3rd International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics (ISAFG)
7th – 9th April 2008, Edinburgh, UK

The 3rd International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics (ISAFG) brought together three conferences into one event: European Farm Animal Functional Genomics Conference (ARK-Genomics), International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics (Michigan State University) and the launch of the EBRC(the provisional name for a new institute within the University of Edinburgh).

The conference was structured around the following themes, each with invited speakers covering major topics in animal functional genomics:

• Genetics and QTLs
• Bioinformatics and Data Mining
• Animal Health
• Functional Genomics meets Physiology
• Animal Genomics in Industry
• Proteomics
• Systems Biology

Abstracts

The abstract collection is available here.

Programme

Monday 7 April 2008

Joint Functional Genomics Session with the EBRC Launch

• Welcome - Liz Glass (Roslin Institute, UK), David Hume (EBRC, UK)
• Keynote Speech 1: Stochasticity and Networks in Genomic Data - Prof John Quackenbush (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health, USA)
• Keynote Speech 2: Recent Advances in Deciphering the Molecular Basis of Polar Overdominance - Prof Michel Georges (University of Liege, Belgium)
• Complex Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Malaria: Lessons from the Mouse - Professor Philippe Gros (McGill University)

Poster Session

Tuesday 8 April 2008

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)
  

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)

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)

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

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

Sequenom Company Presentation: Animal Functional Genomics using the MassARRAY® System - Dr Robin Everts, Sequenom, USA

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)

Workshops

• “Creating, sharing and using biological pathways using WikiPathways, PathVisio and GenMAPP” Thomas Kelder and Martijn van Iersel (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
• 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)
• “GO Annotations training session” Fiona McCarthy (The AgBase Databases, Mississippi State University, USA)

Conference Dinner followed by Ceilidh

Wednesday 9 April 2008
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)

Session 7 - Open Session
Chairs: Richard Talbot (ARK-Genomics) and Dr Guilherme Rosa (University of Wisconsin, USA)

• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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

Affymetrix Company Presentation: Future Potential Products for Non-human Whole Genome Association Studies - Fiona Brew (Affymetrix) Sidlaw Auditorium

Posters

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)

Session 9 - Open Session 2
Chairs: Liz Glass (Roslin Institute) and Sue Sipkovsky (Michigan State University)

• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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

Announcement of Jeanne L. Burton Medal winner for best oral presentation

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)

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