1st European Farm Animal Functional Genomics Workshop
18 - 20 September 2005

Registration and Coffee

Welcome - Prof Dave Burt

Keynote Speaker

• Prof Daniel Pomp - Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, USA
  "Genetic architecture of growth and fat: integrating
  quantitative and molecular techniques"
  

Session 1 - "Genetics and QTLs"

Chairpersons: Luc Janss and D-J de Koning

• Prof Dan Nettleton - Iowa State University, USA
  "Identifying Genes Associated with a Quantitative Trait or Quantitative Trait Locus via Selective Transcriptional Profiling"
  

Coffee

Session 1 - "Genetics and QTLs" continued

• Prof Leif Andersson - Uppsala University, Sweden
  "Genetic dissection of QTLs for growth and body composition using divergent intercrosses in chicken"
  
• Dr Micha Ron - Agricultural Research Organisation, Israel
  "Identification of a missense mutation in the bovine ABCG2 gene with a major effect on milk yield and composition in Holstein cattle"
  

Session 2 - "Farm animal genomics in industry"

Chairperson: Chris Warkup

• Dr Santiago Avendano - Aviagen, UK
  "Genomics in the poultry industry"
  
• Dr Graham Plastow - Sygen, UK
  "Genomics in the pig industry"
  
• Dr Christa Kühn - FBN Dummerstorf, Germany
  "Genomics in the dairy industry"
  

Session 3 - "Genome Analysis"

Chairpersons: Ewan Birney and Andy Law

• Dr Thomas Faraut - INRA, France
  "Narcisse: a mirror view of conserved syntenies"
  
• Dr Abel Ureta-Vidal - EBI, UK
  "Genome-wide automatic prediction of orthologues and paralogues in Ensembl"
  
• Dr Laura Elnitski - NHGRI, USA
  "Insights into the evolution of regulatory regions using comparative genomics"
  

Session 4 - "Functional Genomics meets Physiology"

Chairpersons: Francois Hatey and Claire Wathes

• Dr Marinus te Pas - Animal Science Group, Lelystad, Netherlands
  “Microarraying prenatal pig muscles: relationship with pork quality”
  
• Dr Matt Lucy - University of Missouri, USA
  "Lessons learned from the Analysis of Gene Expression in Bovine and Porcine Ovary"
  
• Dr Alex Evans - University College Dublin, Ireland
  "Genomic studies of follicles and embryos"
  
• Dr Philippe Monget - INRA, France
  “Functional genomics and female fertility”

Session 5 - Poster session / cheese and wine

Conference Dinner

Session 6 - "Open session"

Chairperson: Dave Burt

• DK Griffin
  "Avian chromosomes: Identification, organisation and evolution"
• P Milona, C L Townes and J Hall
  "Expression and Antimicrobial Activities of Gallinacins 4 and 7"
• JI Clark,
  "Does your work show on GO?"
• J Kumuthini and Dr C Bessant
  "Extraction of Genome-wide Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) From Microarray Data Using Bayesian Belief Network"
• Jakob Hedegaard
  "Molecular characterization of the early pig response to experimental infection with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae using cDNA microarrays"

Session 7 - "Disease resistance" (sponsored by EADGENE)

Chairpersons: Marie-Hélène Pinard-van der Laan and Steve Bishop

• Dr Hans Cheng - Michigan State University, USA
  "Integrating genomic approaches to identify resistance genes to Marek's disease in chicken"
  
• Prof Steve Kemp - ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya
  "Identification of genes and mechanisms involved in resistance to trypanosomiasis"
  
• Dr Claire Rogel-Gaillard - INRA, France
  "Functional genomic approaches to study pig MHC genes"
  

Session 8 - "Innate Immunity"

Chairpersons: Pete Kaiser and David Haig

• Dr Rima Zoorob - CNRS, Villejuif, France
  "Microarray analysis of IBDV infections"
  
• Dr Dirk Werling - RVC, Hatfield, UK
  "Bovine pattern recognition receptors"
  
• Dr Aisling Dunne -Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  "Toll-like Receptors: An overview"
  

Session 9 - "Funding Opportunities"

Chairperson: Alan Archibald

• Dr David Garwes -Defra Livestock Genetics R&D Programme,
  "Defra funding opportunities for animal genomics"
  
• Ben Sykes - Genes & Developmental Biology Committee, BBSRC, UK
  "BBSRC activities and funding schemes"
  
• Dr Nik Marchetti - Beta Technologies
  "Funding opportunities at a European level"