Geneticist
Teagasc
Fermoy, Cork
Prof Donagh Berry (B.Agr Sc.; MSc Bioinformatics; PhD), Teagasc, Ireland
Donagh Berry is a senior principal investigator in quantitative genetics at Teagasc, Ireland holding professorships at several (inter)national universities; as well as research, he is strongly engaged in third-level education and extension to a wide range of different stakeholders. Following his BAgrSc at University College Dublin he undertook a PhD in quantitative genetics in a collaboration between Teagasc, Wageningen University and University College Dublin, Ireland followed by an MSc in Bioinformatics at University College Cork, Ireland. Working across species (i.e., dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, horses), his research interests are in phenotyping strategies, breeding goal development and deployment, genetic evaluations, and genomic predictions; of late his interests have included beef-on-dairy matings with the goal of providing the information and tools to help decision making on all things related to beef-on-dairy breeding. He has published >350 peer reviewed journal publications.
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