| Tuesday 14 December |
10.30 - 11.15 |
Registration and Coffee |
11.15 - 11.30 |
Welcome |
11.30 - 12.15 |
Plenary lecture 'Genetics and Genomics'
Keynote Speaker Professor Johnathan Flint (Oxford University)
|
12.15 - 13.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.30 - 15.00 |
Session 1 – Open Session
- Judith Hall (University of Newcastle upon Tyne): Chicken
Liver Expressed Antimicrobial Peptide-2 in response to Salmonella
Infection
- Harminder Sehra (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute): A sequence
map of the Porcine major histocompatibility complex class III
region
- Emma Borthwick (Roslin Institute): The search for differentially
expressed genes in the spleens of preclinically BSE infected
cattle
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| 15.00 - 15.30 |
Coffee |
| 15.30 - 17.30 |
Session 2 - 'Bioinformatics'
Andy Brass (Manchester University) to chair and organise
- John Hancock (MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit): Insights from
the sequencing and annotation of the Del36H region of the mouse
genome
- Robert Stevens (University of Manchester): myGRID project
- Simon Hubbard (University of Manchester): The chicken transcriptome
from ESTs and cDNAs
|
| 19.00 |
Dinner |
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| Wednesday 15 December |
| 09.00 - 10.30 |
Session 3 - 'Host-Pathogen Interaction'
Harry Noyes (University of Liverpool) to chair and organise
- Linda Dixon (Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright): Porcine
macrophage responses to African swine fever virus infection studied
using a porcine cDNA microarray
- Paul Kellam (UCL): The first line of defence: Transcriptional
Responses of Dendritic Cells to Pathogens
- David MacHugh (University College, Dublin): Functional genomics
of tuberculosis infection in cattle
|
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee |
| 11.00 - 12.15 |
Session 4 - Open Session
- Kirsty McGuire (Roslin Institute): Differential response
to Theileria annulata infection by bovine macrophages derived
from resistant and susceptible breeds of cattle
- Malcolm Maden (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
Kings College London): Screening for Immediate Response Genes
Induced by Retinoic Acid in Hindbrain Development
- Laurens Wilming (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute): Mouse
Annotation Highlights
|
| 12.00 - 13.15 |
Lunch |
| 13.15 - 14.45 |
Session 5 - 'Genomic Techniques'
- Claudio Stern (UCL): New technologies to study gene function
in vivo in the chick embryo
- Rob Beynon (University of Liverpool): Proteome dynamics in
relation to muscle growth
- Gary Evans (Sygen): Genomics & Industry
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| 14.45 - 15.00 |
Closing
Professor Dave Burt (Roslin Institute) |
