Chief Scientist, Massey University
Dorian graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (First Class Honours) from Massey University, before a Fulbright scholarship and the Andrew D. White Fellowship took him to Cornell University, where he completed his PhD on the use of pedigree and performance information from field data for prediction of genetic merit and estimation of variance components. He returned to Massey University, teaching and extending his research. His work led to the development of new approaches to national evaluation in dairy cattle and sheep including across-breed animal model prediction and web-accessible systems for on-demand turn key evaluations. Dorian has held professorial positions at Colorado State University and Iowa State University and is the A.L. Rae Chair in Animal Breeding and Genetics at Massey University.
Sessions
Gene editing: What stance should New Zealand take?