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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, July 15, 2026
  • 4-page Papers
  • Video Competition Nominees
  • 7:30 AM - 1:00 PM CT
    Poster Help Desk/Upload Hours
  • 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Registration Desk Hours
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Oral/Poster Pitch Presentation Upload Hours
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Efficiency and Sustainability 3: Innovations in Sustainability Genetics Across Livestock Species
    Chair: Caeli Richardson – AbacusBio
    Chair: Allison Fleming – Lactanet Canada
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits: From Causal Variant Discovery to Selection Signatures 2
    Chair: Wen Huang – Michigan State University
    Chair: Hao Cheng – University of California Davis
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Genetics of Resilience 3
    Chair: Luiz F. Brito, PhD – Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
    Chair: Brian W. Kirkpatrick, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Phenomics 3: Always On: Wearables, Sensors and Smart Animal Monitoring
    Chair: Tiago Bresolin, n/a – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM CT
    Estimation and Prediction 4: Genetic Parameter Estimation 2 - Sponsored by Genetics and G3
    Chair: Ignacio Aguilar, PhD – INIA Uruguay
    Chair: Gustavo de los Campos – Michigan State University
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Aquaculture 2: Improving Efficiency of Breeding
    Chair: Gareth Frank Difford, PhD – Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Diversity, Conservation and Breeding 2: The Living Library in the Genomic Era
    Chair: Ino Curik – University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture & Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences - Institute of Animal Sciences (MATE)
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Gene Function and Annotation 1
    Chair: Christa Kuehn, Prof Dr – Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Genetics of Resilience 4
    Chair: Wendy Mercedes Rauw, PhD – Dept Mejora Genética Animal, INIA-CSIC
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Software and Computing 1
    Chair: Jana Obsteter – Agricultural Institute of Slovenia
    Chair: Francisco Peñagaricano – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Mid-Conference Tours
  • 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM CT
    Mid-Conference Dinner and Party