Honenheim, Germany
June 12, 2012

We cordially invite you to participate in the XVth Meeting of the EUCARPIA Section Biometrics in Plant Breeding.

The meeting will take place on 5-7 September 2012 in Hohenheim, Germany.

Registration is now open at https://eucarpia-biometrics-2012.uni-hohenheim.de/87528

The online registration has been extended until June 20. The registration fee is 300 € for Eucarpia members and 330 € for non-members.

Papers and posters should address any of the following five topics selected by the scientific committee:

• Genomic and marker assisted selection
• Implementation of breeding strategies in public and private sector programs
• Analysis and use of high throughput data in plant breeding (omics, NGS, and phenotyping platforms)
•  Phenotypic data: Experimental design and analysis for single and multiple experiments
• Various

The submission deadline has been extended until June 20, 2012.

Submissions of abstracts for oral presentations and posters can be sent via e-mail to hartung@uni-hohenheim.de.

We have eight invited speakers:

• Rex Bernardo (University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA)
• Scott Chapman (CSIRO, St Lucia, Australia)
• Daniel Gianola (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
• Evert Gutteling (Rijk Zwaan, The Netherlands)
• Theo Meuwissen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway)
• Mikko Sillanpäa (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Oliver Stegle (Max-Planck-Institut, Tübingen, Germany)
• Emlyn Williams (Austalian National University, Canberra, Australia)

For further details please visit the conference webpage at
https://eucarpia-biometrics-2012.uni-hohenheim.de/85015
 

Website: http://www.eucarpia.org/

Published: June 12, 2012