Part 1 Within and across-breed genetic diversity 1.Advances in understanding and improving genetic diversity in dairy cattle: Filippo Miglior, University of Guelph, Canada 2.Advances in strategies to promote selection whilst controlling inbreeding in dairy cattle breeding programmes: Christian Maltecca, North Carolina State University, USA; 3.Advances in dairy-breed crossbreeding and outbreeding in dairy cattle: Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos, Massey University, New Zealand; 4.Advances in beef-on-dairy crossbreeding: Luiz F. Brito, Purdue University, USA; 5.Challenges and opportunities in developing dual/multi-purpose dairy breeds: Johann Sölkner, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria; 6.Future dairy cow breeding scheme designs: Morten Kargo, Aarhus University, Denmark; Part 2 Advances in genomics and phenomics 7.
Advances in phenomic technologies in dairy cattle: Gareth Difford, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway; 8.Advances in phenomics from milk to deliver genetic gain in difficult to measure traits in dairy cattle: Maria Frizzarin, Irish Cattle Breeders Foundation, Ireland; 9.Developments in statistical techniques for analysing multi-level omic data in dairy breeding: Daniela A. L. Lourenco, University of Georgia, USA; 10.Advances in genomic functional annotation techniques to improve genomic prediction in dairy cattle: Yansen Chen, University of Liège, Belgium; 11.Advances in understanding and detection of informative genomic polymorphisms/haplotypes in dairy cattle genetics: Didier Boichard, INRAE, France; 12.Advances in gene editing techniques for dairy cattle: Alison Van Eenennaam, University of California-Davis, USA; Part 3 Leveraging 'omics' technologies 13.
Advances in microbiome-driven approaches in dairy cattle: Oscar Gonzalez-Recio, INIA Madrid, Spain; 14.Advances in metabolomics in dairy cattle genetics: Luca Fontanesi, University of Bologna, Italy; 15.Advances in transcriptomics in dairy cattle genetics: Haja Kadarmideen, Aarhus University, Denmark; 16.Advances in nutrigenetics/nutrigenomics in dairy cattle genetics: Juan J. Loor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; 17.Advances in epigenomics in understanding intergenerational gene transfer in dairy cattle: Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada; Part 4 Applications 18.Advances in breeding indices for dairy cattle: John Cole, Council for Dairy Cattle Breeding, USA; 19.
Advances in breeding for improved feed efficiency in dairy cattle: Mike Coffey, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK; 20.Advances in breeding strategies for environmental efficiency in dairy cattle: Eileen Wall, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK; 21.Advances in breeding for improved milk production/quality traits in dairy cattle: Giulio Visentin, University of Bologna, Italy; 22.Advances in breeding for improved heat/humidity tolerance in dairy cattle: Peter Hansen, University of Florida, USA; 23.Advances in breeding for improved health in dairy cattle: Georgios Oikonomou, University of Liverpool, UK; 24.Advances in breeding for reproductive efficiency in dairy cattle: Matthew Lucy, University of Missouri, USA; 25.Advances in breeding for calving performance in dairy cattle: Chad Dechow, The Pennsylvania State University, USA; 26.Advances in breeding for improved longevity in dairy cattle: Albert De Vries, University of Florida, USA;.