PhD in Animal Sciences - Genetics in Minneapolis United States | University of Minnesota Twin Cities

The Genetics program provides graduate-level M.S. and Ph.D. degrees focusing on molecular genetics in avian, bovine, and porcine species, applied dairy cattle genetics, and quantitative genetics. State-of-the-art laboratory and computing resources support cutting-edge research in genome analysis, gene expression investigations, quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, embryonic skeletal muscle development, and primordial germ cell applications. Active research areas encompass dairy cattle health and fertility genetic assessments, dairy cattle selection index optimization, body size selection effects in dairy herds, inbreeding level tracking across dairy breeds, dairy cattle crossbreeding strategies, functional genomics in cattle and swine, bovine and porcine genome annotation, pig biomedical and performance trait genetic mapping, porcine genome engineering, dairy QTL mapping with genome-wide association studies, and statistical/computational methods for QTL and SNP marker analysis.