Michael Goddard Explained

Mike Goddard
Birth Name:	Michael Edward Goddard
Alma Mater:	University of Melbourne (BVSc(Hons), PhD)
Thesis Title:	Development of a breeding programme for guide dogs
Thesis Url:	http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27702628
Thesis Year:	1979

Michael Edward "Mike" Goddard is a professorial fellow in animal genetics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.^[1]

Education

Goddard was educated at the University of Melbourne where he was awarded Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) and PhD degrees.^{[2] [3]}

Awards and honours

Goddard was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 2011.^{[4] [5]}

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

In 2018 he won the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science.

Selected publications

• 10.3389/fgene.2014.00247 . 25191337 . 4139735 . The use of epigenetic phenomena for the improvement of sheep and cattle . Frontiers in Genetics . 5 . 247 . 2014 . Goddard . M. E. . Whitelaw . E. . free .
• 10.1038/nrg2575. Mapping genes for complex traits in domestic animals and their use in breeding programmes . Nature Reviews Genetics . 10. 6. 381–391. 2009. Goddard . M. E. . Hayes . B. J. . 19448663. 2111050 .
• 20935630 . 2010 . Speliotes . E. K. . Willer . C. J. . Berndt . S. I. . Monda . K. L. . Thorleifsson . G . Jackson . A. U. . Lango Allen . H . Lindgren . C. M. . Luan . J . Mägi . R . Randall . J. C. . Vedantam . S . Winkler . T. W. . Qi . L . Workalemahu . T . Heid . I. M. . Steinthorsdottir . V . Stringham . H. M. . Weedon . M. N. . Wheeler . E . Wood . A. R. . Ferreira . T . Weyant . R. J. . Segrè . A. V. . Estrada . K . Liang . L . Nemesh . J . Park . J. H. . Gustafsson . S . Kilpeläinen . T. O. . Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index . 42 . 11 . 937–48 . 10.1038/ng.686 . Nature Genetics . 3014648 . 29 .
• 20562875 . 3232052 . 2010 . Yang . J . Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height . Nature Genetics . 42 . 7 . 565–9 . Benyamin . B . McEvoy . B. P. . Gordon . S . Henders . A. K. . Nyholt . D. R. . Madden . P. A. . Heath . A. C. . Martin . N. G. . Montgomery . G. W. . Goddard . M. E. . Visscher . P. M. . 10.1038/ng.608 .
• Lango Allen . H. . Estrada . K. . Lettre . G. . Berndt . S. I. . Weedon . M. N. . Rivadeneira . F. . Willer . C. J. . Jackson . A. U. . Vedantam . S. . Raychaudhuri . S. . Ferreira . T. . Wood . A. R. . Weyant . R. J. . Segrè . A. V. . Speliotes . E. K. . Wheeler . E. . Soranzo . N. . Park . J. H. . Yang . J. . Gudbjartsson . D. . Heard-Costa . N. L. . Randall . J. C. . Qi . L. . Vernon Smith . A. . Mägi . R. . Pastinen . T. . Liang . L. . Heid . I. M. . Luan . J. A. . Thorleifsson . G. . Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height . 10.1038/nature09410 . Nature . 467 . 7317 . 832–838 . 2955183 . 2010 . 20881960 . 2010Natur.467..832L . 29 .
• 21167468 . 3014363 . 2011 . Yang . J . GCTA: A tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis . The American Journal of Human Genetics . 88 . 1 . 76–82 . Lee . S. H. . Goddard . M. E. . Visscher . P. M. . 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.11.011 .
• 19164653 . 2009 . Hayes . B. J. . Invited review: Genomic selection in dairy cattle: Progress and challenges . Journal of Dairy Science . 92 . 2 . 433–43 . Bowman . P. J. . Chamberlain . A. J. . Goddard . M. E. . 10.3168/jds.2008-1646 . free .
• 11290733 . 1461589 . 2001 . Meuwissen . T. H. . Prediction of total genetic value using genome-wide dense marker maps . Genetics . 157 . 4 . 1819–29 . Hayes . B. J. . Goddard . M. E. . 10.1093/genetics/157.4.1819 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Michael Goddard FRS . The Royal Society . 2015-05-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150502203613/https://royalsociety.org/people/fellowship/2015/michael-goddard/ . London.
2. Web site: University of Melbourne . https://web.archive.org/web/20130430024734/http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person3714 . Professor Michael Goddard . 2013-04-30.
3. PhD . Michael Edward. Goddard . Development of a breeding programme for guide dogs . University of Melbourne . 1979 . 220267115.
4. Web site: Professor Mike Goddard . The Australian Academy of Science . 2016-12-11 .
5. Web site: Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science elected 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095317/http://www.sciencearchive.org.au/fellows/elected/2011.html . 24 September 2015 . dmy-all .
   
   • Web site: Fellows elected in 2011 . science.org.au .