2017 Interbull Meeting

Date: August 25 - 28, 2017

General Program - Interbull Activities

Day

Time

Location

Interbull Annual Meeting

Friday 25 August

08:00 to 12:30

Interbull Technical Committee (+ SAC) Meeting 1

13:00 to 19:00

Interbull Steering Committee (+ SAC) Meeting 1

Saturday, 26 August

08:30 to 12:30

Interbull Open Meetings (1+2)

13:30 to 15:30

Interbull Business Meeting 1

16:00 to 18:00

Interbull Open Meetings (3)

19:00 to 22:00

Interbull Dinner

Sunday, 27 August

08:30 to 12:00

Interbull Open Meetings (4+5)

13:00 to 15:00

Interbull Business Meeting 2

15:15 to 17:00

Interbull Technical Committee (+ SAC) Meeting 2

17:00 to 19:00

Interbull Steering Committee Meeting 2

Monday, 28 August

08:30 to 12:30

Joint Session with EAAP Genetics or Cattle Commission

EAAP

14:00 to 18:00

Joint Session with EAAP Genetics or Cattle Commission

EAAP

Technical and Steering Committee Meetings are administrative meetings restricted to the respective members, and include joint sessions with Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) where indicated; 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.


Scientific Program - Interbull Open Session

Session

Time

Author

Scientific report title

Other authors

Country

Organization

Saturday, August 26

Integration of new phenotypes/initiatives into (inter)national genomic evaluations (1)

Chair:TBA

08:30

N. Friggens

Genomic management tools to optimize resilience and efficiency

08:45

E. Groenveld

Large scale SNP data management and integration in breeding programs

09:00

W.M. Stoop

Genomics in small populations: the MRY breed

09:15

H. Alkholder

The impact of adding cows to the EuroGenomics bull reference population on genomic prediction

09:30

H. Jorjani

InterGenomics for Holstein populations

09:45

General Discussion

Integration of new phenotypes/initiatives into (inter)national genomic evaluations (2)

Chair:TBA

10:30

A. Kudinov

Upgrading dairy cattle evaluation sustem in Russian Federation

10:45

R. Bonifazi

Preliminary study of VCE for Limousine and Charolais breeds trough Mix99 software

11:00

A. Govignon-Gion

Genetic evaluation of calving ease for French beef cattle breeds with dairy maternal support

11:15

H. Täubert

A new model for the genetic evaluation for longevity in Germany

11:30

P. Amer

Options for incorporating feed intake data into national selection indexes

11:45

L. Chavinskaia

International order of cattle breeding. Interbull as a space of commensuration

12:00

Z. Liu (presented by H. Jorjani)

SNP-MACE

12:15

General Discussion

Tuesday, October 25

Model choice & Validation of GES in the genomic era (3)

Chair:TBA

16:00

I. Misztal

Studies on inflation of GEBV in single-step GBLUP for type

16:30

B. Harris

Science Leader

16:45

C. Edel

Do biased gene-content estimates inflate genomic predictions with single-step GBLUP?

17:00

S. Rensing

Cow reference population - benefit for genomic evaluation system and farmers

17:15

R. Bonifazi

Comparison of genomic reliability in national genomic evaluation of dairy cattle populations

17:30

R. Bonifazi (presented by H. Jorjani)

Speed up rG estimation

17:45

General Discussion

Impact of genomic pre-selection on N-GES and I-GES (MACE) + Model choice & validation of GES in the genomic era (4)

Chair: TBA

08:30

I. J. P. Vermeer

Bias in proofs of non-random used sire

08:45

M. Koivula

Validation of genomic and genetic evaluations in 305d production traits of nordic Holstein cattle

09:00

Z. Liu

Approximating genomic reliabilities for national genomic evaluation

09:30

General Discussion

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

ZuchtData

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.

France

Institut de l'Elevage

14:30

T. Pabiou

Love meat tender

A. Cromie, D. Berry, R. Evans

Ireland

ICBF

14:45

E. Carlén

Youngstock survival in Nordic cattle genetic evaluation

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

Sweden

Nordic cattle genetic evaluation

15:00

P. Van Raden

Value of selecting for cow and calf livability

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

USA

USDA-AGIL