Johan van Arendonk - Wageningen University
Johan obtained his Ph.D. degree at Wageningen University in 1985. After graduation he joined the animal breeding and genetics group of Wageningen University. In 1988 he spent six months at the University of Guelph (Canada) and in 1992 he spent another six-month sabbatical at the University of New England (Armidale, Australia). He obtained a personal chair in 1999 and in 2001 was appointed head of the animal breeding and genomics centres of Wageningen University. He has lead the Dutch Milk Genomics initiative since 2004. Johan's present areas of research are: the use of molecular information for the detection and utilization of genes affecting traits, quantitative genetics and optimization of breeding programmes. He has (co-) authored close to 200 papers in scientific journals and supervised 38 Ph.D. students.

