International PAG Cattle/Sheep Workshop Cattle/Sheep Workshop Cattle/Sheep Workshop

Sunday, 14 January 2007 --- 8:00 am - 6:20 pm

Cattle/Sheep Workshop Pacific Salon 1 & 2

Organizer: Christopher Bidwell, Purdue University

(cbidwell@purdue.edu)

Speakers:

1. 8:00 AM
Michel Georges, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege (michel.georges@ulg.ac.be)
"To Be Announced"

2. 8:50 AM
Noelle Cockett, Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences Utah State University (noelle.cockett@usu.edu)
"An Update from the International Sheep Genome Consortium"

3. 9:20 AM
Sean McWilliam, CSIRO Livestock Industries & International Sheep Genomics Consortium (sean.mcwilliam@csiro.au)
"Using Comparative Genomics to Refine Our View of the Sheep Genome"

4. 9:40 AM
Jolena Fleming-Waddell, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University (jnflemin@purdue.edu)
"Gene Expression during the Onset of Muscle Hypertrophy in Callipyge Lambs "

5. 10:00
"Coffee Break"

6. 10:30
Curt Van Tassel, USDA-ARS Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory (curtvt@anri.barc.usda.gov)
"An Overview of the Bovine HapMap Project"

7. 10:50 AM
Fiona McCarthy, Department of Basic Sciences, Mississippi State University (fmccarthy@cvm.msstate.edu)
"AgBase: Enabling Functional Genomics Analysis in Ruminants"

8. 11:10 AM
Christine Elsik, Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University (c-elsik@neo.tamu.edu)
"Plans for Bovine Genome Annotation"

9. 11:30 AM
Diane Spurlock, Department of Animal Sciences, Iowa State University (moodyd@iastate.edu)
"Adipokine Expression in Dairy Cows"

10. 11:50 AM
Erdogan Memili, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Mississippi State University (em149@ads.msstate.edu)
"Physiological Genomics of Preimplantation Bovine Embryogenesis"

12. 12:10
"Lunch Break"

11. 1:30 PM
Fiona Buchanan, Department of Animal and Poultry Science University of Saskatchewan (fiona.buchanan@usask.ca)
"The Genetics of Behaviour in Beef Cattle"

14. 1:50 PM
Zhihua Jiang, Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University (jiangz@wsu.edu)
"Pathway-Based QTL Mapping for Beef Marbling and Subcutaneous Fat Depth"

15. 2:10 PM
Elisa Marques, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta (emarques@ualberta.ca)
"Polymorphisms in the Bovine Fibroblast Growth Factor 8 Gene are Associated with Carcass Quality and Growth Traits in Beef Cattle"

16. 2:30 PM
"NRSP-8 Station Reports - Committee Members"

17. 4:00 "Adjourn
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