PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Siri Furre, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences will defend her PhD thesis: "Genetic analyses of performance traits in the Nordic riding horse populations and the possibilities of future joint genetic evaluation", on 11 December 2015.
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Genetiske analyser av prestasjonsegenskaper i de nordiske ridehestpopulasjonene og muligheter for felles avlsverdivurdering"
English title of thesis:
"Genetic analyses of performance traits in the Nordic riding horse populations and the possibilities of future joint genetic evaluation"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
"Development of horse breeding in times of structural changes and accessibility of genomic technology"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
Friday, December 11th at 12:15
Auditorium H109, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Scientist Dr. Kathrin Friederike Stock, Vit-Vereinigte Informationssysteme Tierhalten, Germany
Second opponent: Associate Professor Bart Ducro, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Coordinator: Professor Gunnar Klemetsdal, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, NMBU
Supervisors:
Professor Odd Vangen, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, NMBU (Main supervisor)
Researcher Dr. Bjørg Heringstad, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, NMBU (Co-supervisor)
Professor emeritus Jan Philipsson, Swedish Agricultural University (Co-supervisor)
The doctoral thesis is available for public review at the NMBU library.
Thesis number 2015:99 ISSN 1894-6402 ISBN 978-82-575-1332-0.