Conferences

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

2025

• 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Innsbruck, Austria, 1–5 September 2025)
  • “Applying the RUMIGEN Methylation Array to Identify Epigenetic Markers Associated to Fetal Development during Maternal Lactation in Cattle” by CSIC-INIA.
  • “Longitudinal Analysis of DNA Methylation in Dairy Calves.” by CSIC-INIA.

• 40th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference (Daejon, South Korea, 21–26 July 2025) – “Epigenetic Biomarkers Associated to Fetal Development during Maternal Lactation Using the RUMIGEN Methylation Array” by CSIC-INIA.
• 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.
• 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.
  • A. Vinet et. al (INRAE): “Sequence-based GWAS of heat tolerance traits in Holstein and Montbeliarde cattle“.
  • J. Vandeplas et al. (WUR): “Evolution of genetic parameters of production traits and conception rate in the Dutch Holstein population“.
  • T. Meuwissen et al. (NMBU): “Linkage analysis based genomic relationships for optimum contribution selection“
  • E. Vanbergue et al. (IDELE):  “Description of the impacts of acute heat stress on dairy cows“
• 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?”

• 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.”

• 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.