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Lecturer in Animal Breeding
Wilson is an animal breeder, with vast experience in teaching genetics and animal breeding. Having worked in the livestock industry before at policy level, one of his passions is to advocate for livestock policy changes towards creating a conducive socio-economic environment in which farmers can derive maximum benefits from their livestock, especially through genetics and animal breeding regulation and legislation He has been participating in research and development projects that are using animal breeding as the major tool for livestock improvement. His other interests include livestock data mining and knowledge management as effective tools for helping farmers make informed decisions about their livestock. Wilson intends to work towards assisting farmers into organising themselves into breed associations in order to effectively realise more livestock genetic improvement.
Wilson is trying to find out if the use of genomic data may make the implementation of community-based goat breeding programs in low-input/ low-output production systems more effective. He is going to identify informative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for goat traits which farmers would like to be improved in the community breeding centres in Uganda and Malawi. A custom SNP chip comprising the identified markers will be produced to be used for routine genotyping of animals in the community goat breeding centres. This is expected to facilitate selection of the goats at a lower cost. Wilson is also working on genomic indicators of Pinzgau cattle diversity. The work focuses on characterization of diversity in Slovakian and Austrian Pinzgau cattle populations with the use of molecular genetic tools, with emphasis on estimation of genomic inbreeding coefficients via runs of homozygosity, as well as determination of global and local admixture levels.
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