Borghild Hillestad, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences will defend her PhD thesis: Inbreeding determined by the amount of homozygous regions in the genome, on 29 May 2015.
Norwegian title of thesis:
Innavl bestemt av mengden homozygoti i genomet
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
Sustainable animal breeding - Selection and Genetic diversity
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Friday 29 May at 12:15
Auditorium H109, Husdyrfagbygningen, Arboretveien 6, Ås
Supervisors:
Professor Gunnar Klemetsdal, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences (Main supervisor)
Professor Theodorus Meuwissen, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences (Co-supervisor)
Professor Dag Inge Våge, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, (Co-supervisor)
Professor John Arthur Woolliams, The University of Edinburgh, The Roslin Institute / NMBU (Co-supervisor)
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Dr. Beatriz Villanueva, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, SPAIN
Second opponent: Dr. Anders Christian Sørensen, Aarhus University, DENMARK
Coordinator: Associate professor Tormod Ådnøy, NMBU, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2015:14, ISSN 1894-6402, ISBN 978-82-575-1287-3