Teaching

We contribute to courses, workshops and textbooks relating to quantitative genetics and breeding

Resources

We are helping to design and deliver a new online postgraduate programme.  The first cohort of students begin September 2025.

Information on registration and the programme available here


Image with course information

This text book is suitable for graduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers of animal breeding, genetics and genomics and provides a thorough grounding in both the basics and in new developments of linear models and animal genetics. Ivan Pocrnić is a coauthor on this book and has provided all examples in R.

Linear Models for the Prediction of the Genetic Merit of Animals text book

Solved exercises in R and BLUPF90


Image of the front cover of the text book on linear models for the prediction of the genetic merit of animals

Ivan Pocrnić is an instructor on this course which shows how to model an existing or new breeding programmes and evaluate alternative breeding scenarios.

Breeding programme modelling with AlphaSimR on edX


Screenshot of course on edX website

Workshops and short courses

Ivan Pocrnić was at the University of Georgia to deliver a short course on AlphaSimR.


Ivan Pocrnic standing at the front of the room beside a screen introducing the workshop

The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH) hosted a capacity-building training workshop on Genomic Tools for Animal Breeding in Tropical Livestock in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Chrissy Rochus was one of the trainers.


Photo of the trainers of the workshop

We hosted a two-day workshop in Edinburgh supported by funding from the British Council Going Global Partnerships programme. This was a British Council Springboard Programme for bilateral UK-France partnerships with participants from the University of Edinburgh and INRAE.


Workshop attendees sitting around a table listening to a presenter

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