Biometrical methods for analyzing plant breeding trial data in the omics era
Registration deadline: 31 August 2019 (or until max. of 30 participants is reached)
Organizer: Prof. Rodomiro Ortiz & Dr. Therese Bengtsson
Website: https://www.slu.se/en/cv/rodomiro-octavio-ortiz-rios/
Post-graduate students and professional doing field research on plant breeding using trials across sites and over years or cropping seasons, particularly those working on the analysis of controlling the inheritance of complex traits are welcome to attend this course (3 ECTs), whose guest lecturers are Prof. José Crossa (CIMMYT, Mexico), and Prof. Paulino Pérez (Colegio Postgraduados, Mexico). The objectives of this course are (1) to provide basic biometrical and quantitative genetic concepts to be applied in designing and analyzing data from field trials, particularly variety testing; (2) to give some basic statistical models and methods for dissecting genotype-by-environment interaction in the omics era; (3) to show practical results on multi-environment trials across sites and over years (or seasons) in different breeding contexts; (4) to demonstrate implementations of various stat methods using the R software package; (5) to discuss general concepts of genomic selection and prediction; (6) to learn the quantitative genetic basis of genomic selection; and (7) to understand statistical models for genomic selection and prediction. There will be morning’s lectures on theory and results from real data applications and afternoon’s hands-on practices for running R codes fitting a variety of stat models.
Monday, November 18, 2019 through November 22
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