International PAG Poultry Workshop Poultry Workshop

Saturday, 13 January 2007 --- 9:00 am - 6:20 pm and Sunday, 14 January 2007 --- 8:30 am - 3:25 pm

Poultry Workshop - Sunset Room

Organizers: Tom Porter, University of Maryland

(teporter@umd.edu)

and

Kent Reed,University of Minnesota

(reedx054@umn.edu)

Speakers:

Saturday, 13 January 2007

9:10 AM Saturday
Hans Cheng and Huanmin Zhang, USDA-Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory (hcheng@msu.edu)
"Genetic characterization of Marek's disease resistance"

9:40 AM Saturday
Douglas Rhoads and Wayne Kuenzel, University of Arkansas (wkuenzel@uark.edu)
"Genetic analysis and mapping of sperm degeneration in broiler breeders" and "Potential genes involved in activation of gonadal development in male chicks"

10:30 AM Saturday
Mary Delany, University of California-Davis (medelany@ucdavis.edu)
"Cytogenetic analysis of telomeres in normal and transformed chicken cells"

11:00 AM Saturday
Marcia Miller, City of Hope, National Medical Center (mamiller@coh.org)
"Potential Disease Resistance Genes in the Chicken MHC-B Extended Class II Region" "

11:30 AM Saturday
Shane Burgess, Mississippi State University (Burgess@cvm.msstate.edu)
"AgBase: Facilitating Analysis of Chicken Functional Genomics Datasets"

11:50 AM Saturday
Sammy Aggrey, University of Georgia (saggrey@uga.edu)
"Molecular basis for feed efficiency"

1:30 PM Saturday
William Muir, Purdue University (bmuir@purdue.edu)
"Innate Genetic Differences In Birds Differing In Aggressive Behavior As Determined By Affymetrix Genechip Chicken Genome Array"

2:00 PM Saturday
Huaijun Zhou, Texas A&M University (hjzhou@poultry.tamu.edu)
"Development of new chicken genome array and its application"

2:30 PM Saturday
Ed Smith and Eric Wong, Virginia Tech (ewong@vt.edu)
"Dissection of genetic factors for immune response and round heart heart disease in birds" and "Differential expression of intestinal nutrient transporters in posthatch broilers"

3:30 PM Saturday
Jim Petitte and Chris Ashwell, North Carolina State University (j_petitte@ncsu.edu)
"Avian Primordial Germ Cells" and "Genomic Approaches To Identifying The Underlying Cause Of Traits Of Economic Importance In Poultry"

4:00 PM Saturday
Jerry Dodgson, Michicgan State University (dodgson@msu.edu)
"Progress towards a Turkey Genome Physical Map and Antiviral RNAi in Chicken Cells"

4:30 PM Saturday
Susan Lamont and Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University (sjlamont@iastate.edu)
"Application of high-density SNPs in chickens: linkage disequilibrium and trait-association results"

5:00 PM Saturday
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"TBA"

Sunday, 14 January 2007

8:30 AM Sunday
Kent Reed and Douglas Foster, University of Minnesota (reedx054@umn.edu)
"Refinement and application of genetic maps in the turkey" and "Gene expression in a fully immortalized CEF cell line" "

9:00 AM Sunday
Tom Porter and Jiuzhou Song, University of Maryland (teporter@umd.edu)
"Characterization of genetic polymorphisms and gene expression related to body fat"

9:30 AM Sunday
Roger Coulombe, Utah State University (rogerc@cc.usu.edu)
"Characterizing Genes Associated with Aflatoxin B1 Hypersensitivity in Turkeys"

10:30 AM Sunday
Michael Romanov, Zoological Society of San Diego (MRomanov@sandiegozoo.org)
"Genomic resources and tools to investigate factors associated with chondrodystrophy in California condors"

11:15 AM Sunday
Elisabeth Lebihan-Duval , Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France (lebihan@tours.inra.fr)
"Recent Results On The Genetic Variation Of Chicken Technological Meat Quality" "

1:15 PM Sunday
Fred Leung, University of Hong Kong (fcleung@hkucc.hku.hk)
"A Chicken Full-Length cDNA Database And Its Applications"

2:00 PM Sunday
Helen Sang, Roslin Institute, Scotland (helen.sang@bbsrc.ac.uk)
"Applications Of Lentiviral Vector Transgenesis In The Chicken"

2:45 PM Sunday
Jerry Dodgson,
"NRSP-8 report"

Mo Saif and Muquarrab Qureshi,
"Administrators Reports"

and
"NC-1008 Business meeting"


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