| Wednesday 27 September |
09:00 - 12:00 |
ARK-Genomics Steering Group Meeting |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Registration and Lunch |
13:00 - 13:10 |
Welcome by Prof Alan Archibald |
13:10 - 14:00 |
Keynote Speaker
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- Prof Dave Burt – Roslin Institute, UK
Identification of a new molecule in the SHH signaling pathway:
Genomics at the cutting edge
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 1: Disease & Immunology |
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- Dr Pete Kaiser – Institute of Animal Health,
UK
The mechanisms of virus-induced immunosuppression in poultry – the
circovirus chicken anaemia virus as a model system
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- Dr Emma Borthwick – Roslin Institute, UK
Is there differential gene expression during early BSE infection
in cattle white blood cells?
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- Dr Astrid de Greeff – Animal Science Group
(ASG), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Host responses to S.uberis infection by microarray analysis
and real time PCR
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| 15:30 – 15:40 |
Dr Malcolm Plant - Sequenom
The application of MassARRAY in Agriculture
Flexible, high multiplexed genotyping. Methylation analysis and
sensitive genetic investigation
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| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Session 2: Physiology |
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- Dr Sandrine Dupre – Manchester University,
UK
Investigation of transcriptional pathways driving the photoperiodic
control of seasonal rhythms in mammals
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- Dr Tim Boswell – Newcastle University, UK
Development and use of a chicken neuroendocrine cDNA microarray
in reproductive physiology
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- Dr Ian Dunn – Roslin Institute, UK
Hypothesis generation from chicken shell gland microarray experiments
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- Dr Paul Sear – Cardiff University, UK
Identification of genes and gene pathways involved in the freshwater
to seawater adaptation of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
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| 19:30 - 22:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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| Thursday 28 September |
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session 3: Disease and Immunology continued |
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- Dr Fuquan Zhang – Institute of Animal Health,
UK
Macrophage transcriptional responses following in vitro infection
with African swine fever virus: a microarray-based study
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- Dr Tahar Ait-Ali – Roslin Institute, UK
Dissecting PRRSV innate immune response in swine
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- Dr Sam Martin - University of Aberdeen, UK
Transcriptional analysis following recombinant interferon stimulation
on an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) cell line
SHK-1
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| 10:30 - 10:40 |
Dr Heike Kofler - Operon Biotechnologies GmbH
New Platforms and Systems for DNA Microarrays: 70mer Oligonucleotide
Probes Optimised for Animal Expression Analysis
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| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session 4: Physiology continued |
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- Prof Claire Wathes – Royal Veterinary College,
UK
Effects of energy balance status on gene expression patterns
in the postpartum dairy cow
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- Dr Tony Jackson – Cambridge University, UK
Life and death without clathrin in chicken DT40 lymphocytes
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 |
Session 5: Parallel Workshop Sessions |
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- GO annotation (GO Consortium browsers and GO tools/
How to annotate with protein2go / how to join GO) &
Reactome
[run back-to-back]
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- ArkDB &
Microarray normalisation (2-dye)
[run back-to-back]
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee |
| 15:30 - 16:30 |
Session 6: Genomics - outlook and visions |
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- Dr Steve Picton – Affymetrix
Targeted Genotyping
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- Dr Evelyn Camon, Dr Jennifer Clark – European
Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Overview of GO tools
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| 16:30 - 16:40 |
Closing remarks by Prof Alan Archibald |
