ICAR / Interbull joint session on “Advances in Genetics and Phenotyping”
Chairs: Urs Schnyder (Qualitas AG) and Daniel Lefebvre (Lactanet) │ Auditorium Room │ Wednesday – 3 June 2026 (14.00-16.00)
Sessions
Chairs: Urs Schnyder (Qualitas AG) and Daniel Lefebvre (Lactanet) │ Auditorium Room │ Wednesday – 3 June 2026 (14.00-16.00)
| Time | Title | Presenter(s) | Abstract | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:15 | Limits to selection in U.S. dairy cattle after several generations of genomic evaluation | John B. Cole | ||
| 14:15-14:30 | Genetic associations between methane emission and other economically important traits | Bjørg Heringstad | ||
| 14:30-14:45 | BWYPEX: Discovery, Approval and Management of Genetic Abnormalities in Cattle | Colin Lynch | ||
| 14:45-15:00 | Digital Innovation at the Service of Breeders: The Synergy Portal and Mobile App for Real-Time Genetic Decision Support | Enrico Carlo Santus | ||
| 15:00-15:15 | Novel approach to develop robust artificial neural network for FT-MIR prediction of enteric methane emissions in dairy cows | Hélène Soyeurt | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | Using milk mid-infrared spectra from dairy cows to predict methane measured by sniffers and GreenFeed | Anouk van Breukelen | ||
| 15:30-15:45 | Prediction of methane emissions based on milk fatty acid profiles shows similar performance to milk MIR spectra | Astrid Köck | ||
| 15:45-16:00 | Comparing Methodologies for Deriving Methane Phenotypes from Laser Methane Detector Data in Small Ruminants | Sarah Joe Burn |
Abstracts and Presentations will be added before and after the conference.