Courses for PhD-students and postdocs

Genome-wide predictions in plant breeding: genotype-phenotype associations and genomic selection

About the course

This course has been designed for PhD students in the Organismal Biology Research School, in collaboration with the SLU Breeding Network. Experts in plant breeding at our university collaborate to answer: (1) how to associate phenotypes and genotypes, and (2) how to accelerate marker-assisted selection in the era of high throughput genome sequencing. Along this course, students will be able to review basic principles of association mapping, study in detail the bioinformatic methods available today, and do extensive hands-on work on pre-designed examples.  

When

Oct 2025 (weeks 41 and 44) at Campus Ultuna

How to apply

Register via the online registration form. Last date for application is September 15th.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0JrpSqgpdpsCm2mw3AWrdYXVlDm8oJ7KC8ThhR98PZ12jfQ/viewform?usp=header 

Course organiser

Martha Rendón, Department of Plant Biology

Plant growth analysis, nutrient use efficiency and phenotyping (6 HEC)

Course period

Autumn 2025 (start 1 Sep, end 30 Oct 2025, not full time). The course will be conducted fully online.

Preliminary detailed course schedule can be made available by the course leader upon request!

Course Leader

Martin Weih (martin.weih@slu.se)