Day

Time

Room

Interbull Annual Meeting

Sunday, October 23^rd

09:00 am to 04:00 pm

Interbull Technical Committee

Tiznao

04:30 pm to 07:00 pm

Steering Committee

Tiznao

Monday, October 24^th

09:00 am to 12:30 am

Steering Committee

Tiznao

01:30 am to 03:30 pm

Interbull Business Meeting

Calbuco

04:00 pm to 06:30 pm

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 1

Calbuco

Tuesday, October 25^th

08:30 am to 10:30 am

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 2

Calbuco

11:00 am to 03:20 pm

Interbull Open Meeting — Session 3

Calbuco

03:50 pm to 05:30 pm

Interbull Business Meeting

Calbuco

06:00 pm to 22:30 pm

ICAR Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

Transfer to Teatro del Lago, Frutillar

Wednesday, October 26^th

08:00 am to 11:00 pm

Interbull Technical Committee

Tiznao

04:00 pm to 07:00 pm

Steering Committee

Tiznao

ICAR Technical Sessions

Thursday, October 27^th

08:30 am to 10:30 am

Joint ICAR/INTERBULL session “How can you use genomics?”

Calbuco

11:00 am to 06:30 pm

Technical Tours 1-5

08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

ICAR Gala Dinner

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

Monday, October 24

Methods and practical experiences for parentage analysis (1)

Chair:Marco Winters

16:00

C. Megneaud

Using SNP analysis results to certify parentage: French organization

E. Jullen, H. Ledos, L. Marguin, S. Mattalia

France

Institut de l’Elevage

16:15

V. Boerner

A fast and accurate algorithm for SNP based parentage verification

V. Boerner

Australia

Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, University of New England

16:30

J. Obsteter

Parentage verification using imputed microsatellite and SNP data in Slovenian Brown-Swiss population

Betka Logar, Andreja Opara, Janez Jenko

Slovenia

The Agricultural Institute of Slovenia

16:45

B. Van Doormaal

Parentage Analysis Services for Dairy Cattle in Canada

G.J. Kistemaker and J. Johnston

Canada

CDN

New developments in genomic methodologies and evaluations (2)

Chair:Marco Winters

17:00

J. O'Connell

Selection of sequence variants to improve genomic predictions

P. VanRaden, M. Tooker, D. Bickhart

USA

University of Marland School of Medicine

17:15

F. R. Seefried

Genomic prediction using haplotypes in Brown Swiss

M. Frischknecht, B. Bapst, C. Flury, H. Signer-Hasler, D. Garrick, C. Stricker, Intergenomics Consortium, R. Fries, I. Russ, J. Sölkner, A. Bieber, A. Bagnato, B. Gredler

Switzerland

Qualitas AG

17:30

Z. Liu

Accuracy and bias of genomic prediction for second generation candidates

H. Alkhoder, F. Reinhardt and R. Reents

Germany

VIT Germany

17:45

J.E.Pryce

Increased reliabilities of genomic breeding values following large-scale genotyping of females with excellent phenotypes

P. Douglas, C.M. Reich, A.J. Chamberlain, B.A. Mason, C.P. Prowse-Wilkins, G. Nieuwhof, T. Hancock, D. Abernethy, B.J. Hayes

Australia

ADHIS

18:00

R.D. Evans

Genomic selection for Irish beef cattle: Challenges with multiple breeds, multi-trait evaluations, large scale genotyping and choice of methodology.

Cromie A., McCarthy J., Kearney J.F., McClure, M and Berry D.P.

Ireland

Tuesday, October 25

New developments in genomic methodologies and evaluations (2 continue)

Chair:Enrico Santus

08:30

R. Mrode

Application of various models for the genomic evaluation for bovine tuberculosis resistance in dairy cattle

Georgios Banos, Marco Winters and Mike Coffey

Great Britain

SRUC

08:45

A. Barbat-Leterrier

GénoSanté: Improving productive health of dairy cows by genomic selection and management: A first step with ketosis

Leclerc H. , Philippe M. , Fritz S. , Davière J-B , Manciaux L. , Guillaume F. , De Bretagne T. , Boichard D., Mattalia S

France

INRA

09:00

K. Matilainen

Managing genetic groups in single-step genomic evaluations applied on female fertility traits in Nordic Red Dairy cattle

M. Koivula, I. Strandén, G. Pedersen Aamand, E. A. Mäntysaari

Finland

Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

09:15

T. Lawlor

Reliabilities in single-step evaluation for udder depth in US Holsteins with different numbers of genotyped animals and external information from Interbull evaluations

S. Tsuruta, D. A. L. Lourenco, B. O. Fragomeni, I. Aguilar, I. Misztal

USA

University of Georgia

09:30

N. Gengler

Genomic evaluation of MIR predicted CH4 exploiting correlations to MACE evaluated traits

H Soyeurt, J Vandenplas, S. Vanderick and F.G. Colinet

Belgium

ULg-GxABT

09:45

D. Vicario

Hybrid one-step genomic evaluation system in Italian Simmental

G. Jansen, R.Finocchiaro, A. Rossoni, L Degano

Italy

ANAPRI

10:00

P. G. Sullivan

Using a parameter space to improve GMACE evaluations and reliabilities

10:15

H. Benhajali

Robust MACE

L. Zengting, P. Sullivan, P, VanRaden, G. P. Aamand, E. Mäntyssaari, G. DeJong, V. Ducroq

11:00

G. De Jong

Genetic evaluation for feed intake in the Netherlands and Flanders, impact on efficiency and responses

R. van der Linde, Y. de Haas, R. F. Veerkamp

Netherlands

CRV

11:15

M. Olayemi

PROGRESS TOWARD INCORPORATING RESIDUAL FEED INTAKE INTO THE NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL BREEDING OBJECTIVE FOR DAIRY CATTLE: GENETIC PARAMETERS FOR RESIDUAL FEED INTAKE IN HALF-SIB 6-9 MONTH OLD FRIESIAN BULLS AND HEIFERS

M. Camara, K. Macdonald, S. Meier, B. Dow, J. Bryant

New Zealand

DairyNZ

11:30

J. Jamrozik

Genetic evaluation for resistance to metabolic diseases in Canadian dairy breeds

G.J. Kistemaker, B.J. Van Doormaal, A. Fleming, A. Koeck, F. Miglior

Canada

CDN

11:45

J. Vosman

Genetic correlations for claw health traits between Nordic countries and the Netherlands

P. Vessies, G. de Jong, G. Pedersen Aamand, U. Sander Nielsen, E. Carlén

The Netherlands

CRV

12:00

A. Brown

Lameness evaluations for the UK dairy industry

F. Pearston, R. Mrode, K. Kaseja, M. Winters

United Kingdom

AHDB

Genetic evaluation of new phenotypes (4)

Chair: Sophie Mattalia

14:00

A. Koeck

Genetic parameters for body weight, body condition score and lameness in Austrian dairy cows

B. Fuerst-Waltl, F. Steininger, C. Egger-Danner

Austria

14:15

J. Promp

Genetic evaluation of carcass traits in dairy cattle in France

Croué I., Vinet A., Launay A., Saintilan R., Fouilloux MN, Venot E., Govignon-Gion A., Ducrocq V. and Mattalia S.

14:30

T. Pabiou

Love meat tender

A. Cromie, D. Berry, R. Evans

14:45

E. Carlén

Youngstock survival in Nordic cattle genetic evaluation

J. Pedersen, J. Pösö, J.Å. Eriksson, U. Sander Nielsen, G. Pedersen Aamand

15:00

P. Van Raden

Value of selecting for cow and calf livability

J.R. Wright, M.E. Tooker, and H.D. Norman