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FGE organizes the 30th Annual International Meeting of Interbull

From August 23th to 25th 2013, France Génétique Elevage will host the 30th Annual International Meeting of Interbull in Nantes, France. It will be held as a satellite event beside the Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP - August 26 to 30 2013). More than 180 registrants from 40 countries to participate in this major event.

Organized by France Génétique Elevage, the French member of Interbull, in collaboration with the Institut de l’Elevage and with financial support from FranceAgriMer, this conference is a reference for national and international research on genetic and genomic bovine evaluations and welcome nearly 200 sector leaders, from 35 countries.

The registration and accommodation booking are possible on the Interbull website here

The program with 67 scientific interventions is online here

Contact: interbull2013@france-genetique-elev...

Interbull is an international non-profit organization founded in 1983 aiming at standardizing methods for comparison of bulls between countries. As a neutral organization, it ensures reliable methods for comparing breeding values as direct comparisons are impossible (difference of evaluation methods, of measurement units, ...).

In 1988, with the support of EAAP (European Association for Animal Production), IDF (International Dairy Federation) and FAO Interbull became a permanent subcommittee of ICAR (International Committee for Animal Recording). Since 1991, its operational center is in Sweden, Uppsala.

In 1994 and 1995, Interbull made the first international genetic evaluations with the participation of eight countries, including France. Nowadays 30 countries participate in these international breeding evaluations, for 6 races and 40 characters (milk production, morphology, udder health, fertility, longevity ...).

Until recently international genetic evaluation were specifically targeting dairy cattle breeds. Through the Interbeef project, this service is now open to beef breeds as well.

In addition to these services, Interbull provides technical support and foster information exchange among its country members through the organization’s annual conference, workshops on specific themes (fertility, genomics ...), the distribution of its newsletters and its website.

For 10 years, Interbull is recognized by the European Commission and zootechnical regulations of the European Union as the reference laboratory for genetic evaluation.

The French representative to the Interbull Steering Committee is Sophie Mattalia of Institut de l’Elevage.