ARK-Genomics Conference 2008: 3rd ISAFG, 7 – 9 April 2008, Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

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Conference Programme

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Monday 7 April 2008
11.00 – 14.00 Registration & Coffee Strathblane Hall
Joint Functional Genomics Session with the EBRC Launch
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome
Liz Glass (Roslin Institute, UK)
David Hume (EBRC, UK)		 Pentland Auditorium
14.15 – 15.00 Keynote Speech 1: 
Stochasticity and Networks in Genomic Data - Prof John Quackenbush
(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health, USA) Systems Biology		 Pentland Auditorium
15.00 – 15.45 Keynote Speech 2:
Recent Advances in Deciphering the Molecular Basis of Polar Overdominance - Prof Michel Georges (University of Liege, Belgium)		 Pentland Auditorium
15.45 – 16.30

Complex Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Malaria: Lessons from the Mouse - Professor Philippe Gros (McGill University)

 Pentland Auditorium
16.30 – 18.30 Poster Session (Cheese & Wine) Cromdale Hall

 

Tuesday 8 April 2008
08.30 – 09.30 Session 1 - Genetics and QTL’s
Chairs: Dr DJ DeKoning (Roslin Institute) & Dr Luc Janss (DIAS/University of Arhus, Denmark)

    • Development and Applications of a Bovine 50,000 SNP Chip - Prof Jerry Taylor (University of Missouri, USA)

   • Sex, breeds,... and microarrays - Dr Miguel Perez – Enciso (University of Barcelona, Spain)		 Sidlaw Auditorium 
09.30 – 10.00 Coffee/Exhibition and Posters Cromdale Hall
10.00 – 11.00 Session 2 - Bioinformatics & Data Mining
Chairs: Dr Jan Aerts (Roslin Institute) & Dr Guilherme Rosa (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

   • A Transcriptional Connectivity Map for Biomedical Discovery - Dr Justin Lamb (Broad Institute, USA)

   • Network Reconstruction through Data Integration - Dr Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, USA)
 Sidlaw Auditorium
11.00 – 11.15

Operon
Eurofins MWG-Operon Company Presentation

Ultra-Highthroughput Sequencing with the Roche Genome Sequencer FLX – Technology, Applications and Software Solutions
Dr. Georg Gradl (Eurofins MWG GmbH, Ebersberg, Germany)

 Sidlaw Auditorium
11.15 – 12.15 Session 3 - Animal Health
Chairs: Dr Kirsty Jensen (Roslin Institute) & Dr Marie-Hélène Pinard-van der Laan (INRA/EADGENE coordinator, France)

   • Applied Bovine Genomics: Chipping Away at the Genetics Underlying Disease Traits - Tad S Sonstegard (USDA, USA)

   • Dr Rachel Rupp (INRA, France)		 Sidlaw Auditorium
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch/Exhibition and Posters Cromdale Hall
13.15 – 14.15 Session 4 - Functional Genomics meets Physiology
Chairs: Prof John Mullins (Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh) & Dr David McHugh (University College Dublin, Ireland)

   • Exercise-induced gene expression in equine skeletal muscle - Dr Emmeline Hill (University College Dublin, Ireland)
   • The Complex Nature of QTLS: How Many Genes are Under the Peak? - Professor Howard Jacob (Medical College of Wisconsin, USA) 		Sidlaw Auditorium
14.15 – 14.30 Sequenom
Company Presentation

Animal Functional Genomics using the MassARRAY® System
Dr Robin Everts, Sequenom, USA

 Sidlaw Auditorium
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee/Exhibition and Posters Cromdale Hall
15.00 – 16.00 Session 5 - Functional Genomics meets Physiology II
Chairs: Dr Toni Reverter-Gomez (CSRIO, Australia) & Dr Luiz Furlan (Sao Paulo State University, Brazil)

   • Genomic Approaches to the Reproductive Physiology of the Postpartum Cow - Dr Sigrid Lehnert (CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia)
   • A Systems Biology View of Muscle Development - Dr Brian P. Dalrymple (Computational and Systems Biology CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia)		 Sidlaw Auditorium
16.00 – 18.00 Workshops

16.00 – 16.40 - “Creating, sharing and using biological pathways using WikiPathways, PathVisio and GenMAPP” Thomas Kelder and Martijn van Iersel (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
 Room TBC
16.40 – 16.45 - Break
Applied Biosystems
 16.45 – 17.15 - Applied Biosystems - 30 minute demonstration/equipment tutorial

Fast and Reliable High Throughput DNA Analysis Using Taqman® SNP Genotyping Assays and the Biotrove™ Open Array System Phoebe White (Director Genotyping Applications Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA)
17.15 – 17.20 - Break
17.20– 18.00 - “GO Annotations training session” Fiona McCarthy (The AgBase Databases, Mississippi State University, USA)
19.30

20.00		 Pre-dinner Drinks

Conference Dinner followed by Ceilidh		 Balmoral Hotel

 

Wednesday 9 April 2008
09.00 – 10.00 Session 6 - Proteomics
Chairs: Dr David Smith (Moredun, Scotland) & Prof Rob Beynon (University of Liverpool, UK)

   • Proteome Studies of Host-microbiome Interactions - Dr Emøke Bendixen (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS), Denmark)

   • Deriving Biological Meaning for Patchy Proteomics - Dr Shane C Burgess (Mississippi State University, USA)
 Sidlaw Auditorium
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee/Exhibition and Posters Cromdale Hall
10.30 – 11.30 Session 7 - Open Session
Chairs: Richard Talbot (ARK-Genomics) and Dr Guilherme Rosa (University of Wisconsin, USA)

10.30 – 10.45 O1 - Proteome Analysis of Bovine Myogenesis Gives New Leads to Optimize Meat Quality and Muscle Growth Efficiency T Chaze (INRA, France), B Meunier, C Chambon, C Jurie, B Picard
10.45 -11.00 O2 - Comparative Bioinformatic Analysis of the Transcriptional Response to Salmonella Enterica Serovar Choleraesuis Suggests Novel Targets of Nfκb are Activated in the Porcine Mesenteric Lymph Node
CK Tuggle (Iowa State University, USA), Y Wang, OP Couture, C Christian, L Qu, JJ Uthe, SMD Bearson, D Kuhar, JK Lunney, D Nettleton, JCM Dekkers
11.00 – 11.15 O3 - Tissue-specific expression analysis of alternative splicing in the pig
A-B Nygard, S Cirera, M Gilchrist, J Gorodkin, C Jørgensen, M Fredholm (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
11.15 – 11.30 O4 - Inference on Hidden Population Substructure and Genetic Background of Cattle from Dense SNP Genotype Data
E Chan (CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia),
A Reverter, E Collis, W Barendse, R Hawken
Sidlaw Auditorium
11.30 – 11.45 Affymetrix
Company Presentation

Future Potential Products for Non-human Whole Genome Association Studies
Fiona Brew (Affymetrix) 		Sidlaw Auditorium
11.45 – 12.45  Lunch/Exhibition and Posters  Cromdale Hall
12.45 – 13.45 Session 8 - Animal Genomics in Industry
Chairs: Chris Warkup (Genesis-Faraday, UK) & Dr Anne-Marie Neeteson-van Nieuwenhoven (EFFAB/European forum of farm animal breeders)

   • Genomic selection: A Revolution in CRV's Breeding Program - Mr Sander De Roos (CRV, The Netherlands)

   • The Use of Genomics Information in Poultry Breeding Programs – A Global Breeder’s View - Dr John Ralph (Aviagen, UK)		 Sidlaw Auditorium
13.45 – 14.45 Session 9 - Open Session 2
Chairs: Liz Glass (Roslin Institute) and Sue Sipkovsky (Michigan State University)

13.45 – 14.00 O5 - Accuracy of Genomic Breeding Value Prediction Using Different Models
M Calus (Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands), T Meuwissen, S De Roos, R Veerkamp
14.00 – 14.15 O6 - Genome-Wide Expression Consequences of a Disease Resistance QTL are Strongly Influenced by the Genetic Background
H Noyes, M Agaba, S Anderson, A Archibald, A Brass, J Gibson, L Hall, H Hulme, S Kemp(University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
14.15 – 14.30 O7 - Gene Expression and Immune Studies in Bos Taurus and Bos Indicus Cattle Infested with Rhipicedphalus Microplus
LA Jackson (Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Australia), EK Piper, ME Jones, AE Lew, C Gondro, PM Moolhuijzen, NN Jonsson
14.30 – 14.45 O8 - A Phylogenetic Approach To Identify Substitutions Of Functional Relevance In Bovine Toll-Like Receptor 2
OC Jann (Roslin Institute, United Kingdom),
D Werling, EJ Glass
Sidlaw Auditorium
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee Cromdale Hall
15:15 – 15:25 Announcement of Jeanne L. Burton Medal winner for best oral presentation Cromdale Hall
15.25 – 16.25 Session 10 - Systems Biology
Chair: Prof Dave Burt (Roslin Institute) and Prof Alan Archibald (Roslin Institute)

   • From Bioinformatics to Systems Biology and Beyond - Prof Igor Goryanin (University of Edinburgh)

   • Cap-Analysis Gene Expression (CAGE) Analysis of Transcriptional Complexity and Regulation - Dr Piero Carninci (RIKEN, Japan)
Sidlaw Auditorium
16.25 – 16.30 Closing  

 

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