Clotilde Patry

Paris Area, France France

Secretary General of EuroGenomics, a European consortium in the field of cattle breeding

Agriculture / Forests / Fisheries

More than 8 years and 13 countries of experience in the field of cattle breeding improvement. I begun as a trainee in AI centres (in India in 2007 and in France in 2008) where I had to study the characteristics of local breeds/crossbreds in order to better target their use by local farmers and for export. With my PhD at INRA (2008-2011), I had the chance to dive into the methods for the prediction of breeding values exactly at the same time genomic selection begun to be implemented in the Holstein breed. This was a great opportunity to understand the changes of practices induced by this technological revolution. Not only in the calculation centres but also in the breeding companies, in AI...