Announcement

Congratulations to our recent graduates, Dr. Ashley Ling and Dr. Sungbong Jang on your successful Ph.D. defenses. Ashley defended her dissertation titled “The Impact of […]

Congratulations Matias on winning the 2022 ASAS Young Scholar Award! The award was presented at the American Society of Animal Science meeting in Oklahoma City, […]

Three weeks of the BLUPF90 short course have come to an end! The students learned about Fortran programming, mixed model equations, the BLUPF90 family of […]

Dr. Daniela Lourenco and Natalia Leite travel to Gainesville, FL, to teach a BLUPF90 course to plant breeding and genetics students at the University of […]

Programming and computer algorithms in animal breeding with a focus on single-step GBLUP and genomic selection in practice Dates: May 16 – June 3, 2022 […]

UGA students travelled to St. Louis, Missouri in early December to attend the 46th annual National Swine Improvement Federation meeting. Two Ph.D. students, Natália Galoro […]

Dr. Egbert Knol and Bart Remers of Topigs Norsvin travelled to Athens, GA from the Netherlands to visit with the UGA Animal Breeding and Genetics […]

Congratulations to Fiona Louise Guinan, a M.S. student under the supervision of Dr. Daniela Lourenco on the successful defense of her M.S. thesis titled ‘Changes […]

Last Friday, the UGA Animal Breeding and Genetics group gathered at Dr. Misztal’s to celebrate an early Thanksgiving! Great food, walks and a crackling fire […]