
HighlanderLab
@highlanderlab
Research on managing and improving populations at @RoslinInstitute & @TheDickVet. Led by the chief Highlander @GregorGorjanc. Also on fediscience dot org
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/highlanderlab 29-07-2019 00:25:47
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Last week some of us attended the 1st EAAPofficial Insect Genetics Workshop, which was organised with COST InsectIMP Insect - IMP Action action by Gertje Petersen 🏳️🌈🇩🇪 in 🇳🇿 and Jana Obsteter . We presented

Irene De Carlos presented her work on Modelling the Impact of Non-Native Honey Bee Importation on Native Apis mellifera mellifera Populations (with Laura Strachan, Grace McCormack, Jana Obšteter)

Jana Obsteter presented the work of Laura Strachan on Optimizing pedigree reconstruction and patriline determination in honeybees (with Jernej Bubnič and Janez Presern)




It can be tricky to visualise large #pedigrees. We have develped 'randPedPCA' for running #PCA on large pedigrees (can be >1M individuals). Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… and the R package github.com/HighlanderLab/… Gregor Gorjanc Hanbin Lee Hannes Becher


I feel blessed & hyped after another fantastic HighlanderLab meeting covering: * Selective breeding of artemia Bruna Santana * Selection index (Smith-Hazel, desired gains, economic weights, …) Daniel Tolhurst

* Imprinting / gametic models on simulated and real beef data David Lopez Carbonell * Selection for stability in plant breeding Dominic Waters * Tracking inheritance of alleles within a dog pedigree Rosalind Craddock * EUCARPIA Conference organisation highlanderlab.github.io/EUCARPIA2025Bi…