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Edinburgh, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Independent Consultant at AnGeCo

Education

I have been involved with breeding throughout my life having initiated one of the longest selection experiments in mice (> 150 generations), which produced the heaviest mouse line in the World, and helped to develop also the smallest existing mouse line just by simply breeding them divergently for size. I was always fascinated by animal growth and body composition and the exploration of their genetic basis. After studying animal behaviour and physiology I have been working for over 30/15y in quantitative and molecular genetics, resp. in different species, from model animals (mice) to pigs and sheep; initially at a Research Institute in Germany, for an international pig breeding organisati...