 1

 

16:00 to 18:30

Steering Committee Meeting 1

Saturday 10 February


 

08:30 to 10:30

Steering Committee Meeting 2

 

11:00 to 12:30

Steering Committee Meeting 2 (including SAC)

 

13:30 to 15:30

Interbull Business Meeting 1

  

16:00 to 17:30

Two parallel sessions

 

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 1 Availability and use of genetic and genomic information in dairy and beef herd management.

   

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 2: R&D in (inter)national evaluations: Calving traits and fertility in dairy and beef cattle.

 

18:30 to 23:00

ICAR/WCGALP/Interbull Gala Dinner

Sunday 11 February

08:30 to 10:30

Interbull Open 3: R&D in (inter)national evaluations: Implementation of new traits in dairy and beef cattle.I

 

11:00 to 12:30

Interbull Open 4: Free Communication

 

13:30 to 15:30

Interbull Open 5: Addressing the challenges of genomic selection in international genetic and genomic evaluations in dairy and beef cattle.

 

16:00 to 17:30

Interbull Business Meeting 2

 

18:00 to 20:00

ICAR/WCGALP/Interbull Welcome Function

Monday 12 February

07:30 to 18:30

Posters

 

08:30 to 09:30

Plenary session

 

09:30 to 10:30

Morning Tea

 

10:00 to 12:00

Joint WCGALP/INTERBULL Methods and Tools - Models and Computing Strategies

 

12:00 to 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 to 15:30

Joint WCGALP/INTERBULL Methods and Tools - Software

 

15:00 to 16:00

Afternoon Tea

 

16:00 to 18:00

Joint WCGALP/INTERBULL Methods and Tools - Prediction

 

18:00 to 20:00

Wine and Cheese Reception

Tuesday 13 February

08:30 to 10:30

Interbull Technical Committee Meeting 2

 

10:30 to 12:30

Interbull Technical Committee Meeting 2 (Including SAC)

 

13:30 to 15:30

Joint WCGALP/INTERBULL Methods and Tools - GWAS

 

16:00 to 18:00

Joint WCGALP/INTERBULL Methods and Tools - Prediction

 

16:00 to 18:30

Steering Committee Meeting 3

Technical and Steering Committees are administrative meetings restricted to the respective members; Business Meetings are public and are dedicated to discuss operational and political decisions of the Steering Committee with participating organizations; Open Meetings are dedicated to scientific reports.

Interbull Centre - Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, SLU - Box 7023, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden - interbull@slu.se

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