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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Animal Breeding, Animal Nutrition, Animal Husbandry,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology,Evolutionary Cell and Developmental Biology (Zoology) |
| Keywords | Bayesian statistics, quasi-continuous traits, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, recursive models, semi-parametric models |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Madison |
| Institution | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Institute | Department of Animal Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Henner Simianer | Institut für Tierzucht und Haustiergenetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2008 |
Programme(s)
| 2007 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Gianola is an international authority in the field of quantitative animal breeding and statistical genetics. In the last twenty years, he single-handedly brought Bayesian statistical methods to the field of animal breeding. Today, Bayesian methods are widely accepted as a most powerful conceptual framework and have been applied to various fields of animal genetics and elsewhere. In Germany, Professor Gianola will expand his research on the use of semi-parametric and machine learning procedures for prediction of genetic value for quantitative traits using massive molecular information. |