Day

Time

Interbull Annual Meeting

Thursday, July 09

8:00 am to 12:00 pm

Interbull Technical Committee

1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Steering Committee

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Interbull Business Meeting

Friday, July 10

8:30 am to 10:00 am

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 1

10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 2

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 3

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 4

8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Interbull Dinner

Saturday, July 11

8:30 am to 10:00 am

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 5

10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 6

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Interbull Business Meeting

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Interbull Technical Committee

4:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Steering Committee

Joint Interbull/JAM session

Sunday, July 12

8:30 am to 12:00 pm

Milk spectral data—Cost-effective information to improve expensive and limited traits in dairy cattle breeding

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Use of genomics to improve limited and novel phenotypes in animal breeding

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.

Session

Time

Author

Scientific report title

Other authors

Country

Organization

Friday, July 10, 2015

Developments in genomic evaluation methods (1)
Chair:

08:30

J.R. O’Connell

Strategies to choose from millions of imputed sequence variants

P.M. VanRaden

USA

University of Maryland School of Medicine

08:50

Birgit Gredler

Intergenomics: Brown Swiss genotype data from 50K to sequence imputation

C. Baes, B. Bapst, F. Seefried, H. Signer-Hasler, C. Flury, D. Garrick, C. Stricker, and the Intergenomics Consortium

Switzerland

Qualitas AG

09:10

Raphael Mrode

Impact of the structure of the genomic matrix on accuracy of evaluations for imputed genotypes

M. Coffey

Great Britain

EGENES, SRUC

09:30

Ignacy Misztal

Efficient inversion of genomic relationship matrix by APY algorithm

B.O. Fragomeni, D.A.L. Lourenco, S. Tsuruta, Y. Masuda, I. Aguilar, A. Legarra, and T. J. Lawlor

USA

University of Georgia

Developments in genomic evaluation methods (2)
Chair:

10:30

Y. Masuda

Single-step evaluation in the US Holstein population with 570k genotyped animals

I. Misztal, S. Tsuruta, D. A. L. Lourenco, B. Fragomeni, A. Legarra, I. Aguilar, T. J. Lawlor

USA

University of Georgia

10:50

P. Croiseau

A new Marker-Assisted BLUP genomic evaluation for French dairy breeds

A. Baur, D. Jonas, C. Hoze, J. Promp, D. Boichard, S. Fritz, V. Ducrocq

France

INRA

11:10

Daniela Lourenco

Direct and indirect genomic evaluations in beef cattle

I. Misztal, S. Tsuruta, B. Fragomeni, I. Aguilar, Y. Masuda, D. Moser

USA

University of Georgia

11:30

Zengting Liu

Joint Estimation of Additive and Dominance Effects of Markers Using a Genomic Model with a Residual Polygenic Effect

H. Alkhoder, F. Reinhardt and R. Reents

Germany

VIT

Developments in national genetic / genomic evaluation methods (1) Chair:

13:30

Paul VanRaden

Genomic evaluations and breed composition for crossbred U.S. dairy cattle

T. Cooper

USA

USDA-AGIL

13:50

Francesco Tiezzi

Accounting for genotype by environment interaction in genomic predictions for US Holstein dairy cattle.

KL Parker-Gaddis, JS Clay, C Maltecca

USA

North Carolina State University

14:10

Vincent Ducrocq

Two approaches to account for G x E interactions for production traits in South African Holstein cattle

Cadet A. , Patry C. , van Wyk J.B., Pienaar L. Neser F.W.C.

France

INRA

14:30

K. Muuttoranta

Genetic parameters for female fertility in Nordic dairy cattle

M. Lidauer, A-M. Tyrisevä, E.A. Mäntysaari, J. Pösö, J-Å. Eriksson, U.S. Nielsen, G.P. Aamand

Finland

Natural Resources Institute Finland

14:50

J. Vandenplas

Innovative combination of all sources of information for production traits in Slovenian Brown Swiss

M. Špehar, K. Potočnik, N. Gengler, G. Gorjanc

Slovenia

University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty

15:10

K. V. Konstantinov

Implementation of Multiple traits Multi Lactation Random Regression Test Day Model for Production Traits in Australia

G. J. Nieuwhof and T. P. Hancock

Australia

ADHIS

Developments in national genetic / genomic evaluation methods (2) Chair:

16:00

P.G. Sullivan

De-regressed MACE versus domestic EBV in Canadian national genomic evaluations

J. Jamrozik, G.J. Kistemaker

Canada

CDN

16:20

G.R. Wiggans

Revisiting the a posteriori granddaughter design

J.I. Weller

USA

16:40

Daniel Abernethy

The development of new national breeding indices in Australia utilising direct farmer input

Dr Jennie Pryce, Ms Michelle Axford, Dr Gert Nieuwhof

Australia

ADHIS

17:00

C. Jaton

Genetic and genomic analysis of superovulatory response in Canadian Holsteins

A.Koeck, M. Sargolzaei, C. A. Price, F. S. Schenkel, F. Miglior

Canada

CGIL, University of Guelph

17:20

W.M. Stoop

Validation and implementation of new genomic traits in The Netherlands: lactose, urea, calf survival, ketosis, heifer fertility, and AMS traits.

C. Schrooten, I. Vermeer, G. de Jong

The Netherlands

CRV

17:40

Sandra Kipp

A new Holstein Haploytpe affecting calf survival

D. Segelke, S. Schierenbeck, F. Reinhardt, R Reents, C. Wurmser, H. Pausch, R. Fries, G. Thaller, J. Tetens, J. Pott, M. Piechotta, W. Grünberg

Germany

VIT

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Developments in national / international breeding objectives and structure Chair:

08:30

M.E. Tooker

Comparison of Domestic and Foreign Genotypes by Country and Continent

P.M. VanRaden, T. Cooper, and J. Dürr

USA

Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

08:50

Kakha Nadiradze

International Cooperation with GenesFlow (France) and Mapelhurst International (USA)

N. Phirosmanashvili

Georgia

Association for Farmers Rights Defense, AFRD

09:10

H. D. Norman

Recent Changes in Service Sire Conception Rate in United States

J.R. Wright, J. Dürr

USA

Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding

09:30

B.J. Van Doormaal

Pro$: A New Profit-Based Genetic Selection Index in Canada

L. Beavers, G.J. Kistemaker, & P.G. Sullivan

Canada

CDN

New traits / models in national genetic evaluations
Chair:

10:30

F. Malchiodi

Genetic analyses of hoof lesions in Canadian Holsteins using an alternative contemporary group

A. Koeck, N. Chapinal, M. Sargolzaei, A. Fleming, D. F. Kelton, F. S. Schenkel and F. Miglior

Canada

University of Guelph

10:50

J.B.C.H.M. van Kaam

Breeding value estimation for milk coagulation properties in the Italian Holstein Friesian bull population

M. Battagin, R. Finocchiaro, D. Pretto, M. Penasa, M. De Marchi, M. Cassandro

Italy

ANAFI

11:10

Hafedh Ben Zaabza

Genetic parameters for reproduction traits in Tunisian Holstein cows

A.Ben Gara, B.Rekik, H.Hammami, B. Jemmali, M.Ferchichi

Tunisia

School of Higher Education in Agriclture

11:30

Astrid Koeck

Development of genetic evaluations for metabolic disease traits for Canadian dairy cattle

J. Jamrozik, G. J. Kistemaker, F. S. Schenkel, R. K. Moore, D. M. Lefebvre, D. F. Kelton, and F. Miglior

Canada

CGIL, University of Guelph

11:50

B. Jemmali

Monitoring of genes enhancer of mastitis resistance in Tunisian dairy cows

A. Ben Gara, B. Rekik

Tunisia

School of Higher Education in Agriclture