Symposium in honor of Research Professor Esa Mäntysaariسمپوزیوم 2023 13 سپتامبر

Symposium in honor of Research Professor Esa Mäntysaari

Thank you for your registration to a hybrid Symposium to honor the career of Research Professor Esa Mäntysaari. The symposium has achieved great popularity – we have now over 200 registered participants.
 
The presentations will be recorded. We warmly welcome you to the symposium!

Date: September 13, 2023

Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm EEST

Venue: Jokioisten Tietotalo, Humppilantie 9, 31600 Jokioinen Finland (https://www.jokioistentietotalo.fi/) and virtual

Program

• 8:30–8:50        Coffee, on-site
• 8:50–9:00        Antti Asikainen, online, Opening words

Session I

• 9:00–9:30        Maria Carabano, online, Heat tolerance. From phenotype to genotype and back
• 9:30–10:00      Gert P. Aamand, on-site, Joint Nordic Genetic Evaluation – a journey
• 10:00–10:30    Ismo Strandén, on-site, Single-step and the Lost J Factors
• 10:30–11:00    Jeremie Vandenplas, online, From ssGBLUP to ssSNPBLUP and ssGTBLUP for efficient large-scale evaluations
• 11:00–11:30    Reiner Emmerling, on-site, From test day model to genomics: stimulating collaboration with the MiX99 team
• 11:30–12:30    Lunch at Tietotalo

Session II

• 12:30–13:00    John Hickey, online, Reflections on moving between the worlds of plant and animal breeding
• 13:00–13:30    Just Jensen, on-site, Genomic Prediction for Hybrid Crops accounting for Incomplete Inbreeding
• 13:30–14:00    Outi Manninen, on-site, Genomic prediction meets plant breeding realities: Mind the gap!
• 14:00–14:30    Hafedh Ben Zaabza, on-site, Characterization of additive, dominance, and runs of homozygosity effects inbreeds of US Jersey cattle
• 14:30–15:00    Coffee

Session III

• 15:00–15:30    Esa Mäntysaari, on-site, EM and AI REML – 35 years of exercise
• 15:30–16:00    Paul VanRaden, online, Improvements in validating predictions and solving multi-trait genomic models
• 16:00–16:30    Zengting Liu, online, Calculation of deregressed genomic breeding values and approximate reliabilities for single-step evaluation of test-day traits in German Holstein
• 16:30–17:00    Mike Coffey, online, Phenotype is king
• 17:00               Anu Kaukovirta, on-site, Closing words
• 17:05               Informal greetings to Esa