Edinburgh Innovations Fellow Research at the Highlander Lab Image Disentangling genotype by environment (GxE) interaction for selection in breeding programmes at a global scale. Main goals: Novel approaches to exclusively partition GxE interaction into components reflecting changes in scale across environments and changes in rank. Efficient selection indices for improving the performance and stability of a population amid climate change. Integrating known and latent environmental information to improve the adaptability of individuals in future environments. Scaleable sampling schemes for fitting complex GxE models to global breeding data in real-time. Background I am an inaugural Edinburgh Innovations Fellow placed at The Roslin Institute for my project selGxE: Scoping, Estimating and Leveraging genotype by environment interaction in breeding programmes. I am a trained biometrician turned quantitative geneticist working to leverage both fields for improving the efficiency of breeding. I completed my PhD here at The Roslin Institute titled “Genomic prediction models, selection tools and association studies for genotype by environment data”. Prior to moving to Edinburgh, I held a research position at the University of Wollongong, Australia, with major projects for the Australian Grains Industry and Department of Primary Industries/Fisheries. I am specifically interested in: Linear mixed models Variance parameter estimation Partitioning genetic variation Hybrid breeding Experimental design Programming language and software: R and Rstudio LaTeX, knitr R Shiny Relevant links ORCID Twitter Research Gate LinkedIn This article was published on 2024-09-02
