Davis, California, USA
June 18, 2015
Responding to the demand of the plant breeding community, the UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy is offering the first open enrollment Advanced Module course. The class will take place in Davis, CA, November 3-5, 2015. The module is designed to review the breeding strategies in context of the modern tools and build the necessary background towards understanding and practical application of BLUPs, genomic selection, with lectures and discussion on the following topics:
- Multivariate selection
- Linear and mixed models
- BLUPs
- Genomic selection
- Advancements in dealing with testing environments
- Experimental designs
UC Davis instructors will be joined by Bruce Walsh, University of Arizona, to deliver this module.
The full registration fee is $950. An early-bird discount of $100 is available for registrations before September 1, 2015.
Start: November 3rd, 2015, Tuesday at 8:00 am. Finish: November 5th, 2015, Thursday at 4:30 pm.
For more information and registration please go to Advanced Module or contact Joy Patterson at jpatterson@ucdavis.edu.
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