Course summary

Research in the field of Genetics and Genomics aims to advance understanding of complex animal systems and the development of improved predictive models through the application of numerical and computational approaches to the analysis of DNA. This includes analyses and interpretation, modelling, and prediction of complex animal systems at multiple levels, from the sequence and behaviour of DNA and other molecules, through cellular and gene networks, tissues and organs right up to whole organisms and interacting populations of organisms. The biology and traits of interest include:

• growth and development

• body composition

• feed efficiency

• reproductive performance

• greenhouse gas emissions

• responses to infectious disease

• inherited diseases

• cattle

• pigs

• poultry

• sheep

• farmed fish such as salmon

• companion animals

• genetics (molecular, quantitative)

• physiology (neuroendocrinology, immunology)

• ‘omics (genomics, functional genomics)

• with particular strengths in mathematical biology (quantitative genetics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, modelling)