EUCARPIA 2025 Biometrics in Plant Breeding Conference & Satellite Workshop

This is a repository hosting public information for the EUCARPIA 2025 Biometrics conference that will take place in Edinburgh 17-19th September 2025. The conference website incorporating this information is in development.

Venue for the conference:

• The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE)
• https://www.rcpe.ac.uk
• https://maps.app.goo.gl/73jkUjuGj2oSzkX17

In addition to the conference we will host a Satellite workshop on using AlphaSimR & FieldSimR R packages; 15-16th September 2025. Workshop instructors: Chris Gaynor, Daniel Tolhurst, and Gregor Gorjanc. See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AlphaSimR/index.html and https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/FieldSimR/index.html.

Venue for the satellite workshop:

• The Easter Bush Campus of The University of Edinburgh (which hosts The Roslin Institute, The Royal Dick School of Veterinary Medicine, The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, and a range of startups and established businesses)
• https://www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/about/our-campus
• https://maps.app.goo.gl/L636reGtE8aLS9XZ7
• The workshop will be at The Roslin Institute in seminar room B-006

Dates:

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• Satellite workshop on AlphaSimR & FieldSimR 15-16th September
• The EUCARPIA conference 17th - 19th September
• TODO: Any other dates?

Registration

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Invited speakers

• Gary Atlin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Rosemary Bailey, University of Saint Andrews
• Hao Cheng, University of California, Davis
• Sarah Hearne, CIMMYT
• Steven Penfield, John Innes Centre
• María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez, University of Vigo
• Pascal Schopp, KWS Group
• Julian Taylor, University of Adelaide
• Andrea Wilson, University of Edinburgh

Agenda

• Monday - Tuesday (15/16th Sep): Satellite workshop
• Wednesday (17th Sep): EUCARPIA conference
  • Morning:
    • Session 1: Impact of biometrical and breeding methods in public and private programs (provisional; chair TBD)
    • Session 2: Design of individual and multi-environment trials (provisional; chair TBD)
  • Afternoon:
    • Session 3: Genetic and genomic modelling of plant breeding data (provisional; chair TBD)
    • Session 4: Beyond genetic and genomic modelling (multiple data streams, hierarchical LMMs, etc.; chair TBD)
• Thursday (18th Sep): EUCARPIA conference
  • Morning:
    • Session 5: Modelling and leveraging GxE in the face of climate change (provisional; chair TBD)
    • Session 6: Modelling and leveraging GxE (including epidemiological modelling of disease/pathogens (provisional; chair TBD)
  • Afternoon: Social programme, including tours
• Friday (19th Sep): EUCARPIA conference
  • Morning:
    • Session 7: High-throughput modelling (provisional; chair TBD)
    • Session 8: AI/Machine learning techniques in practice (provisional; chair TBD)
  • Afternoon:
    • Session 9: Genetic diversity and long-term genetic gains (provisional; chair TBD)

Communication

All communication regarding the conference should go to [email protected]

The last EUCARPIA Biometrics in Plant Breeding Conference (2022): https://eucarpiabiom22.sciencesconf.org