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2017 Interbull Meeting
August 25 - 28, 2017 Tallinn, Estonia
General Program - Interbull Activities
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 | Interbull Annual Meeting | 
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| Friday 25 August | 08:00 to 12:30 | Interbull Technical Committee (+ SAC) Meeting 1 | 
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 | 13:00 to 19:00 | Interbull Steering Committee (+ SAC) Meeting 1 | 
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| Saturday, 26 August | 08:30 to 12:30 | Interbull Open Meetings (1+2) | 
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 | 13:30 to 15:30 | Interbull Business Meeting 1 | 
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 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Interbull Open Meetings (3) | 
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 | 19:00 to 22:00 | Interbull Dinner | 
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| Sunday, 27 August | 08:30 to 12:00 | Interbull Open Meetings (4+5) | 
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 | 13:00 to 15:00 | Interbull Business Meeting 2 | 
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 | 15:15 to 17:00 | Interbull Technical Committee (+ SAC) Meeting 2 | 
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 | 17:00 to 19:00 | Interbull Steering Committee Meeting 2 | 
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| Monday, 28 August | 08:30 to 12:30 | Joint Session with EAAP Genetics or Cattle Commission | EAAP | 
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 | 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
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 | Session | Time | Author | Scientific report title | Other authors | Country | Organization | 
| Saturday, August 26th | Integration of new phenotypes/initiatives into (inter)national genomic evaluations (1)   | 08:30 | N. Friggens | Genomic management tools to optimize resilience and efficiency | C. Kaya, A.W.M. Roozen | France | INRA | 
| 08:45 | E. Groeneveld | Large scale SNP data management and integration in breeding programs | 
 | Germany | FLI | ||
| 09:00 | W.M. Stoop | Genomics in small populations: the MRY breed | G. Veninga, G. de Jong, F. Reinhardt | the Netherlands | CRV BV | ||
| 09:15 | H. Alkhoder | The impact of adding cows to the EuroGenomics bull reference population on genomic prediction | Z. Liu, F. Reinhardt | Germany | VIT | ||
| 09:30 | H. Jorjani | InterGenomics for Holstein populations | H. Jorjani, V. Palucci, J. Sendecka | Sweden | Interbull Centre | ||
| 09:45 | General Discussion | ||||||
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 | 10:00 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Integration of new phenotypes/initiatives into (inter)national genomic evaluations (2)   | 10:30 | A. Kudinov | Upgrading dairy cattle evaluation sustem in Russian Federation | J. Juga, P. Uimari, E.A. Mäntysaari, I. Strandén, K.V. Plemyashov, E.I. Saksa, M.G. Smaragdov | Finland, Russian Federation | University of Helsinki, Russian Reserch Institute of Farm Animals Genetic and Breeding | |
| 10:45 | R. Bonifazi | Preliminary study of VCE for Limousine and Charolais breeds through Mix99 software | E. Hjerpe, T. Pabiou, H. Benhajali, H. Jorjani | Sweden | Interbull Centre | ||
| 11:00 | A. Govignon-Gion | Genetic evaluation of calving ease for French beef cattle breeds with dairy maternal support | Bouleisteix P., Brunet J.L., Delpeuch A., Miller S., Venot E., Mattalia S. | France | Institut de l'Elevage | ||
| 11:15 | H. Täubert | A new model for the genetic evaluation for longevity in Germany | J. Heise, F. Reinhardt, R. Reents | Germany | VIT | ||
| 11:30 | P. Amer | Options for incorporating feed intake data into national selection indexes | S. Meier | New Zealand | AbacusBio | ||
| 11:45 | L. Chavinskaia | International order of cattle breeding. Interbull as a space of commensuration | 
 | France | INRA | ||
| 12:00 | Z. Liu (presented by H. Jorjani) | SNP-MACE | H. Jorjani | Germany | VIT | ||
| 12:15 | General Discussion | ||||||
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 | 12:30 -13:30 | Lunch | |||||
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 | 13:30 - 15:30 | Interbull Business meeting 1 | |||||
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 | 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||||
| Model choice & Validation of GES in the genomic era (3)   | 16:00 | I. Misztal | Studies on inflation of GEBV in single-step GBLUP for type | S. Tsuruta, Y. Masuda, D. Lourenco, T. J. Lawlor | USA | University of Georgia | |
| 16:30 | B. Harris | Experiencing solving large scale single step marker best linear unbiased models | 
 | New Zealand | LIC | ||
| 16:45 | C. Edel | Do biased gene-content estimates inflate genomic predictions with single-step GBLUP? | Pimentel, E.C.G.; Emmerling, R. and Götz, K.-U. | Germany | Bavarian State Research Center For Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding | ||
| 17:00 | S. Rensing | Cow reference population - benefit for genomic evaluation system and farmers | H. Alkhoder, C. Kubitz, S. Schierenbeck and D. Segelke | Germany | VIT | ||
| 17:15 | R. Bonifazi | Comparison of genomic reliability in national genomic evaluation of dairy cattle populations | V. Palucci, E. Hjerpe, F. M. Sarti, E. Lasagna, H. Jorjani, H. Benhajali | Sweden | Interbull Centre | ||
| 17:30 | R. Bonifazi (presented by H. Jorjani) | Speed up rG estimation | H. Benhajali, T. Pabiou, E. Hjerpe, M. Lidauer, H. Jorjani | Sweden | Interbull Centre | ||
| 17:45 | General Discussion | ||||||
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 | 19:00 - 22:00 | Interbull Dinner | |||||
| Sunday, August 27th | Impact of genomic pre-selection on N-GES and I-GES (MACE) + Model choice & validation of GES in the genomic era (4)  | 08:30 | I. J. P. Vermeer | Bias in proofs of non-random used sire | J.J. Vosman, G. de Jong | the Netherlands | CRV | 
| 08:45 | M. Koivula | Validation of genomic and genetic evaluations in 305d production traits of nordic Holstein cattle | I. Strandén, G. P. Aamand, Esa A. Mäntysaari | Finland | LUKE | ||
| 09:00 | Z. Liu | Approximating genomic reliabilities for national genomic evaluation | P. M. VanRaden, M. Lidauer, M. P. Calus, H. Benhajali, H. Jorjani and V. Ducrocq | Germany | VIT | ||
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 | 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Breack | |||||
| Intergration of new phenotypes/initiatives into (inter)national genetic evaluations (5)  | 10:30 | I. Rukin | Development of milk data control system for reducing the bias of genomic evaluation for the Russian Holstein breed | Pantiukh K., Rysina M., Knyazeva T., Grouzdev D. | Russian Federation | Moscow State University, I Gene LLC, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Breeding | |
| 10:45 | K. Stachowicz | Genetic parameters of cow functional survival and conformation traits with recommendations for genetic evaluation | C. Quinton, S. Meyer, P. Amer, C. Phyn | New Zealand | AbacusBio | ||
| 11:00 | A.M. Tyrisevä | Evaluation of conception rate in nordic dairy cattle | Muuttoranta, K., Pösö, J., Nielsen, U. S., Eriksson, J.-Å., Aamand, G.P., Mäntysaari, E. A., and M.H. Lidauer | Finland | LUKE | ||
| 11:15 | M. van Pelt | Improving the genetic evaluation for longevity in the Netherlands | G. de Jong, R. Veerkamp | the Netherlands | CRV | ||
| 11:30 | B. Fuerst-Waltl | Phenotypic and genetic relationships between subclinical ketosis, body condition score, fat-protein ratio and other diseases in Austrian Fleckvieh cows | A. Köck, F. Steininger, C. Fuerst, C. Egger-Danner | Austria | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences | ||
| 11:45 | J. Cole | Development of genomic evaluations for direct measures of health in U.S. Holsteins and their correlations with fitness traits | K.L. Parker Gaddis, M.E. Tooker, J.R. Wright, J.H. Megonigal, Jr., J.S. Clay, and P.M. VanRaden | USA | Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, ARS, USDA | ||
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 | 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch | ||||
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 | 13:00 - 15:00 | Interbull Business Meeting 2 | ||||

 
 