Detailed program

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Program overview

Sunday 23 September
4:00 pm Check-in registration
6:00 - 8:00 Welcome drinks and light snacks at Booloominbah
Monday 24 September
8:00 am Check-in registration continued
08:30 - 10:00 Plenary: Making real genetic progress
      Hein van der Steen; David Johnston
10:30 - 12:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Breeding Program Design Initiatives
      Pigs and Poultry
      Gene Expression and Bioinformatics
1:30 - 3:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Proof of Profit
      Gene Mapping
      Statistical Methods
3:30 - 5:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Adoption
      Sheep
      Genomics
7:00 Conference BBQ and bush dance at the Armidale Showground
Tuesday 25 September
8:30 - 9:45 Plenary: Sustainable breeding programs
      Piter Bijma; Wendy Rauw
9:45 - 10:00 Overview of posters on display:
      Susanne Hermesch
10:00 - 10:30 Poster session during morning tea break:
      Authors or representative to be present with poster
10:30 - 12:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Sheep
      Software tools
      Genetic Evaluation and Marker Assisted Selection
1:30 - 3:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Sheep (continued)
      Beef
      Gene mapping
3:00 - 3:30 Poster session during afternoon tea break:
      Authors or representative to be present with poster
3:30 - 5:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Genetic evaluation
      Sheep QTL
      Dairy and Limits to Production
7:00 Conference dinner and awarding of Fellows at the Ex-Services Club
Wednesday 26 September
8:30 - 10:00 Plenary: Development and use of genomic technologies
      Curt Van Tassell; Richard Spelman
10:30 - 12:00 Concurrent sessions:
      Breeding objectives
      Genomics
1:15 - 1:45 Plenary: Helen Newton Turner Oration
1:45 - 3:30 Plenary: Where to from here?
      Brian Kinghorn; Geoff Nicoll; Julius van der Werf

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