International PAG Poultry Workshop Poultry Workshop

Saturday Afternoon, 10 January 2004 --- 12:45 pm - 5:30 pm and Sunday 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Poultry Workshop - Sunset Room

Organizer: Bill Muir, Purdue

(bmuir@purdue.edu)

Speakers:

12:45PM
Bill Muir
INTRODUCTION

1:00-1:30PM
Martien Groenen
(Martien.Groenen@wur.nl)
DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SNP MARKERS IN CHICKEN FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF HAPLOTYPE BLOCKS AND THE FINEMAPPING OF QTL

1:30-2:00PM
Jerry Dodgson
(dodgson@msu.edu)
INTEGRATION OF CHICKEN LINKAGE AND PHYSICAL MAPS AND SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT USING OVERGO HYBRIDIZATION

2:00-2:15PM
NRSP-8 Coordinated Poultry Genome Research - National Animal Genome Research Program

2:15-2:45PM
Susan Lamont
(sjlamont@iastate.edu)
GENES AND GENOMIC REGIONS ASSOCIATED WITH GROWTH, COMPOSITION AND FITNESS TRAITS IN POULTRY

2:45-3:15PM
Break

3:15-4:00PM
Hans H. Cheng
(hcheng@msu.edu)
USDA-ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory
GENETIC RESISTANCE TO AVIAN TUMOR VIRUSES

4:00-4:30PM
Mary Delany
(MEDelany@UCDavis.Edu)
ORGANIZATION AND SPECIALIZED FEATURES OF CHICKEN TELOMERASE GENES (TR AND TERT)

4:30-5:00PM
Tom E. Porter
(TEPorter@umd.edu)
GLOBAL GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING OF THE CHICKEN NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM USING TISSUE-SPECIFIC cDNA MICROARRAYS

5:00-5:30PM
Ed Smith
(esmith@vt.edu)
DIRECT AND COMPARATIVE GENOME ANALYSIS OF BIRDS

Sunday, 11 January

8:30-9:00AM
Larry Cogburn
(cogburn@udel.edu)
of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware
FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS IN CHICKENS: TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILING WITH INTEGRATED-SYSTEMS MICROARRAYS AND GENE CLUSTER ANALYSIS

9:00-9:30AM
Marlene Emara
(emara@UDel.Edu)
University of Delaware
APPLICATION OF EST DATA MINING TO CHARACTERIZE FUNCTIONAL GENES AND GENETIC VARIATION IN THE CHICKEN

9:30-10:00AM
James Zhu
(jzhu@poultry.tamu.edu)
Texas A & M University
GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING OF INNATE IMMUNITY IN BROILERS AND LAYERS

10:00-10:30AM
BREAK

10:30-11:00AM
D. W. Burt
(dave.burt@bbsrc.ac.uk)
Roslin Institute
CHICKNET: INTEGRATION OF CHICKEN BIOLOGY AND THE GENOME

11:00-11:30AM
Wayne Kuenzel
(wkuenzel@uark.edu)
University of Arkansas
MAPPING EXPRESSION OF GENE PRODUCTS IN THE AVIAN BRAIN AND PITUITARY GLAND, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND PROPOSED FUNCTION OF THE VASOTOCIN II RECEPTOR

11:30-12:00PM
Ron Okimoto
(rokimoto@uark.edu)
University of Arkansas
GENETIC VARIATION IN PIGMENTATION AND FEED EFFICIENCY OF BROILERS

12:00-1:00PM
LUNCH

1:00-1:30PM
Thomas Wicker
(wicker@uga.edu)
University of Georgia
THE REPETITIVE LANDSCAPE OF THE CHICKEN GENOME: COMBINING DNA-REASSOCIATION KINETICS, SEQUENCING OF REPETITIVE CLONES AND BIOINFORMATICS

1:30-2:00PM
Marcia Miller
(MaMiller@coh.org)
B AND Rfp-Y GENES IN THE JUNGLE FOWL MHC

2:00-2:30PM
Douglas Foster
(foste001@tc.umn.edu)
DEVELOPMENT OF IMMORTALIZED CHICKEN AND TURKEY CELL SUBSTRATES FOR PRODUCTIONS OF BIOLOGICS

2:30-3:00PM
Jim Pettite
Station Report

3:30-4:00PM
Urs Kuhnlein
(Kuhnleinu@macdonald.mcgill.ca)
McGill
KEY REGULATORY GENES OF THE CELL METABOLISM AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH DIFFERENCES IN IMMUNE RESPONSIVENESS AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MD VIRUS

4:00-4:30PM
GUEST PRESENTATIONS

4:30-5:00PM
BUSINESS MEETING

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