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A Bimonthly Newsletter of the U.S. Pig Genome Coordination Program
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1. British Pig Breeders Roundtable at the Wye College in Kent
2. Bioinformatics meeting made easy!!
3. Exploring Horizons for Domestic Animal Genomics is online
4. Next NC-220 Annual Meeting of Swine Breeding Regional Research
Project at Iowa State University
5. New tools still are available.
6. Upcoming meetings.
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An excellent group of 75 scientists, students and pork industry people
from 15 countries met April 17-19 at the British Pig Breeders Roundtable
at the Wye College in Kent. A total of 18 talks were presented that
covered various aspects of pig breeding including embryo technology
advances, sustainable breeding programs, closed herd genetic
improvement, QTL experiments with industry populations, imprinting,
genes for meat quality, functional genomics and selection for lean
growth. The casual atmosphere fostered interesting questions, debates
and late night discussion sessions. This year's meeting will be the
last to be organized by John King who has been organizing these every
other year meetings since 1965. The 2004 meeting will be organized by
the animal genetics group from the Roslin Institute.
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Bioinformatics meeting made easy!! You and your colleagues and students
may be interested in the day-long symposium, "Bioinformatics: Building
Bridges", that will be held at the University of Minnesota on Friday,
April 26, 2002. The symposium website is:
http://www.binf.umn.edu/bisymp02/ . While this announcement is late, the
webcast will be available as an indexed archive for two weeks after the
symposium. The webcast will be available from:
http://www.binf.umn.edu/bisymp02/webcast.html.
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Were you unable to attend the symposium "Exploring Horizons for Domestic
Animal Genomics" that was held at the National Academy of Science in
Washington DC on February 19? You may now listen to and review the
meeting at the web address
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/banr/Exploring_Horizons_Workshop.html.
The Real Audio player will be needed in order to run the media files.
Featured speakers included Dr. Stephen O'Brien (National Cancer
Institute) "The Landscape of Comparative Genomics in Mammals", Dr.
Steve Kappes (USDA): "Animal Genomics Research in the U.S.-Where We Are
and Where We're Going", Dr. Michel Georges (University of Lieges,
Belgium) "An International Perspective on Current Animal Genomics
Programs", Dr. Harris Lewin (University of Illinois): "Livestock Genome
Sequencing Initiative: Status and Importance", Dr. Eric Green: (NIH):
"Multi-Species Comparative Sequencing of Targeted Genomic Regions", Dr.
Richard Gibbs (Baylor College of Medicine): "The Rat Genome Sequencing
Project" and Dr. Roger Wyse (Burrill & Company): "A Private Sector
Perspective: Financing Innovation." There were also three group
discussions involving: "Priorities for Genome Sequencing: Which
Species?", "How Can We Facilitate Data Sharing and Access?" and "What
are the Roles of the Public, Private, and NGO Sectors for Advancing
Genomics Research?" We will keep you posted on the status of the
workshop proceedings (provided by Mike Kisielewski).
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The next NC-220 Annual Meeting of the swine breeding regional research
project will be May 31-June 1 at Iowa State University. Hosted by Jack
Dekkers and Max Rothschild, there will be interesting talks by some ISU
scientists and experiment station reports. An evening of fun and
applied probability exercises (horse racing) is planned for May 31.
This extremely successful project is ending after many years and will be
merged with the pig functional genetics project (NC-210). All
interested persons can contact Jack Dekkers at jdekkers@iastate.edu.
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New tools are being considered for sharing. One of the projects the US
Pig Genome Coordinator is now working on is to make either gene chips or
microarray materials available to each lab at a reduced cost. To date
several parties have suggested some interest. If you have interest,
please contact the US Pig Genome Coordinator at mfrothsc@iastate.edu.
In addition, new pig microsatellite diversity primers (set XI) were made
in response to requests and suggestions concerning pig diversity
research and selected from markers across all 19 pig chromosomes. More
information on all sets of primers can be found at the web site:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/resources/fprimerintr.html. A new public
porcine expressed sequence tagged (EST) database, a set of tools for EST
analysis and a web query tool for public access to this database has
been developed (http://pigest.genome.iastate.edu).
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Upcoming meetings (for more details see:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/community/meetings.html)
NC-220 meeting, May 31-June 1, Ames IA. For details contact Jack
Dekkers at jdekkers@iastate.edu.
International Pig Veterinary Society meetings, Ames, IA June 2-5. For
details see http://www.ipvs2002.vetmed.iastate.edu/.
International Society of Animal Genetics, G�ttingen, Germany, August
11-15, 2002. See http://www.gwdg.de/~bbrenig/ISAG2002.html for further
information.
7th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, August
19-23, 2002, Montpellier, France. See http://www.wcgalp.org for more
information.
Additional items can be found at:
http://www.agbiotechnet.com/calendar/index.asp.
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Contributions to Pig Genome Update 55 including short meeting announcements
are always welcome. Please send by June 10.
Max Rothschild
U.S. Pig Genome Coordinator
2255 Kildee Hall, Department of Animal Science
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: 515-294-6202, Fax: 515-294-2401
mfrothsc@iastate.edu
cc: Dick Frahm, CSREES and Caird Rexroad II, ARS
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