Intl PAG-IX US Government Funding Workshop

Grants/Funding Workshop Grants/Funding Workshop

Sunday Afternoon, 14 January 2001 --- 3:45 pm - 6:30 pm

US Government Grants/Funding Workshop - - Royal Palm Salon 5 & 6 Rooms

Organizer:

Ed Kaleikau, USDA/CSREES
(ekaleikau@reeusda.gov)


Speakers:

INTRODUCTION 3:45 pm Rodney Foil, Director (USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES))

(rfoil@reeusda.gov)
The Initiative for Future Agricultural and Food Systems (IFAFS)

3:55 pm SESSION 1: ANIMAL GENOME
Colin Scanes, Iowa State University and Peter Brayton, USDA-CSREES

(pbrayton@reeusda.gov)

4:00 pm - 4:10 pm Lawrence Cogburn, University of Delaware

(cogburn@udel.edu)
A Consortium For Functional Mapping of Growth-Regulating Genes in Broiler Chickens

4:10 pm - 4:20 pm Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University

(jdekkers@iastate.edu)
Mapping and Use of QTL for Marker-Assisted Improvement of
Meat Quality in Pigs

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm Mark Jutila, Montana State University

(uvsmj@montana.edu)
Functional Genomics of Bovine gamma/delta T-Cells

4:30 pm - 4:40 pm George Shook, University of Wisconsin

(shook@calshp.cals.wisc.edu)
Genetic Resistance to Paratuberculosis in Dairy Cattle

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2: PLANT GENOME
5:00 pm - 5:05 pm Stan Gelvin, Purdue University and Liang Shiou Lin USDA-CSREES

(gelvin@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu)

5:05 pm - 5:15 pm Richard Michelmore, University of California - Davis

(rwmichelmore@ucdavis.edu)
Comparative Genomics of Domestication Traits in Lettuce and Sunflower

5:15 pm - 5:35 pm Andy Paterson, University of Georgia

(paterson@dogwood.botany.uga.edu)
Reducing the Genetic Vulnerability of Cotton

5:25 pm - 5:35 pm Zhixiang Chen, University of Idaho

(zchen@uidaho.edu)
Functional Genomics of WRKY Gene Family from Rice

5:35 pm - 5:45 pm CharlesBrummer, Iowa State University

(brummer@iastate.edu )
The Genetic Basis of Winter Hardiness in Alfalfa

5:45 pm - 5:55 pm Richard Amasino, University of Wisconsin

(amasino@biochem.wisc.edu)
Development of Genomic Tools and Resources for Brassica oleracea

SESSION 3: BIOINFORMATICS
5:55 pm - 6:00 pm Stan Gelvin, Purdue University and Gail Mclean, USDA-CSREES

(gelvin@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu)

6:00 pm - 6:10 pm Rebecca Doerge, Purdue University

(doerge@purdue.edu)
Development of Statistical Methodology for Agricultural Genomics

6:10 pm - 6:20 pm Lincoln Stein, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

(steinl@cshl.org)
Gramene: A Resource for Comparative Grass Genomics

6:20 pm - 6:30 pm Closing remarks

6:30 pm Adjourn

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