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Martin Johnsson
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PhD in genetics. Associate professor (docent) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala. The Jar Jar Binks of animal genomics. Writes in English, svenska & gruntings. he/him
Researcher day with the Beijer laboratories. Here: Elin Hernlund, my fellow Beijer researcher in the laboratory for animal science, talking about her models of shape and posture of domestic animals.
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Vice Chancellor Maria Knutson Wedel, SLU, opening the first "studium generale", a series of meetings on knowledge--I suppose--and reflection.
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Circuits and microsats on the whiteboard.
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Going home from Borlänge and Högskolan Dalarna after Priyanka Mehra's PhD defence--an exciting full day of theoretical genetics and computational modelling.

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August 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I like this, and my only additional wish would be the Tübingen feature that a Wir sind Helden song starts playing when the time is up. #eseb2025
August 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Ida Hansson defending her PhD on social interactions and the scope for indirect genetic effects in dairy cattle at SLU. Right this moment, she is deep in discussion with the external review, Martin Lidauer from Luke, Finland.
June 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
PhD candidate Mohammed Sallam and external reviewer Christine Baes discussing the role of machine learning in trait recording for animal breeding.
March 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
20 minutes to Sallam's PhD defence.

www.slu.se/en/ew-calend...
March 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Mohammed Sallam's PhD thesis, "Digital and genetic tools to improve bones of laying hens", is public and nailed to the wall as tradition dictates.

As an assistant supervisor, collaborator and laying hen bone enthusiast, I couldn't be happier.

The defence is March 7.

www.slu.se/en/ew-calend...
February 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
October 19, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Maximum campus Ultuna.
September 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
May 4, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Enjoying a wide variety of talks about genomics of reproduction at the conference of the Centre for Reproductive Biology in Uppsala. Here: Carl-Johan Rubin on sex determination in flatfish.
February 15, 2024 at 9:28 AM
I got myself a book from the place with the space dragon.
January 28, 2024 at 9:31 PM
January 5, 2024 at 6:02 PM