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Vice-Chair/Secretary: Don Miller, Cornell University

Speakers:

Saturday January 12, Pacific Salon 1

1:20 pm
Claire Wade, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA (claire@broad.mit.edu)
"Preliminary Analysis Of The Equine Genome Sequence"

1:50 pm
David Adelson, Adelaide University, Australia (david.adelson@adelaide.edu.au)
"Identification And Annotation Of Repeats In The Equine Genome"

2:15 pm
Ottmar Distl, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany (Ottmar.Distl@tiho-hannover.de)
"Development Of A BAC-Based Physical Map Of The Horse Genome"

2:40 pm
Tosso Leeb, University of Berne, Switzerland (tosso.leeb@itz.unibe.ch)
"Are There Any Horse-Specific Genes?"

2:55-3:10
Coffeee Break

3:10 pm
Nandina Paria, Texas A & M University, USA (nparia@cvm.tamu.edu)
"Identification of Y-linked Candidate Genes for Male Fertility in Horses"

3:25 pm
Keith Durkin, Texas A & M University, USA (kdurkin@cvm.tamu.edu)
"Narrowing of a translocation breakpoint to a single BAC in a thoroughbred stallion carrying a translocation between chromosomes 5 and 16. "

3:40 pm
Gus Cothran, Texas A & M University, USA (gcothran@cvm.tamu.edu)
"Origins of modern horses - the Iberian missing link"

3:55 pm
Bianca Haase, University of Berne, Switzerland (Bianca.Haase@itz.unibe.ch)
"Allelic Heterogeneity At The Equine Kit Locus In Dominant White (W) Horses From Several Populations"

4:10 pm
Lisa Andersson , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden (lisa.andersson@hgen.slu.se)
"Mapping the causative mutation for Anterior Segment Dysgenesis in the horse"

4:25 pm
Molly McCue, University of Minnesota, USA (mccu0173@umn.edu)
"Glycogen Synthase 1 mutation and Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy in diverse horse breeds"

4:40-4:50
Coffeee Break

4:50 pm
"Station Reports"

Sunday, January 13, Pacific Salon 2

1:20 pm
Ottmar Distl, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany (Ottmar.Distl@tiho-hannover.de)
"Markers Associated With Osteochondrosis And Navicular Disease In Hanoverian Warmblood And South German Coldblood Horses"

1:35 pm
June Swinburne, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK (june.swinburne@aht.org.uk)
"Mapping genes associated with Recurrent Airway Obstruction in horses"

1:50 pm
Alan Nixon, Cornell University, USA (ajn1@cornell.edu )
"Development And Characterization Of A Novel Large-Scale Whole Transcript Oligonucleotide Exon Array For The Horse"

2:10 pm
Michael Mienaltowski, University of Kentucky, USA (M.Mski@uky.edu )
"Transcriptional Differences Between Articular Chondrocytes And Cells that Populate Repair Tissue Within Full Thickness Articular Lesions"

2:25 pm
Eve Ramery, University of Liege, Belgium (eve.ramery@student.ulg.ac.be)
"Using human microarray to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying equine heaves"

2:40 pm
Beatrice McGivney, University College Dublin, Ireland (Beatrice.McGivney@ucd.ie)
"Equine cDNA microarrays and the Transcriptomic Response of Thoroughbred Skeletal Muscle to Exercise"

2:55 pm
Charlie Nelson, Agilent Technologies ()
"Designing Custom Microarrays for Model Organisms"

3:15 pm
"Wrap-up and Closing Remarks"

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