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Joint RUMIGEN and GEroNIMO session at EAAP 2025
📅 28 August | 📍Innsbruck, Austria
Join us at the 76th EAAP for a joint RUMIGEN and GEroNIMO session titled “From genomic applications to Societal perception”
More information cooming soon!
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Únete al evento GEroNIMO Stakeholder
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EcoGen Cluster Webinar Series: “Transforming Livestock Systems Through Integrated Research”
The first webinar in the EcoGen series sets the stage for interdisciplinary collaboration by introducing the EcoGen Cluster and its five pioneering projects.
Date: 6 March 2025, 11.00-12.30 CET
Format: Online Webinar
Who Should Attend? Researchers, livestock advisors, professionals, policymakers, and students interested in cutting-edge livestock innovation. -
GEroNIMO Stakeholder Event
The GEroNIMO project invites you to attend the stakeholder event on the 7th June 2024, at the Sala de Conferências, conveniently located at Polo da Mitra, Edifício MED, from 10:35 to 14:30.
You will have the opportunity to gain invaluable insights into the GEroNIMO project’s potential impact on poultry and pig breeding and production throughout Europe.
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Final GENE-SWitCH Conference
Policy and Ethics Workshop
The final conference of the Horizon 2020 project GENE-SWitCH will be held in Brussels from 6 to 8 November 2023 at the University Foundation. The conference is a hybrid event where the attendees may participate in presence or remotely.
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Limits of genetic intervention: Solving problems of cage-free housing
Description goes hereo discuss the limits of conventional selection methods and opportunities for novel strategies, Dr. Michael Toscano (University of Bern, CH) will be organizing a workshop (Friday, 10. November, 13.30-15.15) immediately following the 2023 European Symposium on Poultry Genetics in Hannover, Germany. Lectures will be provided on the topic from Dr. Toscano and Ms. Pauline Willemsen (Hendrix Genetics, NL) followed by an open discussion of the topic.
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Genotype-to-phenotype research across Europe & beyond
We are glad to announce that GEroNIMO will participate in the EuroFAANG scientific session at the upcoming EAAP conference titled: “Genotype-to-phenotype research across Europe and beyond", on Thursday, 31 August in Lyon, France.
For further details and registration, click here.
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Training: “Crossing perspectives about eggs: from production to food science”
The Institut Agro organizes a training on “Perspectives about eggs: from production to food science”. The deadline for registration is until 30th of June but it can be extended a bit.
Travel and accommodation supported by Erasmus+ scholarship.
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Press release: EuroFAANG research infrastructure is on track
Successfully approved by the EU, the new EuroFAANG Research Infrastructure (RI) project now thrives on developing a concept for a formalised infrastructure for farmed animal G2P research in Europe (EuroFAANG).
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Save the date: GEroNIMO stakeholder event
Exciting news! Join us at the stakeholder event for GEroNIMO project, focused on sustainable animal breeding.
This meeting will be held on the 28th of June in Bern, Switzerland, Aviforum; address: Burgerweg 22, 3052 Zollikofen.
Marie José Mercat's intervention at Journées de la Recherche Porcine
Date 22nd March 2023
Marie-José Mercat (IFIP – Institut du Porc) took part during the 55th edition of the Journées de la Recherche Porcine between January and February 2023 in Saint-Malo (France), where she talked about the perceptions of stakeholders involved in preserving local breeds.
Click on the image and watch it!
Meet the people behind GEroNIMO project!
Date 16th January 2023
In our last blogpost, the Coordination Team tells you an overview of 2022 and welcomes this exciting year for GEroNIMO.
Check out and stay tuned for the last news of the project.
Date 15th July 2022
On the 3rd of July 2022, GEroNIMO and GENE-SWitCH hosted a joint stakeholder event preceding WCGALP titled: “Bitcoins or Genomics: Which brings more?”. Together with scientists from both projects, we discovered themes like animal breeding, functional annotation, genomics and the challenges in our society. We are delighted to share with you that the recording of this event is now available on our YouTube Channel!
Press Release May 2022
Date 15th May 2022
Fábio Pértille and Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna (Uppsala University, Sweden), members of the GEroNIMO H2020 project, together with collaborators from international research institutions, have recently published a methodological article on Star Protocols (Cell Press) that describes the GBS-MeDIP protocol, a novel procedure for parallel investigation of DNA methylation and genomic changes in fractions of the genomes of many animals at the same time.
Click here to read more.
GEroNIMO Hackathon: register now!
Date 10th March 2022
On the 6th and 24th of May GEroNIMO will organize a hackathon on the contribution of new genomics technologies (NGT) to sustainable and efficient pig and chicken production. The hackathon is organized as an online event for Master and PhD students from different European Universities and all academic backgrounds.
Session 1: 6th of May, 13:00 – 17:00 CET
Session 2: 24th of May, 17:00 – 20:00 CET
For more information on the hackathon and how to register, visit the dedicated hackathon page on this website!
Scientific terms for everyone
Date 7th March 2022
In most Horizon 2020 projects, the vocabulary is often very much influenced by scientific terms, specific ways of expressing a situation, impact, or a specific scientific area in general. For us, it is highly important that people outside the labs and libraries understand what is going on, and what a scientific term means. Scientific terms like “DNA Methylation” are not common for the wider citizens of Europe. We want to change this.
Video with Andrea Rau on coding
We have discovered a series of scientific terms used in our scientific publications, general content, online debates, and discussions. These are words that the European Union also uses when publishing news, legislation, and policy updates from time to time. Over the next 10 weeks, we will explain a series of scientific terms. Explanations will come from a mix of scientists connected to the project with creative animations explaining what the term means and why it is used in relation to EuroFAANG.
We hope you will enjoy the videos, share them with your network and learn with us!
WCGALP 2022 joint event
Date 30rd November 2021
The Horizon 2020 project GEroNIMO has started. We are therefore very happy that you find your way to our website, welcome!
This website will be your first point of contact when you want to stay updated on latest news, events and scientific publications from GEroNIMO. The project is already taking shape and soon we will share some interesting insights from both in and outside the lab.
We are 21 dedicated partners from across Europe that will work towards more sustainable animal breeding and find more evidence to ensure efficient resource use and better animal health and welfare while preserving genetic diversity.
On this website, you can find all the details about the project. We invite you to read more about the project here and explore how GEroNIMO will create an impact here.
