Mike Goddard
Position: |
Professorial Fellow in Animal Genetics |
Address: |
LFR, University of Melbourne, Royal Pde, Parkville, 3010 |
Phone: |
+61-3-9217-4152 |
Fax: |
+61-3-9217-4299 |
Email: |
mike.goddard@nre.vic.gov.au |
Teaching:
Genetic improvement of livestock, Quantitative genetics
Research:
Genetic improvement of livestock, Livestock genomics
Other professional interests:
Population genetics, dairy science
Recent projects and consultancies:
- Genomics of the bovine mammary gland
- Genetic improvement of fertility and mastitis resistance in dairy cows
- Mapping genes for food conversion efficiency in beef cattle and pigs
- Methods for mapping quantitative trait loci
Recent publications:
- Hayes B.J. and Goddard M.E. (2001) The distribution of the effects of genes affecting quantitative traits in livestock. Gen. Sel. Evol. 33: 209-229.
- Meuwissen T.H.E., Karlsen A., Lien S., Olsaker I. and Goddard M.E. (2002) Fine mapping of a quantitative trait locus for twinning rate using combined linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping. Genetics 161: 373-379.
- Goddard M.E. (2003) Animal breeding in the (post-) genomic era. Animal Science.
- Haile-Mariam M., J.M. Morton and M.E. Goddard. 2003. Estimates of genetic parameters for fertility traits of Australian Holstein-Friesian cattle. Animal Science 76: 35-42.
- Hayes, B. J. Visscher, P. E., McPartlan, H. and Goddard, M. E. (2003) A novel multi-locus measure of linkage disequilibrium and it use to estimate past effective population size. Genome Research Accepted.
Potential Honours projects:
- Identifying genes affecting milk production in cattle.
- Genetics of fertility in cattle.
- The genetic basis of complex traits.