Satellite workshop
We are going to hold a workshop on running simulation of selective breeding programs using the AlphaSimR & FieldSimR R packages.
✅ Time: 15-16th September 2025
🏫 Place: The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush campus (see below for details)
Please bring a laptop and be ready to install R packages. We have shared instructions on which packages we will use via e-mail To connect to the guest Wi-Fi, please see the official guide provided by the University of Edinburgh: Connecting to Guest & Visitor Wi-Fi.
Instructors
Program
| Day 1 - AlphaSimR | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Intro to simulations and AlphaSimR |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-12:30 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Fitting statistical models in simulations |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Hybrids and dominance |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15:30-17:00 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Import of real data, polyploids, … |
| Day 2 - FieldSimR | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Intro to experimental design and spatial variation |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00-12:30 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Simulating individual field trials and fitting spatial models |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Intro to modelling and disentangling GxE interaction |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15:30-17:00 | Lectures / Tutorials / Practicals: Simulating multi-environment field trials and fitting GxE models |
Food
Food and drinks are provided (during morning break, lunch, and afternoon break). In addition, there is our cafe “Dolly’s”, in the building, open 8:30-15:30. Filtered water is available at any time at the water dispenser in Dolly’s.
About the venue
The Easter Bush Campus of The University of Edinburgh hosts The Roslin Institute (Goolge maps), The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine, The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, and a range of startups and established businesses.
Getting there
The Easter Bush campus is directly served by several local bus routes, the bus stop is called Veterinary Centre. To plan your journey, try using the Traveline Scotland journey planner, Google Maps, or the Citymapper app. All buses of line 47B serve the campus. If however you take bus line 37, you must make sure that the bus displays “via Easter Bush”. Otherwise you will end up in the wong place.
Please note that there is a village called Roslin nearby. Do not go to Roslin village. Come to The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush campus! (Goolge maps)
| Travelling from | Bus service |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh: Bruntsfield and Morningside | 15 |
| Edinburgh: Princes Street, Waverley Station, and Newington | 37 (only buses displaying "via Easter Bush" serve the campus) |
| Edinburgh: West End, Tollcross, and Central Area | 47B |
| Musselburgh and Dalkeith | 141 |
| Penicuik | 141, 47B |
