Responding to the demand of the plant breeding community, the University of California, Davis Plant Breeding Academy is offering its first open enrollment Advanced Module course.
The class will take place in Davis, California from Nov. 3-5, 2015. The module is designed to review breeding strategies using modern tools and build the necessary background towards understanding and practical application of BLUPs/genomic selection, with lectures and discussion on:
- 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 of the University of Arizona to deliver this module.
More information is available here: http://pba.ucdavis.edu/PBA_Advanced_Module/
