Nelson Lubanga

TRAIN@Ed Fellow

Moved to a project lead (in quantitative genetics) position at Dummen Orange (The Netherlands)

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Highlander Nelson

 

Research at the Highlander Lab

The main idea of my research is to develop a transition strategy to enable transition of plant breeding programmes from the current traditional approach to the two-part genomic selection strategy proposed by Gaynor et al. (2017).

Goals:

  • Conduct stochastic simulations to evaluate the effectiveness of:

    • (i) a conventional approach to plant breeding,
    • (ii) a conventional approach to the deployment of genomic selection in plant breeding,
    • (iii) the two-part strategy, and
    • (iv) various alternatives of the transition strategy
  • Use simulations results to guide the choice of the transition strategy in plant breeding programs

Gaynor et al. (2017) A Two-Part Strategy for Using Genomic Selection to Develop Inbred Lines, Crop Science.

Background

I have a PhD  in Plant Breeding and Genetics. I have previously worked at Unilever Tea Kenya as a plant breeder for eight years, where I was involved in the practical development of high yielding and good quality tea varieties, tolerant to biotic and abiotic conditions.

I am specifically interested in:

  • Genomic selection
  • Quantitative genetics                                                      
  • Plant breeding                                                                    

Programming language and software:

  • R & RStudio                                                                          
  • SAS
  • MS Office                                                                               
  • GenStat

Hobbies and personal interests

  • Driving
  • Sightseeing
  • Watching football