Profile

Research interests

• Cattle breeding plans
• Use of molecular information and technologies in selective animal breeding
• Inbreeding
• Environmental and genetic stress

Main activities:

• Completion of Business PhD in collaboration with KU-Life, the Danish Cattle Federation and Viking Danmark
• Development of computer program for stochastic simulation of selective breeding schemes in animals
• Evaluation of breeding schemes for dairy cattle involving
  - marker assisted selection
  - use of sexed semen

(Last updated May 2008)