Partner 16 - Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NULS)

AUN has a long standing reputation for its quantitative genetics and animal breeding research, and has more recently become (inter-) nationally renowned for its molecular genetics and livestock genomics research. The latter has resulted in that the Norwegian Functional Genomics (FUGE; www.fuge.no) initiative established the CIGENE platform (www.cigene.no) at the AUN premises. This and other research activities made the molecular lab at AUN very well equipped with instruments to perform high-throughput molecular genetic studies, including a MassARRAy system integrated with several molecular biology workstations (BeckmanFX; Multimek96) and other high throughput equipment for extraction (Biorobot M48) and quantification (Victor3) of DNA, DNA sequencing and microsatellite analysis (ABI3730). The equipment is embedded in a Labaratory Information Management System (LIMS). The personnel and equipment form together an efficient high throughput SNP marker detection and genotyping pipeline. Prof. Sigbjorn Lien has extensive experience in the detection and fine-scale mapping of QTL, and will be responsible for the molecular genetics analyses of Norwegian Red Cattle in Task 10.1. Prof. Theo Meuwissen’s research has contributed substantially to the statistical techniques available for the fine-scale mapping of QTL, and to the methods used for Marker-Assisted selection, and Genomic Selection.

Involved in:
Operations Management Group
WP10 (Lead)

Key staff in SABRE:
Prof. Theo Meuwissen – AUN-SABRE Coordinator and WP10 Leader
Prof. Sigbjorn Lien – WP10

Contact Details:
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Institute of Animal and Agricultural Sciences
PO Box 5003
Arboretveien 6
As
1432
Norway

Tel:  +47 6496 5107
Fax: +47 6496 5101

www.umb.no