Functional Breeding

Functional Breeding


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News from our departement

  • 2025.03.06 Fakulta╠êt fu╠êr Agrarwissenschaften - DNTW 7376

    Project starts


    Molekulare und genomische Charakterisierung der Hybridisierung zwischen Ziegen und Schafen: Die Hybridisierung unter Säugetieren ist ein evolutionärer Mechanismus zur Artbildung. In dem Projekt werden ein weiblicher Ziege-Schaf-Hybrid...mehr


    Our successor project QTCCm is underway. The aim of the project is the genomic analysis of the correlation and causality between quantitative traits in dairy cattle breeding, taking into account transcriptome and metabolome data.


    Our department is a partner in the joint project agri:change - Zukunft durch Wandel

    agri:change - Zukunft durch Wandel
  • Abschlussarbeit

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    CiBreed Workshop 2025 in October

    Join the 6th CiBreed Fall Workshop – The BIG, the Small, the Unexpected: Perspectives of Breeding Research. For registration or submitting abstracts...


    Documentary: Farms - Family, Economy, Change

    The sustainable transformation of the agricultural and food industry is one of the greatest challenges of our time—multifaceted, complex, and full of contradictions. The "Agricultural Transformations" project, funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture, has resulted in a documentary film exploring this field of tension, which also features our project Rewali In cinema> MÉLIÈS


    New Employees

    We warmly welcome our new employee Uma Sai Teja Yarra, who will be working on the GTCCm project starting August 1, 2025.


    Current Theses

    There are currently exciting thesis topics available on the topic of "Genomics in Horses."

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    Current positions

    We are currently looking for a student assistant (m/f/d).

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    We are currently looking for a master fisherman (m/f/d) for our working groupAquaculture.

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    Current news for teaching

    One-time project study for MSc and PhD students on the usage of AI

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  • 2025.03.06 Fakulta╠êt fu╠êr Agrarwissenschaften - DNTW 7419

    Current publications

    New results on the genomic background of milk yield and reproductive traits in German Holstein cattle published.








Contact
Department of Animal Sciences
Division of Functional Breeding
Burckhardtweg 2
37077 Göttingen

Phone: 0551-39 28574
Fax: 0551-39 33381
Email: fu.bre@uni-goettingen.de
Office visiting hours:
Mo.-Th. 8:00-16:00, Fr. 8:00-13:00