May 21 –22 , 2025
Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

C. F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus

Course in English
3 ECTS (to graduate students) for attendance
and submission of a final report

The training school in computational genetics
is specifically tailored for plant biologists,
and open to early-career researchers, PhD
students, and postdocs with basic knowledge of
R and shell scripting.

Program

Wednesday, May 21st

• R and the command line
• Principles of experimental design
• Introduction to quantitative genetics
• Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
• Population stratification in genetic studies

Thursday, May 22nd

• Functional annotations
• From variant effect to genome-wide
  prediction
• Model performance via cross-validation
• Genomic variance partition

Instructors
Assist. Prof. Guillaume Ramstein, ramstein@qgg.au.dk
Assist. Prof. Marta Malinowska, m.malinowska@qgg.au.dk
Assist. Prof. Elesandro Bornhofen, bornhofen@qgg.au.dk
From Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics - QGG, Aarhus University, Denmark

Registration
Registration is free. Deadline is March 21 , 2025
There are 15 participant spots, including 7 travel grants. Travel grants are available for selected
participants from COST and neighboring countries
For registration, please visit https://www.recrop-cost.com/Conference#training-school

Note
Attendees are expected to bring their own computers to the training school

Please find PDF below for more info.