Aquaculture Workshop - Council Room

Organizer: Thomas D.Kocher, University of New Hamsphire

(tom.kocher@unh.edu); Speakers:; 9:00 am - Takashi Aoki, Tokyo University of Fisheries; (aoki@tokyo-u-fish.ac.jp); Expressed Sequences Tags (ESTs) Analysis from Japanese Flounder; 9:20 am - Jonathan Wright, Dalhousie University; (jmwright@is.dal.ca); Physical Mapping of the Genome of Oreochromis niloticus by Fluorescent in situ Hybridization to Metaphase Chromosomes; 9:40 am - Roy Danzmann, University of Guelph; (rdanzman@uoguelph.ca); Finding the Genes That Count: The Search for QTL Regions in Rainbow Trout; 10:00 am - Bob Ward, CSIRO; (bob.ward@marine.csiro.au); Mapping Studies in Pacific Oysters, Crassostrea Gigas; 10:20 am - Break; 10:30 am - Hans Cheng, USDA/ARS; (hcheng@pilot.msu.edu); Lessons from Chicken Genome Mapping; Nomura Travel Awards (Student Papers); 11:00 am - Yniv Palti, Animal Science Institute, ARO, Israel; (michar@indycc1.agri.huji.ac.il); Sex Linkage And Non-mendelian Segregation Of Microsatellite DNA Markers In A Meiogenetic Family And Domestic Strains Of Tilapia (Oreochromis aureus and O. niloticus); 11:15 am - Karim Gharbi, Laboratoire de Genetique des Poissons, INRA; (gharbi@jouy.inra.fr); Comparative Microsatellites: Mapping in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Brown Trout (Salmo trutta); 11:30 am - Jeffrey Markert, University of New Hampshire; (markert@colsa.unh.edu); Gene-Centromere Distances in Tilapia; 11:45 am - Sophie Launey, University of California, Davis; (salauney@ucdavis.edu); Genetic Load Causes Segregation Distortion in Oysters: Mapping at 6 Hours; 12:00 noon - Lunch - On your own; Sunday Afternoon:; Progress Reports by species; 2:00 pm - John Liu, Auburn University; (zliu@acesag.auburn.edu); Catfish Gene Mapping: Current Status and Future Perspectives; 2:15 pm - Geoff Waldbieser, USDA ARS; (); Progress in Catfish Genome Research at USDA/ARS; 2:30 pm - Acacia Warren, Tufts University; (aalcivar@opal.tufts.edu); Efforts Towards Developing a Linkage Map for Penaeid Shrimp; 2:45 pm - Steve Moore,; (Steve.Moore@tag.csiro.au); Molecular tools for mapping the black tiger shrimp (P. monodon) genome; 3:00 pm - Thomas D.Kocher, University of New Hamsphire; (tom.kocher@unh.edu); Overview of Progress in Tilapia Genome Mapping; 3:10 pm - Jeremy Agresti, University of California, Davis; (jjagresti@ucdavis.edu); Interspecific Genetic Map and Breeding Program for Tilapia; 3:20 pm - Woo-Jai Lee, Biosoft AS; (lee@biosoft.no); Genetic Linkage Maps of Microsatellites in the Tilapia Genome; 3:30 pm - Coffee/Soda Break; 4:00 pm - Pat Gaffney, University of Delaware; (pgaffney@udel.edu); Overview of Progress in Genome Mapping in Oysters; 4:10 pm - Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Keio University School of Medicine; (shimizu@dmb.med.keio.ac.jp); Construction of BAC and cDNA Libraries of Pacific Oyster and Initial Sequencing Results; 4:20 pm - Ximing Guo, Haskin Shellfish Research Lab, Rutgers University; (xguo@vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu); Characterization and Identification of Oyster Chromosomes by FISH; 4:30 pm - Gary Thorgaard, Washington State University; (thorglab@wsu.edu); Overview of Progress in Genome Mapping in Salmonids; 4:45 pm - Kate Lindner, University of Montana; (KLINDNER@SELWAY.UMT.EDU); Construction of a Linkage Map of the Pink Salmon Genome
: 5:00 pm - Annual Business Meeting, Regional Project NE-186 (Genetic Maps of Aquaculture Species); Chaired by Thomas D. Kocher, University of New Hampshire; (tom.kocher@unh.edu); - Summary of progress by Project Objectives; - Development of the Annual Report; 6:00 pm - Adjourn for Dinner; 8:00 pm - Tiki Hut; Aquaculture Reception sponsored by the Nomura Foundation, Biosoft AS and Monsanto.