Dörte Wittenburg

Dörte Wittenburg is a Research Professor at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), leading the Working Group Statistics in Genomics since 2019 and the Focus Topic Promoting Diversity in Animal Farming. She contributes to the Master Programme Sustainable Agricultural Systems at University Rostock and has authored 15+ articles on statistical genomics.

• Education: Habilitation (2021), PhD in Biomathematics (2008), Diploma in Business Mathematics (2005)

Research Interests include:

• Statistical methods for genetic effects on quantitative traits
• Penalized regression with genomic dependencies
• Population-genetic parameter estimation (linkage disequilibrium, recombination rates)

Article Trends focus on:

• Genomic selection and QTL analysis
• Machine learning in agricultural genetics
• Sex-specific and species-specific recombination mapping
• Admixture and family structure modeling

Scientific Awards:

• DGFZ Preis 2020 (Masterarbeiten) for Estimation of genetic parameters of milk urea content

Advising involves offering master theses in animal breeding at University Rostock. Grants include funding for projects like Improving genome-based phenotype prediction (2013-2018) and BovIBI Bovine Integrative Bioinformatics for Genomic Selection (2008-2012).