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Subject: POULTRY GENOME NEWSLETTER 2013, Issue No. 1,
January, 2013
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:57:18 -0600
**POULTRY GENOME NEWSLETTER 2013**
Issue No. 1, January, 2013
Poultry Genome Newsletters are distributed through the Angenmap Discussion
Group and are archived at http://poultry.mph.msu.edu/...ewsltrs/newsltrs.htm.
PAG XXI & NAGRP/NC-1170 Meeting: Happy New Year!!
PAG-XXI/NRSP-8/NC-1170 (http://www.intlpag.org) will be January 12-16, 2013,
in sunny San Diego. The Poultry Workshop will start at 8 a.m., Saturday
(Jan. 12). Doug Rhoads and Carl Schmidt are organizing. An excellent
Workshop program has been assembled and can be found using the pull-down
program menu at http://www.intlpag.org, clicking "Program Schedule" and
searching for Poultry. Similarly, the NRSP-8 Animal Workshop will run
1:30-6:00 pm on Sunday (Jan. 13) with guest speakers: Leif Andersson,
Trudy Mackay, Harris Lewin and Max Rothschild. Special congratulations to
Max, this year's NRSP-8 Distinguished Lecturer. Congratulations also to
Huiyu Wang of the U. of Georgia (I. Misztal, mentor), this year's recipient
of the Neal Jorgensen Travel Award in poultry and to the recipients of
travel awards supported by the USDA conference grant to Doug and Carl.
Note that you have the opportunity to meet and hear from all these awardees
during the "Lightning Talks" at 5:20 on Saturday during the Poultry
Workshop. A note to speakers: Please load your presentation well in
advance at the speaker Ready Room.
PAG-ASIA: On March 17-19, 2013 there will also be a new 2.5 day conference,
PAG-ASIA, in Singapore (http://www.intlpagasia.org) at the Grand Copthorne
Waterfront Hotel.
Good-Bye Critt. You will be missed.
As most newsletter readers know, Lyman "Critt" Crittenden passed away at the
age of 86 after a brief illness this past September 25. Critt was a pioneer
in poultry genetics in many ways, among these playing a central role in the
elucidation of the mechanism of host resistance to avian tumor viruses,
developing one of the first DNA marker-based linkage maps of the chicken and
serving as the first National Animal Genome Research Program Poultry
Coordinator. Even after his retirement from USDA-ARS, he continued to play
a major role in the effort that led to NRSP-8, high density linkage maps and
the reference genome sequence of the chicken. Probably more important, he
served as a mentor, colleague and role model to nearly all of us who've spent
much time working in the field of poultry genetics.
WASHINGTON UPDATE
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) issued the RFA for
the 2013 AFRI Foundational Program on Oct. 15. The letter of intent date for
most animal-related programs was Nov. 15 (due dates for submission were
recently delayed to Jan. 16, 2013.) An estimated $136 million was made
available to the Foundational Program with $33M designated for Animal Health
and Production and Animal Products, which includes Animal Reproduction, Animal
Health and Disease, Animal Nutrition, Growth, and Lactation and Tools and
Resources for Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics. The FY 2013 NIFA
Fellowships Program RFA providing fellowships to pre- and postdoctoral
students now has a letter of intent due date of January 17, 2013, with full
applications due March 14, 2013. The current estimated release date for the
FY 2014 Foundational Program is August 15, 2013. Keep your eye on
http://www.nifa.usda.gov/.../afri.html to get updated information for these
and other related AFRI grant programs, including Food Security and Food
Safety Challenge Grants.
However, given the recent escape from the "Fiscal Cliff", it remains unclear
what will happen with FY2014 USDA research programs and funding levels. It's
also unclear if and when Congress will pass the Agriculture Reform, Food,
and Jobs Act (2012 Farm Bill) which would have reauthorized NIFA and AFRI
through 2017 (at about current funding levels). This bill failed to make it
through the House, despite last minute, years-end lobbying on its behalf.
Hopefully, the new Congress will find a way to pass a 2013 Farm Bill in the
coming session (New Year's resolution).
NRSP-8 and NC-1170 Re-submissions
Both the NRSP-8 and NC-1170 projects have been revised and resubmitted for
review this year, hopefully leading to reauthorization, come next October.
Thanks to Tom Porter and Milt Thomas for leading the resubmission of NRSP-8
and the detailed response to reviewers that this entailed. Similarly, thanks
to Mary Delany who coordinated the NC-1170 rewrite, despite the fact that
she was subsequently drafted into being interim Dean of Agriculture at UC
Davis.
Weigh in on poultry genomics resource needs
The NRSP-8 poultry genome coordinators need your input on community
resources that we can support, at least in part. Last year we supported
600K Affymetrix SNP array genotyping of birds for several members and have
engaged in discussions of possible future support of optical mapping to
improve the genome sequence. Others ways to enhance the reference chicken
genome assembly are being explored and Cobb Vantress, Inc. recently
committed funds that Wes Warren at the Washington U. Genome Institute will
use to help close some of the gaps in the sequence. We depend on your ideas,
so please email them to either dodgson@msu.edu or hchengmsu.edu.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN. UPCOMING MEETINGS:
Updated meeting info. is also available at
http://www.animalgenome.org/share/mtg_chic.html.
Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics,
"Genetics of Complex Disease," Feb. 17-22, 2013, Hotel Galvez,
Galveston, TX. More information at
http://www.grc.org/...013&program=quantgen This
conference will be preceded by a Gordon Research Seminar, "Genetics of
Complex Phenotypes" Feb. 16-17 at the same location, primarily for grad
students and postdocs.
PAG ASIA, March 17-19, 2013, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel,
Singapore. Details at www.intlpagasia.org <http://www.intlpagasia.org>;
Human Genome Meeting/International Congress of Genetics: Genetics and
Genomics of Global Health and Sustainability, April 13-18, 2013, Suntec,
Singapore. Details at http://www.hgm2013-icg.org/
Poultry Science Association Annual Meeting, July 21-25, 2013, Town & Country
Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA.
Plant & Animal Genome Conference, PAG XXII, Jan. 11-15, 2014, Town & Country
Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA. Information available
at http://www.intlpag.org/
Poultry Genome Newsletter Archive
Poultry Genome Newsletters are distributed electronically through Angenmap,
the Animal Genome Discussion Group
(http://www.animalgenome.org/community/discuss). Previous newsletters are
archived as .pdf files at http://poultry.mph.msu.edu/...ewsltrs/newsltrs.htm.
PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR INPUT
The Poultry Coordinators are always glad to hear from NRSP-8 members and
other readers about ways that we can improve the coordination effort or
provide resources that are needed and with which we may be able to help.
Also, let us know if you have items of general interest to the poultry
genetics community that we can include in this Newsletter. PICTURES and
GRAPHICS are especially welcome for our .pdf versions of the newsletter.
Supported by Multi-State Research Funds to the National Research Service
Program: NRSP-8. National Animal Genome Research Program, Lakshmi
Matukumalli, NAGRP Director, USDA-NIFA
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