Gunnar Klemetsdal

Professor

  • Avl, genetikk og matproduksjonssystemer

Main activities:

Work package leader in Foods of Norway, for feed efficiency, health and robusteness

Genetics of feed efficiency in salmon (with researcher: Hanne Dvergedal)

Genetics of male fertility in dairy cattle (supervising PhD: Henriette Berg Olsen)

Breeding program for sheep in Ethiopia (co-supervising PhD: Haile Weleregay Gebreslase)

Life cycle assesment in dairy cattle production (co-supervising: PhD Torgunn Skjerve)

Future breeding goals from applying robustess and allocation theory (co-supervising: PhD Line Sass Kierkegaard) 

Kelp breeding (co-supervising: PhD, to be emoloyed)

Other activities:

To publish on Runs of homozygosity mapping (with Borhild Hillestad)

To publish on genetics for growth of Nile Tilapia in Ethiopia (with Kassaye Balkew Workageng)

To publish on genetics of adult ewe weight

To publish on beef cattle breeding ( with Signe Ulse Narvestad)

Long standing publication in horse breeding