2015 Interbull Technical Workshop and Industry Meeting

Date: February 24-25, 2014
Venue: Hotel Forellenhof, Walsrode, Germany

General Program - Interbull Activities

Date

Time

Activity

Room

Chair

18/05/2014

8:30 – 17:00

Interbull Technical Committee Meeting

30610

Gert Pedersen Aamand

19/05/2014

10:30-18:00

1st Interbull Steering Committee Meeting

30612

Reinhard Reents

20/05/2014

8:30-10:30

1st Interbull Business Meeting

Estrelsaal A

Reinhard Reents

11:00 -13:00

Interbull Open Session: Genetic evaluation methods

Estrelsaal A

Brian Van Doormaal

14:00 – 16:00

Interbull Open Session: National and International genetic evaluations

Estrelsaal A

Marija Klopcic

16:30 – 18:00

ICAR/Interbull Technical Session: Parentage verification and parentage discovery

Estrelsaal A

Suzanne Harding

21/05/2014

8:30 – 10:30

Interbull Open Session: National and international genomic evaluations

Estrelsaal C

Gert Pedersen Aamand

11:00 – 12:31

Interbull Open Session: Breeding objectives and novel traits

Estrelsaal C

Daniel Abernethy

14:00 – 15:30

2nd Interbull Business Meeting

Estrelsaal C

Reinhard Reents

16:00 – 19:00

2nd Interbull Steering Committee Meeting

30610

Reinhard Reents

Detailed Program

Tuesday February 24, 2015, Technical Workshop (Forellenhof, Walsrode)

Time

Session/title

Speaker

8.30

Opening

Reinhard Reents

National Experiences with GMACE

Chairperson: Sophie Mattalia

08.45

How do imputation errors affect genomic breeding values?

Christian Edel, Reiner Emmerling, Kay-Uwe Götz

09.00

Genotype imputation based on discriminant and cluster analysis

Theo Meuwissen, Thore Egeland

09.15

Simultaneous deregression of cow and bull breeding values

Ghyslaine Schopen, Roel Veerkamp

09.30

How to select foreign young bulls when no domestic information is available?

Vincent DUCROCQ

09.45

Alternatives for modeling of traits within the calving traits complex

B. Waurich, M. Wensch-Dorendorf

10.15

Improving genomic prediction using GBLUP model with weighted G-matrix

Ole F. Christensen, Luc Janss and Mogens S. Lund

Progress report in genomic reliability task force

14:00

Selection changes in the United States due to genomics

J. M. Mattison and J. R. Wright

14:13

Historical and future developments in the New Zealand genetic evaluation system for dairy cattle

Peter Amer, Bevin Harris, Rachel Wood

14:26

Management of genetic characteristics

Helge Täubert, Sandra Jansen, Hubert Pausch, Friedrich Reinhardt, Georg Thaller

14:39

Illustration of the interest of Robust Mace

V.Palucci, S. Mattalia, H. Jorjani, V. Ducrocq

14:52

Overview of the Mendelian Sampling Variance test pilot study

H.Jorjani, J.Dürr, A.-M. Tyrisevä

15:05

Does moment first insemination represents moment first heat?

W. Elshof-Baars, G. de Jong

15:18

New approaches to fertility evaluation in seasonal calving system

G. Jenkings, P. Amer, S. Meier

15:31

Modelling fertility traits under natural mating conditions in beef cattle

Clara Díaz, Mª Jesús Carabaño

15:44

Validation of GMACE results based on direct genomic predictions

8:30

Accuracy of DGVs for Original Braunvieh: across breed evaluation using phenotypes and genotypes of Original Braunvieh and Brown-Swiss cattle.

Jürg Moll, Birgit Gredler

8:43

Prediction of GEBV in comparison with MACE value of genotyped young foreign bulls

J. Bauer, V. Čermák, J. Motyčka, P. Pešek, J. Přibyl, J. Přibylová, J. Šplíchal, L. Vostrý, L. Zavadilová

8:56

Optimum polygenic level in the Intergenomics evaluation of BSW populations

9:09

A continuous genomic evaluation system for German Holsteins

Z. Liu, E. Pasman, Th. Bach and F. Reinhardt

9:22

GMACE pilot #4: Adjusting the national reliability input data.

Jette Jakobsen

9:35

GMACE without variance estimation?

Jette Jakobsen

9:48

Effect of the size of the reference population on the validation reliability of natinonal genomic evaluations

Mohammad Nilforooshan

10:01

A review of the validation of national genomic evaluations

11:00

Breeding cows suitable for an automatic milking system

G. De Jong, H. Eding

11:13

Genomic predictions for dry matter intake using the international reference population of gDMI

Roel Veerkamp, gDMI consortium

11:26

Breeding Value for Dry Matter Intake for Dutch Bull based on Combination of GEBV for DMI and EBV for Predictors

Mario P.L. Calus, Gerben de Jong, René van der Linde, Yvette de Haas

11:39

Genetic parameters for claw health traits in Spanish dairy cows

M. A. Pérez-Cabal

11:52

Genomic Prediction for Claw-health Using Multi-trait Model

Gert P. Aamand, Ulrik S. Nielsen, Mogens S. Lund

12:05

Index for Mastitis resistance and use of BHBA for evaluation of health traits in Canadian Holsteins

Astrid Koeck, Janusz Jamrozik, Flavio Schenkel, Dave Kelton, Gerrit Kistemaker and Brian Van Doormaal

12:18

Strategies to combine novel traits across countries: example of heat stress

Hammami H., J. Vandenplas , M. J. Carabaño, B. Logar, J. Bormann , C. Bertozzi, N. Gengler