The Conifer Translational Genomics Network Coordinated Agricultural Project offered an intensive, five-day shortcourse on genomics in plant breeding and gene-resource management. The course, organized in module format, provided detailed overviews of genomics-based breeding strategies (e.g. MAS / MAB) and gene-resource management through lectures and interactive learning (computer exercises). Modules addressd topics such as population and quantitative genetics; molecular population genomics; genetic, QTL, and association mapping; genomics-assisted breeding; and genomic applications in gene-resource and ecosystem management.

Graduate students, post-doctoral scientists, breeders, and gene-resource managers were invited to register for the course. There were no formal prerequisites, but prospective participants should have been generally familiar with topics such as population and evolutionary genetics, molecular and quantitative genetics, genecology, or plant breeding.

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