The training of breeders and representatives of breeding organizations continued at the Seminar of Breeding Organizations in livestock production of AP Vojvodina organized by the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad as the central breeding organization. Professional lectures of the seminar were organized in Vrnjačka banja in the period from 29.05. until 01.06.2022. where the PI of the project team is assoc. professor Dr. Ljuba Štrbac held a lecture on Bioinformatics approach to dairy cattle breeding using genomic selection. The aim of the lecture was to present a web application that breeders and breeding organizations will be able to use in order to more efficiently carry out tasks related to the formation of mating plans and monitoring of production characteristics of dairy cattle.
The second part of the Seminar was organized through the workshop Application of information technologies in the implementation of breeding programs, which was held at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad from 6 to 9 June 2022. Members of the project team took an active part and organized training for representatives of the central breeding organizations with the following topics:
Dr. Ljuba Štrbac – Genetic parameters in animal breeding; Introduction to Wombat
Dr. Nebojša Dedović – Variance components estimation; Setting up the model
Dr. Doni Pracner – Databases
