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Dr Natalie Connors

Senior Research Fellow - Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU)

Phone: +61 2 6773 5268

Biography

Natalie is an experienced computational biologist with an interest in delivering commercial applications to maximimise genetic gains for the benefit of industry.

Qualifications

2011 Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, Australia
Thesis: Identification of Properties that Affect in vitro Virus-Like Particle Assembly

2005 Bachelor of Science (Honours I)(Computational Biology/Biochemistry), The University of Queensland, Australia

Primary Research Area/s

Animal genetics

Research Interests

Natalie is a computational biologist beginning a career in animal genetics. She's involved in improving the Horn/Poll test and genetic contribution programs.
Key research includes upgrading the cattle Poll/Horn test, resulting in improved representation of uncertainty
(for both haplotype and genotype probabilities), and providing results for animals with uncertain haplotypes.
Natalie is also involved in developing programs for estimating individual genetic contributions and QA for genomic data.

External Profiles

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