Conferences

RUMIGEN representatives will attend conferences, during these events, the latest project developments and progress results will be presented to the audience.

2026

• PAG 2026 — Plant & Animal Genome Conference XXXIV (San Diego, Usa — January 10–14, 2026). “A Cattle Pangenome Approach Reveals Novel Non-Reference Unique Insertions And Their Impact On Economic Traits” by INRAE.

2025

• 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Innsbruck, Austria, 1–5 September 2025)
  1. “Applying the RUMIGEN Methylation Array to Identify Epigenetic Markers Associated to Fetal Development during Maternal Lactation in Cattle” by CSIC-INIA
  2. “Longitudinal Analysis of DNA Methylation in Dairy Calves” by CSIC-INIA
  3. “Further characterization of the structural variant upstream of the KIT gene underlying head depigmentation across a diverse panel of cattle breeds” by INRAE
  4. “Detecting genetic load: A GWAS model accounting for identity by descent” by WUR

1. ISAG 2025 — 41ST INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL GENETICS CONFERENCE (GALWAY, IRELAND — JULY 27–AUGUST 1, 2025) – “Application of Variation Graphs for Genotyping Structural Variants in 14 French Cattle Breeds” by INRAE.
2. Jornadas Sobre Producción Animal 2025 (Zaragoza, Spain, May 2025) – “HACIA LAS EVALUACIONES POST-GENÓMICAS: USO DE INFORMACIÓN EPIGENÉTICA EN PROGRAMAS DE MEJORA” (ES) by CSIC-INIA.
3. Grand Angle Lait conference (Paris, France, 3rd April 2025) – “Adaptation des bovins laitiers aux températures élevées et au stress thermique. Que peut apporter le levier génétique?” (FR) by IDELE.

2024

•  Journées 3R biennial congress (Paris, 4th December 2024)- “The effect of heat stress on dairy cattle performance” (FR) by IDELE and INRAE.
• EurSafe 2024 (Wageningen, Netherlands, 12 September 2024) – “Closing the Gap (2): A Decision-Making Council for Animal Welfare” by DBT.
• The 75th EAAP Conference took place in Florence, Italy, September 1-5, 2024.
  1. A. Vinet et. al (INRAE): “Sequence-based GWAS of heat tolerance traits in Holstein and Montbeliarde cattle“
  2. J. Vandeplas et al. (WUR): “Evolution of genetic parameters of production traits and conception rate in the Dutch Holstein population“
  3. T. Meuwissen et al. (NMBU): “Linkage analysis based genomic relationships for optimum contribution selection“
  4. E. Vanbergue et al. (IDELE): “Dairy cows’ diversity of responses to heat stress: between resilience and adaptation“
  5. M. Calus et al. (WUR): “Considering variances and correlations of offspring breeding values shows beneficial effects on genetic gain and antagonistic correlations”
  6. T. Meuwissen et al. (NMBU): “Using Alternative Relationship Matrices for Genomic Prediction and Managing Genetic Diversity”
• 40th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference (Daejon, South Korea, July 28 – August 2, 2024):
  1. “Epigenetic Biomarkers Associated to Fetal Development during Maternal Lactation Using the RUMIGEN Methylation Array” by CSIC-INIA.
  2. “Constructing haplotype-separated assemblies for Norwegian Red cattle” by NMBU.
• 7th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics (ICQG) (Vienna, Austria, 25th July 2024): Presentation titled: “Altered Prior Mean of Allelic Eects: An Approach for Adequately Considering Gene Edited Variants within Genomic Predictions” by  WUR.
• General Assembly of Montbéliarde Association (Pirey, France, April 17, 2024). Presentation titled: “Adaptation au changement climatique : vers une sélection de bovins français résistants à la chaleur” by Roxane Vallée (IDELE).
• Conference “Le bâtiment d’élevage, point de rencontre entre l’homme et l’animal” (Rennes, France, February 14, 2024). Presentation titled: “Les performances de production laitière et de reproduction des vaches laitières sont dégradéesen cas de stress thermique” by IDELE & INRAE.

2023

• Groupe Evaluation et Diffusion des Index Laitiers (online, 16 November, 2023). Presentation by Roxane Vallée (IDELE).
• 31st International Symposium Animal Science Days (Lipica, Slovenia, 20-22 September 2023). Read more.
• The 74th EAAP Conference took place in Lyon, France, August 31- September 1, 2023.

1. 1. J. Vandeplas et al. (WUR): “Evaluation of heat stress effects on production traits and somatic cell score of Dutch Holstein cows”
   2. R. Bonifazi et al. (WUR): “Impact of genomic selection on genetic diversity in 5 European local cattle breeds”
   3. M. Schrauf et al. (WUR): “Genomic selection strategies and their potential to maintain rare alleles and de-novo mutations”
   4. S. Mattalia et al. (IDELE): “RUMIGEN : New breeding tools in a context of climate change: I mpact of heat stress on the performances of dairy cows at the population level”
   5. M.J. Carabaño (CSIC-INIA): “Should we consider fertility when improving thermotolerance in dairy cattle?”
   6. H. Kiefer et al. (INRAE): “A capture-based approach for DNA methylation analysis in cattle”
   7. B.C.D. Cuyabano et al. (INRAE): “Changes in genetic correlations over generations due to selection and random drift“
   8. A. Vinet et al. (INRAE): “Trade-off between fertility and production in French dairy cattle in the context of climate change”

• ICAR Conference, Toledo, Spain, May 21-26 , 2023.

Maria Carabaño (CSIC-INIA) et al. presented “Towards new breeding tools in a context of climate change: fertility results of the RUMIGEN project on new phenotypes for heat tolerance traits.”

• Jornadas Sobre Producción Animal 2023 (Zaragoza, Spain, May 16, 2023) – “Comparative of nanopore and bisulfite sequencing in the detection of methylation marks on the dairy cattle epigenome” by CSIC-INIA.
• General Assembly of the Calvados Holstein Syndicate (Vire, France, 3 February 2023). Presentation “Adaptation au changement climatique : vers une sélection de bovins français résistants à la chaleur” by Roxane Vallée (IDELE).

2022

• Assemblée Générale Eleveurs de Savoie, Marigny Saint Marcel, (France)  (8th December 2022). ELIANCE presented: “Pourras-t-on d’ici 10 ans prédire les performances des animaux grâce à l’épigénétique ?” (FR). Video.
• Comité Scientifique et Technique Elevage CNIEL, was held in Paris, France on 19th October 2022. INRAE, IDELE e ELIANCE presented: “Tolérance des vaches laitières à la chaleur : projets de recherche en cours et à construire” (FR).
• Groupe Evaluation et Diffusion des Index Laitiers (online, 22 September, 2022). Presentation : “Tolérance des vaches laitières à la chaleur: présentation des travaux conduits dans le cadre des projets CAICalor et Rumigen“by Roxane Vallée (IDELE).
• Assemblée Générale Eleveurs de Savoie, France  (12th August 2022). ELIANCE presented: “Pourras-t-on d’ici 10 ans prédire les performances des animaux grâce à l’épigénétique ?” (FR).
• WCGALP was held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 3rd – 8th July 2022. INRAE, IDELE, presented a poster: “Genotype by temperature-humidity index interactions on milk production and udder health traits in the Montbeliarde cows“. The corresponding scientific paper is also available here.
• ICAR Interbull Meeting, was held in Montreal, Canada from 30th May – 3rd June 2022. IDELE, IRIAF and CSIC-INIA, WUR, INRAE presented a poster: “Towards new breeding tools in a context of climate change: first results of the RUMIGEN project on new phenotypes for heat tolerance traits”.
• Illumina’s ‘Epigenetics – the full picture’ 2022 virtual event was held online on 25th-28th April 2022.INRAE introduced the RUMIGEN epichip.