Session Programme

Technical Session 1

ICAR / Interbull joint session on “Advances in Genetics and Phenotyping”

Chairs: Carolina Markev (Vaxa) and Daniel Lefebvre (Lactanet) │ Auditorium Room │ Wednesday – 3 June 2026 (14.00-16.00)

Time Title Presenter(s) Abstract Presentation
11:00-11:15 Limits to selection in U.S. dairy cattle after several generations of genomic evaluation John B. Cole
11:15-11:30 Genetic associations between methane emission and other economically important traits Bjørg Heringstad
11:30-11:45 BWYPEX: Discovery, Approval and Management of Genetic Abnormalities in Cattle Colin Lynch
11:45-12:00 Digital Innovation at the Service of Breeders: The Synergy Portal and Mobile App for Real-Time Genetic Decision Support Enrico Carlo Santus
12:00-12:15 Novel approach to develop robust artificial neural network for FT-MIR prediction of enteric methane emissions in dairy cows Hélène Soyeurt
12:15-12:30 Using milk mid-infrared spectra from dairy cows to predict methane measured by sniffers and GreenFeed Anouk van Breukelen
12:30-12:45 Prediction of methane emissions based on milk fatty acid profiles shows similar performance to milk MIR spectra Astrid Köck
12:45-13:00 Comparing Methodologies for Deriving Methane Phenotypes from Laser Methane Detector Data in Small Ruminants Emna Rekik

Abstracts and Presentations will be added before and after the conference.