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World-leading research consortium facilitating animal breeding innovations

Wageningen, Nederland
Joined January 2014
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It's out in the open now, the next #WCGALP conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, US in July 2026. Please follow @wcgalp2026 to stay up to date with all required info – at Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Come to visit us at @Breed4Food café to enjoy coffee and have a nice conversation with our @BetterBreeding colleagues ;) #WCGALP2022 #HendrixGenetics #BetterBreeding #PassionForScience
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Busy first day at the @Breed4Food cafe on #WCGALP2022.
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The website for #wcgalp2022 is live! Check it out, subscribe to the newsletter, and share with your colleagues: wcgalp.com/
The Breed4Food Seminar: "Genomics Insight" recently took place. Online you can read the summary and view the presentations given. #seminar #breed4food #CRV #diary #breeding #animalscience breed4food.com/item/47-breed…
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STW-Partnership Day livestock breeding - review On the website the review can be read and the video with the presentations of the online seminar can be watched. breed4food.com/news/item/34-… #breed4food #WUR #COBB #CRV #topigsnorsvin #hendrixgenetics #STW
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Step detection model for #turkeys helps improve #animalwelfare. @Breed4Food @BetterBreeding @jadatascience #WUR_ABG. wur.nl/en/Research-Results/R…
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#Resilience | Publication @jdairyscience: Fluctuations in milk yield measured by milking robots can be used to breed trouble-free cows. #WUR_ABG @Breed4Food @GenTORE_H2020 @CobbEurope @CRV4all @BetterBreeding @TopigsNorsvin bit.ly/3agNYM2
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Recently a new CASA article has been accepted and published. 'Machine learning to further improve the decision which boar ejaculates to process into artificial insemination doses' Thanks to all the researchers involved in it. breed4food.com/1891-2/
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! 🎄🎅🏻🌟
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Heb jij een vraag voor een moleculair geneticus? Volgende week is @WUR-wetenschapper Mirte Bosse te gast in @mkklkprtnpdcst! Mirte weet alles over 'evolutie in actie’, bijv. hoe menselijk handelen het DNA van dieren beïnvloedt. Deel je vraag hier of mail redactie@newscientist.nl.
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Recording individual levels of activity of group-housed broilers wur.nl/en/Value-Creation-Coo… #wur_abg @cobbvantress @basrodenburg @EstherEllen80 @Yvette_deHaas
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With pleasure we invite you for the seminars on October 17th. breed4food.com/seminar-susta…
Today at #eaap2019 @EstherEllen80 presents the work we do to improve the opportunities to track individual animals kept is groups in order to collect data that might be used for breeding programmes; e.g., traits related to health and welfare
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#CRISPR-Cas | Prof. Martien Groenen @WURanimal explains the role gene-editing techniques can play in the future of #AnimalBreeding.
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| Voeding | @WUR zal deelnemen aan een nauwe samenwerking met de provincies #Gelderland en #Utrecht en de regiogemeenten uit de @FoodValley_NL om onderzoek te doen naar een versnelling van de transitie naar een gezond en duurzaam voedselsysteem. bit.ly/2JYwZ4L
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Successful seminar today with great talks on the why, how and what of tracking and monitoring individual animals housed in groups from scientists, industry and the B4F director #wur_abg
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Use of artificial intelligence to predict slaughter age of pigs. An interesting example of collaboration between data scientists and animal breeders in the Breed4Food Partnership ‘Predicting Phenotypes’. #breed4food #animalbreeding #research bit.ly/2VXuSCj
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