MSc 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, practical 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 growth, and primordial germ cell applications. Active research areas encompass dairy cattle health and fertility genetic assessments from field data, dairy cattle selection index optimization, effects of body size selection in dairy herds, tracking inbreeding levels 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 modification, dairy QTL mapping with genome-wide association studies, plus statistical methods and computational approaches for QTL and SNP-based genome-wide association analysis.