Saturday Speakers:

1. 8:00 am
Jim Reecy, Iowa State University (jreecy@iastate.edu)
"Welcome"

2. 8:05 am
Laurens Wilming, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (lw2@sanger.ac.uk)
"Issues Confronting Manual Annotation of Genomes"

3. 8:50 am
Janan Eppig, The Jackson Laboratories (jte@informatics.jax.org)
"Mouse Genome Database"

4. 9:35 am
Carlos Bustamante, Cornell University (cdb28@cornell.edu)
"Evolutionary History & Population Genetics Theory"

5. 10:20 am
"Coffee Break"

6. 10:30 am
Anne Kwitek, Medical College of Wisconsin (akwitek@mcw.edu)
"Rat Genome Project"

7. 11:15 AM
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine (agibbs@bcm.tmc.edu)
"ENCODE"

8. 12:00 noon
"Lunch"

9. 1:15 pm
Tad Sonstegard, USDA-ARS/BARC (Tad.Sonstegard@ars.usda.gov)
"Description and Analysis of the Bovine Gene Atlas - An Extensive Compendium of Bovine Transcript Profiles"

10. 2:00 pm
Christine Elsik, Department of Biology, Georgetown University (ce75@georgetown.edu)
"Update On Bovine Genome Annotation"

11. 2:45 pm
Jan Aerts, Bioinformatics Group, Roslin Institute (jan.aerts@bbsrc.ac.uk)
"MIQAS - Minimal Information about QTL and Association Studies"

12. 3:30 pm
"Adjourn"

Sunday Speakers:

1) 8:00 AM
Timothy Smith, U.S. Meat and Animal Research Center (tim.smith@ars.usda.gov)
"Simultaneous SNP Marker Generation and Minor Allele Frequency Estimation by Coupling Reduced Genome Representation with High Throughput Sequencing"

2) 8:20 AM
Lakshmi Makumalli, USDA-ARS, Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory (LMATUKUM@anri.barc.usda.gov)
"Characterization of the Cattle HapMap Population using the Illumina Bovine-50K SNP Chip"

3) 8:40 AM
Robert Schnabel, Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri (schnabelr@missouri.edu)
"Application of the BovineSNP50 Assay for QTL Mapping and Prediction of Genetic Merit in Holstein Cattle"

4) 9:00 AM
Stephen Moore, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta (stephen.moore@afhe.ualberta.ca)
"A High-Resolution Radiation Hybrid Map of the Bovine Genome"

5) 9:20 AM
Sue DeNise, MMI Genomics, Inc. (sue.denise@mmigenomics.com)
"Strategies for Creating Value in Feedlot Cattle using Genomic Diagnostic Markers"

6) 9:40 AM
Charles Sattler, Select Sires, Inc. (csattler@naab-css.org)
"TBD"

7) 10:00 AM
"Coffee Break"

8) 10:20 AM
Marleen Visker, Animal Breeding and Genomics Center, Wageningen University (Marleen.Visker@wu)
"Identification of Genes Involved in Milk Composition "

9) 10:40 AM
James Kijas, CSIRO Livestock Industries (james.kijas@csiro.au)
"Preliminary Survey of SNP Variation within the Sheep Genome"

10) 11:00 AM
John McEwan, AgResearch (john.mcewan@agresearch.co.nz)
"454 Sequencing And SNP Discovery in Sheep: Project Design and Interim Results"

11) 11:20 AM
Matt McDonagh, Department of Primary Industries Victoria - Biosciences Research Division (Matthew.McDonagh@dpi.vic.gov.au)
"Proteomic Analysis of Fore- and Hind-Quarter Muscle Development at 1 and 12 Weeks of Age in Sheep"

12) 11:40 AM
Brian Dalrymple, CSIRO Research Industries (brian.dalrymple@csiro.au)
"Toward A Sheep Genome Assembly"

13) 12:10 PM
"Lunch Break"

14) 1:15 PM
Hutton Oddy, University of New England (hutton.oddy@une.edu.au)
"A Reference Genome for Sheep"

15) 1:35 PM
Massoud Malek, FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory (massoud.malek@iaea.org)
"Goat Genomics at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)"

16) 1:55 PM
Jolena Fleming-Waddell, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University (jnflemin@purdue.edu)
"Multiple Microarray Analyses to Determine Differential Gene Expression in Hypertrophied Muscles of Callipyge Sheep"

17) 2:15 PM
"NRSP-8 Station Report - Committee Members"

18) 4:00 PM
"Adjourn"

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