XIXth EUCARPIA Biometrics in Plant Breeding Conference is a leading conference focusing on the theory and application of biometrics, statistical and quantitative genetics to plant breeding and an opportunity to learn from the leading minds in modern plant breeding.

It is a single-session conference with both invited and selected talks and attracts around 250 participants, including academics, students, and industry representatives.

There is scheduled time for discussions during breaks, the poster session, the science discussion afternoon, and the conference dinner.

A satellite workshop will be hosted on stochastic simulations of breeding programmes (including genomic and phenotype data (trials), and the analysis of such) using the R packages AlphaSimR and FieldSimR.

There will be nine sessions and it is expected that each session will have one plenary and four contributed talks.

• Gary Ailin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  Impact of biometrics in public and private breeding programs

• Rosemary Bailey, University of St Andrews
  Design of experiments and multi-environment trials

• Pascal Schopp, KWS Group
  Genetic and genomic modelling of plant breeding data

• Hao Cheng, UC Davis
  Innovative models with unconventional data streams

• Andrea Wilson, University of Edinburgh, Roslin Institute,
  Genotype performance, stability and resilience

• Steven Penfield, John Innes Centre
  Modelling and leveraging genotype by environment interaction

•  María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez, University of Vigo
  High-throughput phenotyping

• Julian Taylor, University of Adelaide
  Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in practice

• Keith Gardner, CIMMYT
  Managing genetic diversity and maximising long-term genetic gains

Content, timing and other related elements of the Symposium programme are subject to change.

Registration Closes: 15th August