Functional Annotation is a way of organising and understanding the vast amount of information contained in a genome, and it’s an essential tool for scientists

Han Mulder presents his activities as Associate Professor of Animal Breeding and Genomics at the Wageningen University & Research and explains his role within RUMIGEN project.

Lars Klüver presents his activities as Director of the Teknologirådet – Danish Board of Technology and explains his role within RUMIGEN project.

Oscar Gonzalez Recio shows his activities as Senior Scientist at INIA, Madrid (Spain), and explains his role within RUMIGEN project!

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Hi, my name is Rasmus, and I am a project manager at the Danish Board of Technology.

On the 1st – 2nd of September the Danish Board of Technology and Wageningen University held a joint workshop in Copenhagen, which brought together 18 stakeholders and RUMIGEN partners, representing farmers, breeders, consumers, animal welfare advocates, researchers, and ethicists.

A Post-doctoral position on epigenetic footprints of environmental changes and epigenetic inheritance is available within the European project GEroNIMO.

One of the objectives of the RUMIGEN WP5 activity 3 is to compare the relative efficiency of introducing a favorable allele from a Norwegian goat breed into the Alpine breed by gene introgression or genome editing, while preserving the specific traits of these animals.

FAO is hosting a high-level panel discussion as a side-event to the main COAG event on innovation in agriculture.