报告题目：Phenomics: a new era for animal breeding

报告摘要：

Myriad applications for genomic information in animal breeding and selection have emerged over the last decade. This is largely due to developments in high-throughput DNA sequencing and genotyping technologies. These new technologies have paved the way to consolidate improvement of livestock populations, with the final objective to design sustainable animal production systems. However, as animal breeding relies on the availability of accurate and specific phenotype data to reach its goals, phenotyping is increasingly being recognised as a limiting factor in all applications of livestock genetics and genomics. The acquisition of relevant phenotypes is also fundamental to routine and daily management of livestock populations to optimise reproduction strategies, disease control and welfare of the animals and reduce the environmental impact of the animal productions. Phenomics can be defined as the ensemble of methodologies and technologies for the acquisition, analysis, and exploitation of high-dimensional phenotypic data on an organism-wide scale, and it is emerging as a major new technical discipline in biology.

个人简介：

Valentina Bonfatti is an associate professor at the University of Padova, Italy. She earned PhD in Animal Science (Animal Breeding and Genetics) at the University of Padova in 2009 and had more than 10-year postdoctoral experience in the field of animal science. Since 2008, Valentina has published 43 papers (29 by first author) in top-ranking peer-reviewed scientific journals and the H index is 17 (source: Scopus). She is also a visiting scientist at world renowned research institutions and co-investigator of several national and international research projects in collaboration with breeder associations and dairy/meat industry partners.

 

报告时间：2023年9月7日（周四） 下午14:00-16:00

报告地点：生院会议室