Technical committee

The objective of the Interbull technical committee is to identify and review technical issues that may be essential for providing a high quality service to countries participating in the international genetic evaluations. This objective is achieved via the consideration of new or improved methods that increase the efficiency and accuracy of the evaluation service, while safeguarding the transparency of the services and its acceptability by Interbull members and customers.

The members of the Interbull Technical Committee (ITC) is listed in the table below.

The objective and mandate of the Interbull technical committee can be found in the Rules of Procedures for Interbull Committees.

Name	Contact
Gerben de Jong (Chair)	CRV u.a. PO Box 454 6800 AL Arnhem The Netherlands
Valentina Palucci	Interbull Centre P.O. Box 7023 SE-750 07 Uppsala Sweden
Paul VanRaden	USDA - ARS Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory Building 5, BARC-West Beltsville, Maryland 20705 USA
Zengting Liu	VIT Heinrich-Schröder-weg 1 D-27283 Verden Germany
Raphael Mrode	Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) Peter Wilson Building King's Buildings W mains RD, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG United Kingdom
Peter Sullivan	Lactanet Canada 660 Speedvale Avenue West, Suite 102 Guelph, Ontario, N1K 1E5 Canada
Andres Legarra	Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding 4201 Northview Dr. One Town Centre, Bowie, MD 20716 USA
Jan-Thjis Van Kaam	ANAFIBJ Via Bergamo, 292 26100 Cremona Italy
Iola Croue	Geneval 3 rue du Petit Robinson, 78350 Jouy en Josas, France
Gao Hongding	Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) 31600 Jokioinen, Finland

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Executive Summary 3-2024 now available!
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Interbull Bulletin #60 published
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2024-09-02
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