Early Career Industry Fellowships - Grant ID: IE230100263

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/IE230100263

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Improve genomic testing tools for fertility traits in beef cattle. Fertility is a key driver of productivity and profitability for beef industry; however, a substantial industry challenge is poor fertility and the difficulty and expense of measuring fertility in remote Australia. By integrating multiple omics datasets and fifty thousand fertility phenotypes recorded on beef cattle, the project will identify sequence variation, including structural variants, that underpin genetic variation in cattle fertility. Our industry partner, which genotypes hundreds of thousands of cattle a year, will produce new genotype arrays and novel low-cost sequencing approaches including these variants, enabling selection that could potentially increase herd reproductive rate by 4%, returning $40M per annum to the farmers.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2023

End Date: 30-06-2026

Funding Scheme: Early Career Industry Fellowships

Funding Amount: $477,037.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Statistical and quantitative genetics | Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics) | Genomics and transcriptomics | Bioinformatics and computational biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Beef Cattle | Bioinformatics and computational biology | Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics) | Genomics and transcriptomics | Statistical and quantitative genetics

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