Quantitative genetics

Permanent full-time associate professorship in population genetics and plant breeding at the Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biosciences, NMBU, focused on forage crops. The successful candidate is expected to build an internationally competitive research group in population genetics and plant breeding, with emphasis on quantitative genetics and breeding methods, contributing to sustainable agriculture and future food security, and to teach and supervise bachelor's, master's and PhD students in plant genetics, population genetics and plant breeding. Salary NOK 720,000-1,100,000 (code 1

The 2027 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Gordon Research Conference, "Use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Quantitative Genetics", starts from the observation that linear models remain the bedrock of quantitative genetics, used to estimate genetic parameters and build prediction models such as polygenic risk scores, while machine learning and AI have transformed simulation, complex data analysis and prediction elsewhere but remain little used in the field. The meeting debates whether there are fundamental reasons for this and what ML and AI can offer for simulating genomes