The 2009 Interbull Meeting

Auditorium, Level 0

Casaramona-CaixaForum

Av. Marqués de Comillas 6-8

Barcelona, Spain

August 21 to 24, 2009

INTERBULL OPEN SESSIONS

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

*Saturday, August 22^nd, 2009*
*National Genetic Evaluations – Chair: Enrico Santus*
08:00	Genetic evaluation for fertility traits in Austria and Germany	C. Fuerst and B. Gredler*
08:15	Expressing Female Fertility in the Walloon Region of Belgium: How to do?	S. Vanderick, C. Bastin and N. Gengler*
08:30	Genetic analysis of evaluations for female fertlility with production included	R. Mrode and M. Coffey*
08:45	Predicting mastitis resistance breeding values from somatic cell count indicator traits	H. Eding, Y. de Haas and G. de Jong*
09:00	Simultaneous and recursive random regression models for milk yield and somatic cell score in Canadian Holsteins	J. Jamrozik., J. Bohmanova and L.R. Schaeffer*
09:15	Estimation of parameters for heterogeneous variance adjustment on test-day data	Sz. Márkus*, E.A. Mäntysaari, I. Strandén and M.H. Lidauer
09:30	Estimation of variance components for Nordic red cattle test-day model: Bayesian Gibbs sampler vs. Monte Carlo EM REML	M.H. Lidauer, P. Madsen, K. Matilainen, E.A. Mäntysaari, I. Strandén, J. Pösö, J. Pedersen, U.S. Nielsen, J.-Å. Eriksson, K. Johansson, G.P. Aamand and R. Thompson*
09:45	Impact of using reduced rank random regression test-day model on genetic evaluation	H. Leclerc, I. Nagy and V. Ducrocq*
10:00	*Discussion*
10:15	*Coffee Break*

*International Genetic Evaluations – Chair: Bill Montgomerie*
11:00	Joint Nordic Genetic Evaluation of Growth and Carcass traits in Dairy Breeds	K. Johansson, U. S.Nielsen, J. Pösö, J.-Å. Eriksson and G. P. Aamand*
11:15	Beef without borders: genetic parameters for Charolaise and Limousine Interbeef genetic evaluation of weaning weights	E. Venot, M.N. Fouilloux, F. Forabosco, A. Fogh, T. Pabiou, M. Coffey, J.Å. Eriksson and D. Laloë*
11:30	Interbeef genetic evaluation of weaning weights for Charolaise and Limousine breeds	E. Venot, M.N. Fouilloux, F. Forabosco, A. Fogh, T. Pabiou, M. Coffey, J.E. Eriksson, D. Laloë*
11:45	MT-MACE for female fertility traits	M. Nilforooshan, J. Jakobsen, F. Fikse, B. Berglund, H. Jorjani
12:00	Comparison of different variance component estimation approaches for MACE	A.-M. Tyrisevä, K. Meyer, J. Jakobsen, V. Ducrocq, F. Fikse, M.H. Lidauer and E.A. Mäntysaari*
12:15	Validation of national genetic models for beef	F. Forabosco, J. Ahlqvist, V. Palucci and A. Näsholm*
12:30	*Discussion*
12:45	*Lunch Break*

*Monitoring genetic variability of livestock populations – Chair: Juraj Candrák*
14:00	Impact of milk production breeding program on the Guzerat population structure in Brazil	M.G.C.D. Peixoto, R.S. Verneque, M.C. Pereira, M.A. Machado and M.R.S. Carvalho*
14:15	Inbreeding rates in breeding programs with different strategies for using genomic selection	A.C. Sørensen and M.K. Sørensen*
14:30	Genetic structure of the European Limousine metapopulation using pedigree analyses	A. Bouquet, E. Venot, D. Laloë, F. Forabosco, A. Fogh, T. Pabiou, M. Coffey, J.E. Eriksson, G. Renand and F. Phocas*
14:45	Dairy cattle fit for diverging purposes	W. A. Montgomerie*
15:00	Changes in selection of Italian Holsteins	F. Canavesi, R. Finocchiaro and E. L. Nicolazzi*
15:15	*Discussion*
15:30	*Coffee Break*

*National Genetic Evaluations – Chair: Brian Van Doormaal*
16:00	Genetic analysis of calf and heifer losses in Danish Holstein	Birgit Fuerst-Waltl and Morten Kargo Sorensen*
16:15	Best use of conventional EBV of bull dams and combination with direct genomic values	S. Rensing, E. Pasman and F. Reinhardt*
16:30	Multi-breed genetic evaluation for docility in Irish Suckler Beef Cattle	R.D. Evans, T. Pabiou, F. Kearney and H. Mulder*
16:45	Prediction of beef carcass cut yields using Video Image Analysis	T. Pabiou, L. Kreuchwig, W. F. Fikse, A.R. Cromie, M.J. Drennan, M.G. Keane, A. Näsholm, and D.P. Berry*
17:00	Analyisis of calving traits with a multitrait animal model with a correlated direct and maternal effect	M.L. van Pelt, G. de Jong, J.H. Eding and J.E. Roelfzema*
17:15	Evaluation of factors influencing milk ejection in Gyr dairy cattle	V.A. Praxedes, M.F.A. Pires, M.C. Pereira, R.S. Verneque, M.A. Machado and M.G.C.D. Peixoto*
17:30	Consequences of change in the adjustment factors for calving age in the Brazilian program for improvement of dairy Gyr	M. C. Pereira, M. G. C. D. Peixoto and R. da S. Verneque*
17:45	Genomic conversion equations	A. Loberg, J. Dürr, H. Jorjani*
18:00	*Discussion*

*Sunday, August 23^rd, 2009*
*Use of genomic information in livestock genetic evaluation – Chair: Gert Pedersen Aamand*
08:00	Development of Genomic GMACE	P.G. Sullivan and P.M. Van Raden*
08:15	Relation between accuracies of genomic predictions and ancestral links to the training data	M. S. Lund, G. Su, U. S. Nielsen, and G. P. Aamand*
08:30	Evidence of a bias in national evaluation due to genomic preselection	P. Clotilde and D. Vincent*
08:45	A simple way to combine genomic and classical information in national BLUP evaluations	V. Ducrocq and Z. Liu*
09:00	Optimized aggregation of phenotypes for MA-BLUP evaluation in German Fleckvieh	C. Edel, R. Emmerling and K.-U. Goetz*
09:15	A simple method for correcting the bias caused by genomic pre-selection in conventional genetic evaluation	Z. Liu, F. Seefried, and F. Reinhardt*
09:30	National genomic evaluations without genotypes	B. Harris, D. Johnson and B. Montgomerie*
09:45	Incorporation of correlation between SNPs into the genomic evaluation model	J. Szyda, S. Kamiński, A.* Żarnecki and K. Żukowski
10:00	Estimating reliabilities of genomic breeding values	M. Calus, H. Mulder, K. Verbyla, R. Veerkamp*
10:15	Genomic evaluation testing environment	H. Jorjani*
10:30	*Discussion*
10:45	*Coffee* *Break*

*Use of genomic information in livestock genetic evaluation – Chair: Paul VanRaden*
11:00	Genomic Selection in Simmental/Fleckvieh - First Results	B. Gredler, K. G. Nirea, T. R. Solberg, C. Egger-Danner, T. Meuwissen and J. Solkner*
11:15	Canadian Implementation of Genomic Evaluations	B. V. Doormaal, G. Kistemaker, P. Sullivan, M. Sargolzaei and F. Schenkel*
11:30	Implementation of genomic evaluation in German Holsteins	F. Reinhardt, Z. Liu, F. Seefried, G. Thaller*
11:45	Implementation and uptake of genomic evaluations in Ireland	F. Kearney, A. Cromie, and D. Berry*
12:00	Work in progress on Italian Holstein genomic evaluation	J.B.C.H.M. van Kaam, G.B. Jansen, E.L. Nicolazzi & F. Canavesi*
12:15	Experiences in validating genomic evaluations	G. J. Kistemaker and P. G. Sullivan*
12:30	Utility of unsymmetric mixed model equations for MACE with genomic information	I. Misztal, T. Lawlor*
12:45	*Discussion*
13:00	*Lunch Break*