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Subject: 2019 Arthur B. Chapman Lectures in Animal Breeding
and Genetics
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:03:54 -0500
2019 Arthur B. Chapman Lectures in Animal Breeding and Genetics
Dr. Bruce Walsh – University of Arizona, USA
The 2019 Arthur B. Chapman Lectures in Animal Breeding and Genetics at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison will be presented on May 01 (Wednesday),
2019 by Professor Bruce Walsh.
Dr. J. Bruce Walsh attended the University of California at Davis, where he
obtained a BS in Mathematical Population Biology, the University of
Washington where he received a PhD in Genetics (under Joe Felsenstein), and
the University of Chicago He has given numerous short courses in
quantitative genetics around the globe, having taught in 25 countries to
over 5,000 students who represent in excess of 60 countries. He also
founded the Tucson Plant Breeding Institute, which offers one of the
world’s leading courses in Plant Quantitative Genetics, and was a
cofounder of the African Plant Breeding Academy. He has also taught biology
and genetics to over 15,000 undergraduates at Arizona. Finally, he is an
avid Lepidopterist (moth collector), having described two dozen new species
of Arizona moths and is co-founder of the Lep course, an internationally-
recognized field course in Lepidoptera identification and biology.
May 1st (Wednesday) 8:50 a.m., Room 212, Animal Science Building: ‘A
Short History of Quantitative Genetics’
May 1st (Wednesday) 12:05 p.m., Room 209, Animal Science Building: ‘Using
Information from Natural Populations to Improve Plant and Animal
Breeding’
The A.B. Chapman Lectures in Animal Breeding and Genetics have been
presented annually since 1994 by leading world scholars in the various
fields related to genetic improvement of livestock. Previous A.B. Chapman
Lecturers have been:
Dr. Brian W. Kennedy (Canada, 1994); Dr. Jean-Louis Foulley (France, 1995);
Prof. William G. Hill (United Kingdom, 1996); Dr. Brian P. Kinghorn
(Australia, 1997); Dr. R. Leyden Baker (Kenya, 1998); Dr. Louis Ollivier
(France, 1999); Prof. Morris Soller (Israel, 2000); Dr. Laurie Piper
(Australia, 2001); Prof. Max. F. Rothschild (Iowa State University, 2002);
Prof. James F. Crow (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003); Prof. L. Dale
Van Vleck (USDA and University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2004); Prof. Jack C.
M. Dekkers (Iowa State University, 2005); Prof. E. John Pollak (Cornell
University, 2006); Prof. Leo Dempfle (Germany, 2007); Prof. Agustin Blasco
(Spain, 2008); Prof. Miguel A. Toro (Spain, 2009); Prof. Daniel Sorensen
(Denmark, 2010); Prof. Trudy Mackay (North Carolina State University,
2011); Prof. Dorian Garrick (Iowa State University, 2012); Prof. Henner
Simianer (Germany, 2013); Prof. Jeremy Taylor (University of Missouri,
2014); Prof. Alison L. Van Eenennaam (University of California, 2015);
Prof. Michael E. Goddard (University of Melbourne, 2016); Prof. Noelle
Cockett (Utah State University, 2017); Prof. William M. Muir (Purdue
University, 2018).
Video recordings from past A. B. Chapman lectures are posted at
http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/chapman/index.htm
The A. B. Chapman lectures are financially supported by the A. B. Chapman
Fund, University of Wisconsin Foundation. Tax deductible contributions to
the A. B. Chapman Fund can be made at: http://www.supportuw.org/.
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Guilherme J. M. Rosa
University of Wisconsin-Madison
436 Animal Science Building
1675 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Phone: + 1 (608) 265-8617
Fax: + 1 (608) 263-9412
E-mail: grosawisc.edu
Webpage: http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/...cultypages/rosa.html
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