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

Competitiveness of North American Young Bulls Based on GMACE on Other Country Scales

Van Doormaal, Kistemaker, Sullivan

09.00

Experiences with GMACE and Wallone Single Step genomic eval. system

F.G. Colinet

09.15

Correlations between GMACE and National GEBV in CZE

Zavadilova/Pesek

09.30

German Experience with GMACE Implementation and Publication

H. Täubert, S. Rensing

09.45

Open Discussion

10.15

Coffee Break

Progress report in genomic reliability task force

Chairperson: Gert Aamandt Pedersen

10.45

Progress report in genomic reliability task force

Bevin Harris

11.15

Reliability of ssGBLUP Breeding Values in Routine TD-MT-Model

Josef Pribyl

11.30

Open discussion

12.00

Lunch

International Genetic Correlations

Chairperson: Andrew Cromie

13.30

Across Country Genetic Correlations: From Estimation to Utilization

Hossein Jorjani

14.00

Across Country Genetic Correlations: Fine-Tuning of the Post Processing

R. Mrode, E .Mäntisaari, T. Lawlor

14.15

Open Discussion

14.30

Coffee Break

Selection bias

Chairperson: Enrico Santus

15.00

Lessons to be learnt from simulation studies on genomic pre-selection of young bulls

Vincent Ducrocq

15.30

Use of Pseudo-Records in the Dutch/Flemish Genetic Evaluation of Dairy Cattle

Herwin Eding

16.00

Effect of genomic preselection on the stability of EBV's from traditional BLUP procedures for production traits - a practical

Ulrik Sander Nielsen

16.30

Monitoring U.S. genetic evealuations for the influence of Genomic Pre-Selection

Paul VanRaden, J.R. Wright, T.J. Lawlor

17.00

Plenary discussion about selection bias implications

19.00

Dinner

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