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From: Pau Navarro <Pau.Navarroed.ac.uk>
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Subject: New Breeding and Genetics online postgraduate programme
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:39:05 -0500
Dear colleagues,
We are excited to announce the launch of our new postgraduate online
programme in Data-Driven Breeding and Genetics, set to begin in September
2025. This programme is led by academics from The Roslin Institute and the
Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems at the University of
Edinburgh.
Our programme is part-time and thus offers flexible learning paths, from
individual credit-bearing PPD courses a full MSc, catering to the diverse
needs of professionals seeking to upskill in the field without having to
leave their current positions.
Full information on the programme and how to apply is available here:
http://edin.ac/...en-breeding-genetics
We would appreciate if you could help us disseminate this information to
those that might benefit from it.
For enquiries, you can reach us at DDBGed.ac.uk
In brief:
This is a globally-unique online programme that will train the next
generation of breeders and geneticists in the statistical and computational
skills to design and implement sustainable genetic improvement programmes
for key aquacultural and agricultural animal and plant species across
global food systems, raw material, heat, and power production.
The programme will equip graduates with practical, applied statistical and
computational skills to manage, analyse and interpret large, real-world
data and address context-specific genetic challenges using specialised
skills in genetics, data science, and underpinning technologies.
By bringing together animal and plant species, this programme opens-up
career prospects.
By engaging with colleagues in industry and institutions such as ILRI and
CTLGH, the programme will give a diverse range of global perspectives and
representation of systems across Global North and South and prepare
students with key transferable skills valued by employers.
Graduates from this programme will be equipped to address the shortage of
data scientists in the Agri-Tech sector globally and locally, strengthening
the pipeline into industry research and development, academia, governmental
and non-governmental organisations (GOs and NGOs) amongst others, and will
serve as advocates for the importance of coordinated international efforts
in tackling global challenges equitably.
Thank you very much for your support with dissemination.
Pau
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Pau Navarro, PhD, SFHEA My pronouns are she/her
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Genetics and Group Leader
Data-Driven Breeding and Genetics programme director
The Roslin Institute and the Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems,
University of Edinburgh
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