Programme
6 May, room Audhumbla, VHC building
13:00 Registration and lunch
14:00 Welcome, Rosario García Gil, vice-chair of the SLU Breeding Network and senior Lecturer at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
14:10 Keynote: Synergies between plant and animal breeding, John Hickey, Corn Germplasm Product Unit Lead at Bayer Crop Science
15:05 Poster session & coffee break
16:10 Module 1: Phenomics, AI and machine learning
Enhancing biological insights into complex crop traits using machine learning - Amanda Karlstrom, Dept. of Plant Breeding
Using AI to assess keel bone characteristics in laying hens - Sallam Mohammed Abdallah, Dept of Animal Biosciences
Phenomics and AI in forest breeding - Rosario García Gil, Senior Lecturer at the Dept of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
17:15 Seed Money flash talks: Ronja Wonneberger, Irene Merino & Jens Sundström
17:35 Breeding initiatives SLU Grogrund and SLUBI at SLU
18:00 Dinner, Ulls restaurang
7 May, room Audhumbla, VHC building
08:30 Young researchers’ flash talks and winning poster announcement
09:15 Module 2: Genomic resources in breeding
Genomic resources for forest tree breeding - Haleh Hayatgheibi, Dept of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
Genomics in animal breeding for selection and discovery - Martin Johnsson, Dept of Animal Biosciences
Haplotype-resolved complex polyploid genomes of timothy grasses – P. nodosum, P. alpinum and P. pratense - Girma Bedada, Researcher at the Dept of Plant Biology
10:10 Interactive roundtable: breeding at SLU & networking café
11:00 Interactive roundtables evaluation and closing remarks, Erling Strandberg, Professor in animal breeding and genetics
11:00 Excursion to Lövsta (optional), lunchbox for those attending the excursion
13:30 Drop off at Uppsala C or campus Ultuna for those attending the excursion