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== 2018 Interbull Meeting ==
Date: 9 - 13 February 2018

'''All meetings from February 7^th^ til February 9^th^ will be held at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Auckland, '''

'''all other meetings from February 10^th^ onward will be held in the Aotea Centre, Auckland.'''



=== General Program - Interbull Open and Business Meetings ===
||<tablewidth="821px" tableheight="302px"#e099ae width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">'''Day''' ||<#e099ae width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">'''Time ''' ||<#e099ae width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">'''Interbull Annual Meeting''' ||
||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">'''Saturday 10 February''' ||<width="217px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">13:30 to 15:30 ||<width="246px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">Business Meeting 1 ||
||<#e099ae class="mceSelected" style="text-align:center" |2> ||<#e099ae class="mceSelected" style="text-align:center" |2>16:00 - 17:30 Two parallel sessions ||<#e099ae class="mceSelected">Interbull Open 1: Availability and use of genetic and genomic information in dairy and beef herd management ||
||<#e099ae width="246px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">Interbull Open 2: R&D in (inter)national evaluations: Calving traits and fertility in dairy and beef cattle. ||
||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">'''Sunday 11 February''' ||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">08:30 to 10:30 ||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">Interbull Open 3: R&D in (inter)national evaluations: Implementation of new traits in dairy and beef cattle. ||
||<#e099ae class="mceSelected">'''  ''' ||<#e099ae class="mceSelected">11:00 to 12:30 ||<#e099ae class="mceSelected">Interbull Open 4 - Free Communication ||
||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top"> ||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">13:30 - 15:30 ||<width="197px" class="mceSelected" style="vertical-align:top">Interbull Open 5: Addressing the challenges of genomic selection in international genetic and genomic evaluations in dairy and beef cattle. ||
||<#e099ae class="mceSelected"> ||<#e099ae class="mceSelected">16:00 - 17:30 ||<#e099ae class="mceSelected">Business Meeting 2 ||


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== Scientific Program - Interbull Open Session ==
Download the scientific progarm for the Interbull Open Meeting as   [[attachment:Scientific Program - Interbull Open Session.pdf|pdf|&do=get]]
||<tablewidth="1140px" tableheight="1526px"> ||'''Session''' ||'''Time''' ||'''Author''' ||'''Scientific Report Title''' ||'''Organization''' ||
||<style="text-align:center" |12>'''Saturday 10 February''' <<BR>> <<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>> '''Saturday 10 February''' ||<style="text-align:center" |6>'''Interbull Open 1''': Availability and use of genetic and genomic information in dairy and beef herd management. <<BR>><<BR>> Chair:   Andrew Cromie and Matthew Shaffer ||16:00 ||E. Nicolazzi ||Genomics in the U.S. Dairy Industry: current and future challenges ||CDCB ||
||16:15 ||M. Stephen ||Developing metrics to rank individual herds according to data quality ||DairyNZ ||
||16:30 ||A. Sunstrum ||A New Data Paradigm:  Improving the well-being, profitability, and sustainability of beef and dairy herds using an on-farm automated continuous novel phenotyping and informed genomics platform ||Growsafe Systems Ltd. ||
||16:45 ||O. Powell ||Can genomics enable genetic evaluation with phenotypes recorded on small-holder farms? ||University Of Edinburgh/Roslin Institute ||
||17:00 ||E.C. Ooi ||Use of the Daughter Fertility Australian Breeding Value to improve herd reproductive performance of dairy cows in Northern Victoria. A retrospective cohort study to examine the efficacy of the daughter fertility ABV, as well as to explore the attitudes and intentions of dairy farmers toward selection of high daughter fertility ABV sires. ||University Of Melbourne ||
||17:15 ||J. Pryce ||Using genomics to improve dairy heifer selection decisions ||Agriculture Victoria ||
||<#cc9900 style="text-align:center" |6>'''Interbull Open 2''': R&D in (inter)national evaluations: Calving traits and fertility in dairy and beef cattle. '''<<BR>> <<BR>>Parallel Session''' <<BR>> <<BR>> Chair: Haifa Benhajali ||<#cc9900>16:00 ||<#cc9900>R. Lefebvre ||<#cc9900>Genetic evaluation for stillbirth in French beef cattle breeds ||<#cc9900>Inra ||
||<#cc9900>16:15 ||<#cc9900>F. Pearston ||<#cc9900>Calf survival evaluations for the UK Dairy industry ||<#cc9900>Agriculture And Horticulture Development Board ||
||<#cc9900>16:30 ||<#cc9900>T. Pabiou ||<#cc9900>Using direct and maternal Interbeef information to increase genetic gains in Irish beef ||<#cc9900>Irish Cattle Breeding Federation ||
||<#cc9900>16:45 ||<#cc9900>K. Stachowicz ||<#cc9900>Changes to the genetic evaluation of fertility in Irish dairy cattle ||<#cc9900>!AbacusBio Ltd ||
||<#cc9900>17:00 ||<#cc9900>A. Liu ||<#cc9900>Genotype by environment interaction for female fertility traits under conventional and organic production systems in Danish Holsteins ||<#cc9900>Aarhus University ||
||<#cc9900>17:15 ||<#cc9900>S. Suyadi ||<#cc9900>Evaluation of reproductive performance and fertility index of Local Ongole x Limousin or Simental Crossbred Cattle in Jombang Regency-East Java Province, Indonesia ||<#cc9900>Faculty Of Animal Science ||
||<style="text-align:center" |22>'''Sunday 11 February''' <<BR>> <<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>> <<BR>> <<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>> ''' '''<<BR>> <<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>><<BR>>'''Sunday 11 February''' ||<#8fbc8f style="text-align:center" |8>'''Interbull Open 3''': R&D in (inter)national evaluations: Implementation of new traits in dairy and beef cattle. <<BR>> <<BR>> Chair:  Gert Pedersen Aamand ||<#8fbc8f>08:30 ||<#8fbc8f>F. Malchiodi ||<#8fbc8f>Implementation of genomic evaluation for digital dermatitis in Canada ||<#8fbc8f>CGIL - University Of Guelph ||
||<#8fbc8f>08:45 ||<#8fbc8f>N. Chafeddine ||<#8fbc8f>Genetic and genomic evaluation of claw health traits in Spanish dairy cattle ||<#8fbc8f>Complutense University Of Madrid ||
||<#8fbc8f>09:00 ||<#8fbc8f>H. Hamann ||<#8fbc8f>Estimation of the heritability of a newly developed ketosis risk indicator and the genetic correlations to other traits in three German cattle breeds ||<#8fbc8f>State Office For Geo-information And Rural Development ||
||<#8fbc8f>09:15 ||<#8fbc8f>M. Price ||<#8fbc8f>Genetic parameters of immune response estimated using two genetically divergent groups of Holstein-Friesian dairy heifers ||<#8fbc8f>Dairynz ||
||<#8fbc8f>09:30 ||<#8fbc8f>E. Rius Vilarrasa ||<#8fbc8f>Improved genetic evaluation of health traits using metabolic biomarkers in Nordic dairy cattle ||<#8fbc8f>Växa Svergie ||
||<#8fbc8f>09:45 ||<#8fbc8f>J. Vosman ||<#8fbc8f>Genetic parameters for health traits using farmer recorded data in the Netherlands ||<#8fbc8f>CRV ||
||<#8fbc8f>10:00 ||<#8fbc8f>R. Finocchiaro ||<#8fbc8f>Alternative use of Somatic Cells Counts in genetic selection for mastitis resistance: a new breeding value for Italian Holstein breed ||<#8fbc8f>ANAFI ||
||<#8fbc8f>10:15 ||<#8fbc8f>L. De Haer ||<#8fbc8f>Genetic relation between antibody response and faecal shedding of MAP in dairy cattle ||<#8fbc8f>Crv ||
||<style="text-align:center" |6>'''Interbull Open 4''': Free Communication <<BR>> <<BR>> Chair: Hossein Jorjani ||11:00 ||M. Axford ||Genomic breeding values for heat tolerance in dairy cattle ||Agriculture Victoria ||
||11:15 ||Y. Atagi ||Effect of heat stress on production traits of Holstein cattle in Japan: parameter estimation using test day records of first parity and genome wide markers ||Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Lab of Biometry and Bioinformatics, University of Tokyo ||
||11:30 ||Y. Wang ||Genetic analysis of skinfold thickness and its association with body condition score, and milk production traits in Chinese Holstein population ||China Agricultural University ||
||11:45 ||A. Mukherjee/S. Mumtaz ||Use of single nucleotide polymorphisms in PPP1R11 genes associated with daughter pregnancy rate for prediction of genetic merit for reproduction in Karan Fries bull ||Indian Council Of Agricultural Research ||
||12:00 ||R. Torres Junior ||Is a 35-day feeding test with automatic daily weighting good enough for evaluating beef cattle for feed efficiency traits? ||Embrapa Beef Cattle ||
||12:15 ||M. Camara ||A novel, comprehensive genetic and management initiative to reduce the environmental impact of New Zealand dairy cattle. ||Dairynz - Nzael ||
||<#00ff99 style="text-align:center" |8>'''Interbull Open 5''': Addressing the challenges of genomic selection in international genetic and genomic evaluations in dairy and beef cattle. <<BR>> <<BR>> Chair: Vincent Ducrocq ||<#00ff99>13:30 ||<#00ff99>G. Wiggans ||<#00ff99>Discovering and validating relationships among genotyped animals ||<#00ff99>Council on Dairy Cattle Breding ||
||<#00ff99>13:45 ||<#00ff99>M. Calus ||<#00ff99>Efficient computation of base generation allele frequencies ||<#00ff99>Wageningen University & Research Animal Breeding and Genomics ||
||<#00ff99>14:00 ||<#00ff99>D. Lourenco ||<#00ff99>Tuning indirect predictions based on SNP effects from single-step GBLUP ||<#00ff99>University of Georgia ||
||<#00ff99>14:15 ||<#00ff99>P. VanRaden ||<#00ff99>Validating Genomic Reliabilities and Gains from Phenotypic Updates ||<#00ff99>Usda-agil ||
||<#00ff99>14:30 ||<#00ff99>B. Harris ||<#00ff99>Genomic reliability algorithm for a single step marker model ||<#00ff99>LIC ||
||<#00ff99>14:45 ||<#00ff99>J. Vandenplas ||<#00ff99>Integration of foreign estimates of SNP effects into a domestic SNPBLUP ||<#00ff99>Wageningen University & Research ||
||<#00ff99>15:00 ||<#00ff99>E. Mäntysaari ||<#00ff99>Solutions for the fixed effects, yield deviations and daughter yield deviations from a data subject to genomic selection ||<#00ff99>Natural Resources Institute (luke) ||
||<#00ff99>15:15 ||<#00ff99>E. Venot ||<#00ff99>Assessment of Single Step benefits for on-farm French National Beef genetic evaluations of birth and weaning traits ||<#00ff99>Inra ||