Webinar

breeding genetics

8 February 2022

14:00 - 15:30 CET

Breeding and genetics

Webinar organised with the working group EF3.
Chair: Dr Steffen Weigend (Germany) & Dr Michèle Tixier-Boichard (France)

Webinars will be open to registered participants only. Registration fees include online access to the webinars, to all e-posters, and attendance to the on-site event in 2022.

With the support of

Program

Chair: Dr S.WEIGEND,  from Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Neustadt, Germany & Dr M. TIXIER-BOICHARD, INRAE, France 

AFTERNOON

14:00-14:15 CET 
Hui ZHANG,
Northeast Agricultural University, China
Microevolutionary dynamics of chicken genomes under divergent selection for adiposity

14:15-14:30 CET
Clemens FALKER-GIESKE,
Georg-August-University, Germany
Multiple omics analysis approaches point to a gabaergic dysfunction as a major cause of feather pecking in chickens 

14:30-14:45 CET
Samuel AGGREY,
University of Georgia, United States
Host transcriptome and metabolomic responses to eimeria SPP infection in meat-type chickens

14:45- 15:00 CET
Ian DUNN,
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Skeletal quality is related to keel bone damage, but is not explained by variation in egg production

15:00- 15:15 CET
Hervé CHAPUIS,
INRAE, France
Towards a canalisation of egg weight. An illustration in ducks

15:15- 15:30 CET
General discussion and final remarks