Jana Obsteter

Research at the Highlander Lab

My current area of research lies in the field of animal breeding. I focus on developing practical solutions and improving the efficiency of breeding programmes for dairy cattle and insects. More specifically,

Goals

• Dairy breeding, where breeding schemes are well established, we aim to develop sustainable breeding strategies with the use of genomic information for small populations
• Honeybee breeding, where systematic breeding is in its initial stages, we aim to develop a breeding simulator, test different breeding strategies and design a sustainable breeding programme

Background

I finished BSc in Biotechnology at the University in Ljubljana and MSc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis with the focus on human genetics at the University of Edinburgh. I obtained PhD in Biosciences at the University of Ljubljana, e-supervised by Gregor Gorjanc. During my studies I gained wet and dry laboratory skills, with the latter including statistical modelling, population modelling, programming, and R-package development.