PAG Swine Workshop

Swine Workshop

Sunday Morning, 9 January 2000 --- 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
and
Sunday Afternoon, 9 January 2000 --- 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Swine Workshop - Pacific Salon 6 & 7 Rooms

Organizer: Deryl Troyer, Kansas State University

(troyer@vet.ksu.edu)

Vice-Chair: Cathy Ernst, Michigan State University

(ernstc@pilot.msu.edu)


8:30 am Gary Rohrer, Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center

(rohrer@email.marc.usda.gov)
Fine Mapping a QTL on the X Chromosome with Interesting Pleiotropic Effects

9:00 am Dirk-Jan deKoning, Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences, The Netherlands

(dirk-jan.dekoning@alg.vf.wau.nl)
Evidence for non-Mendelian Control of Body Composition Traits in Meishan Crossbreds

9:30am Station reports

10:30am Break

11:00 Station reports

12:45 pm Max Rothschild, Iowa State University,
Coordinator Report

1:10 pm Advisors' reports: Dick Frahm, USDA/CSREES and Colin Scanes, Iowa State University

1:30 pm Break for lunch

2:30pm Hiroshi Yasue, National Institute of Animal Industry, Japan

(hyasue@niai.affrc.go.jp)
Allele Segregation Distortion of a Specific Genetic Region in a Pig Family

3:00 pm David Meeker, The Ohio State University

(meeker.40@osu.edu)
Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in the U.S. Pork Industry

3:30 pm Vernon Pursel, ARS, USDA, Beltsville

(vpursel@Lpsi.barc.usda.gov)
Alteration of Carcass Composition in Swine with an IGF1 Transgene

4:00pm Station reports

4:45pm Industry Representative reports

5:00pm Business Meeting


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