Conferences

SMARTER representatives will attend numerous conferences and workshops; during these events, the latest project developments, progresses and results will be presented to the audience.

2021

• 24^th Congress Association of Animal Science and Production (ASPA) in Padua (Italy, 21^st – 24^th September 2021). CNR presentation.
• 72^nd Hybrid EAAP Annual Meeting in Davos (Switzerland, 30^th August – 3^rd September 2021). Presentations: 1) “Single step genetic evaluation of resistance to parasites in the Swiss Alpine goat population” (FiBL & Qualitas); 2) “The rumen microbiota is modified in lambs divergently selected for residual feed intake” (INRAE); 3) “Bench-testing future systems: combining genetics, nutrition and farm types to predict outcomes” (INRAE); 4) “First estimations of methane emissions using Sheep GreenFeed in the Romane breed” (INRAE); 5) “Plasmatic and ruminal metabolomes of lambs divergently selected on residual feed intake” (INRAE); 6) “Evaluation of different models to define a more suitable Residual Feed Intake estimation in Merino sheep” (INIA-UY). Poster: 1) “Repeatability of udder health and welfare traits of semi-extensively reared dairy goats in Greece” (AUTH).
• Jornada cierre CRILU 2021 – project closing day (Virtual, 31st August 2021). INIA-UY presentation: “Merino uruguayo: ejemplo de mejora genética participativa Uruguayan Merino: example of participatory animal breeding”.
• AgroTICs: información al alcance de todos para sistemas más sostenibles (Virtual, 12^th August 2021). INIA-UY presentation: “TICs aplicadas a la medición de características relevantes en ganado bovino y ovino”.
• ISAG 2021 (Virtual, 26^th -30^th July 2021). UNILEON presentation: “Ovine mastitis: Does early live nutrition influence immunity response in later life?”.
• 2021 ASAS-CSAS-SSASAS Annual Meeting & Trade Show in Louisville (Kentucky, USA on 17^th July 2021). UofGUELPH presentation: “Single and Multiple-breed Genomic Predictions for Conformation Traits of Canadian Dairy Goats”.
• ADSA 2021 (Virtual, 11^th – 14^th July 2021). UofGUELPH presentation: “Accuracy of Single-step Genomic Breeding. Values for milk production traits for Canadian Alpine and Saanen Dairy Goats”.
• International Symposium on Sustainable Animal Production and Health – Current Status and Way Forward (Virtual, 28^th June – 2^nd July 2021). INIA-UY poster: “Breeding for Sheep parasite resistance in extensive production systems: from phenotype to genotype”.
• ISGC-IGGC 2021 (Virtual, 9^th -11^th June 2021). INRAE oral presentation: “A recessive stop-gain mutation in CCDC65 is associated with lamb mortality in French Lacaune dairy sheep”.
• Hbioinfo bridge 2021 (Virtual, 4^th June 2021). AUTH presentation: “Genome-wide association study of fertility traits in dairy sheep”.
• I Congreso Nacional de Caprinicultura (Virtual, 28^th May 2021). OVIGEN presentation: “Tecnologias reproductivas no melhoramento genético”.
• ICAR Virtual Conference 2021 (26^th -30^th April 2021). Presentations during the technical session n. 14 “Resilience and Efficiency in Small Ruminants”: 1) “SMARTER – Which novel traits to improve feed efficiency?” (INRAE); 2) “Feasibility of a genomic selection approach for gastro-intestinal nematodes resistance based on a female informative population in Sarda breed sheep” (AGRIS, SMARTER stakeholders); 3) “Selection tools to benefit from international cooperation in small ruminants: a comprehensive work package of the SMARTER project” (IDELE); 4) “A stakeholder platform to disseminate results from SMARTER project” (ICAR).
• 1er Encuentro de Agrogenómica (Virtual, 18^th March 2021). INIA-UY presentation: “Genómica y mejora genética animal: una década de I+D en Uruguay”.

2020

• 71^st EAAP Virtual Annual Meeting (1^st – 4^th December 2020). Presentations: 1)  “Potentials of using milk performance data as indicator for Targeted Selective Treatment in Lacaune dairy sheep in Switzerland” (FiBL & Qualitas AG); 2) “Actual and expected benefits from recent and on-going projects on the genetics of adaptation and resilience in the French dairy sheep and goats” (IDELE and al.); 3) “Evolution of genetic variance due to selection in Manech Tête Rousse dairy sheep” (INRAE); 4) “The correlation of substitution effects across populations and across generations” (INRAE). Poster: “Benefits of GS for meat sheep breeding programs according to the available pedigree and the level of AI” (INRAE and IDELE).
• 6^th International Conference of Quantitative Genetics (Virtual, November 2020). INRAE presentation: “Detecting unrecorded environmental challenges and evaluating genetic determinism of resilience in lambs”.
• International Congress on the Breeding of Sheep and Goats, in Bonn (Germany, 15^th – 16^th October 2020). SRUC presentations: 1) “New opportunities for genomic selection in sheep and goats”: 2) “Diversity of sheep in the UK – do we have a problem or an opportunity?”.
• 48^th Virtual Congress of Argentine Society of Genetics de la SAG (24^th September 2020). INIA-UY presentation: “Genetic evaluations of sheep in Uruguay: 20 years of experience”.
• Finnish Sheep Conference, in Ostrobotnia (Finland, 18^th – 19^th September 2020). SRUC presentations: 1) “Breeding for disease resistance and using genomics in sheep breeding”; 2) “The UK Sheep Industry”.
• ADSA 2020 Virtual Conference (22^nd – 24^th June 2020). INRAE presentations: 1) “Can metafounders improve inbreeding estimation”; 2) “Bias of dairy sheep evaluations using BLUP and SSGBLUP with metafounders and unknown parent groups”.
• National Sheep Conference, in Killarney and Kilkenney (Ireland, 28^th & 30^th January 2020). TEAGASC presentation: “Commercial data – how it benefits out breeding indexes”. Moreover, a poster was presented.
• Sheep Ireland Conference, in Portlaoise (Ireland, 17^th January 2020). TEAGASC presentations: 1) “Making life easier at the busiest time: The potential to breed for greater lamb vigour and better mothering ability”; 2) “How can twins have completely different genetics?”; 3) “How many lambs are too many?”. Moreover, two posters were presented, one titled “Can ewe get more from DNA?”. SRUC three minutes thesis: “Development of international genetic evaluations in sheep”.

2019

• X Latin American and Caribbean Encounter Agricultural Biotechnology REDBIO Uruguay and the XII REDBIO Argentina Symposium, in Montevideo (Uruguay, 12^th – 15^th November 2019). INIA-UY presentation: “¿Cómo aumentar la resistencia genética a parásitos gastrointestinales en ovinos? La estrategia de Uruguay”.
• 70^th EAAP Annual Meeting, in Ghent (Belgium, 26^th– 30^th August 2019). INIA-UY, SRUC and INRAE presentations: 1) “Evaluation of udder morphology and milk production in prolific and meat ewes”; 2) “Differences in growth between Corriedale sheep divergent lines for resistance to nematodes”; 3) “Divergent genetic selection in meat sheep for an early behavioural reactivity”; 4) “Towards value-based marketing of UK lamb”; 5) “Selection trace from runs of homozygosity in French dairy sheep”.
• AGROEXPO2019, in Bogotà (Colombia, 11^th – 21^st July 2019). INIA-UY and SRUC presentation: “Selección por resistencia genética a parásitos”.
• 37^th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference (ISAG), in Lleida (Spain, 7^th -12^th July 2019). UDEIN presentation: “Effect of genotyping strategies in the sustained genetic gain across multiple generations of selection using ssGBLUP”.
• ICAR Conference 2019 in Prague (Czech Republic, 17^th -21^st June 2019). IDELE, UNILEON, SRUC, INRAE, UEDIN, TEAGASC, EAAP, S-ICAR presentation during a technical session: “SMARTER – A European project on selection of efficiency and resilience in small ruminants with strong ICAR commitment and implication” (pp. 169-175). IDELE presentation within working group on sheep, goat and camelids (18^th June 2019): “SMARTER: a European project on selection on efficiency and resilience in small ruminants with strong ICAR commitment and implication”.
• Workshop: Mejoramiento genético ganadero en Uruguay: perspectivas y desafíos in INIA Las Brujas (Uruguay, 13^th May 2019). INIA-UY presentation: “Estado Actual de las Evaluaciones Genéticas. Current Status of Genetic evaluations”.
• SVT Tagung 2019 (yearly conference of the Swiss Association of Animal Sciences) in Strickhof Lindau (Switzerland, 16^th April 2019). FiBL and Qualitas poster: “Small ruminants breeding for efficiency and resilience (SMARTER)”.
• BSAS 75th Annual Conference in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK 9^th -11^th April 2019). SRUC presentation: “Genetic parameters of faecal egg and oocyst counts, dag scores, live weight and immunological traits in Scottish Blackface sheep”.
• Kleinwiederkäuertagung 2019 in Bern (Switzerland, 7^th March 2019). FiBL and Qualitas presentation: “Zucht auf Parasitenresistenz bei kleinen Wiederkäuern”.
• Workshop: 1^st Expo Nacional Texel in Salto (Uruguay, 5^th February 2019). INIA-UY presentation: “Propuesta de investigación genética con la raza Texel“.
• PAG Conference in San Diego (USA, 12^th -16^th January 2019). INRAE presentation: “European project SMARTER 2018-2023”

2018

• SHAWG Conference in Staffordshire (United Kingdom, 21^st November 2018). Some flyers were presented by TEXELS.
• Workshop (seminar): IV Seminario sobre Mejoramiento genético Ovino in Arapey, Salto (Uruguay, 20^th November 2018). INIA-UY presentation: “Genética contra parásitos: Resistencia y resiliencia”.