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Pig Genome Newsletter #064
P I G G E N O M E U P D A T E
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A Bimonthly Newsletter of the U.S. Pig Genome Coordination Program
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* January 1, 2004 *
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1. ISU-UI-USDA-NSIF jointly held swine QTL workshop and annual meeting
2. See you in San Diego for Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) XII
3. Pig arrays can be ordered now
4. Deadlines for 2004 NRI RFA were announced
5. Help us save money - email copy of Pig Genome Update available
6. Upcoming meetings
7. A special Thank You for your help and support
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Happy Holidays and New Year to you, your families and colleagues!!
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Swine QTL discovery and implementation were the topics at the jointly held
ISU - UI - USDA and National Swine Improvement Federation (NSIF) sponsored
workshop and annual meeting that met December 5-6 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Despite the snow, the meeting was well attended by over 110 producers,
swine industry personnel, researchers and students. A unique part of the
program was a one-day workshop planned with funding from an USDA IFAS
grant to Iowa State University and the University of Illinois. The
workshop featured talks on QTL and candidate gene discovery and their use
in marker assisted selection. Several QTL results from experiments at
ISU, UI, UN, MSU, USDA and other locations were also presented. On day
two, which was the NSIF meeting, several companies and industry groups
including the Canadian Center for Swine Improvement, Gentec N.V., Babcock
Genetics, Monsanto Choice Genetics, Sygen/PIC and NSR presented their
marker discovery and implementation programs related to a number of
traits. Additional talks discussed were biosecurity, selection for IMF
and selection for disease resistance. The large attendance and the superb
program made the meeting a real success. A special thanks goes out to the
NSIF secretary Dr. Ken Stalder, ISU, and program chair, Dr. Jack Dekkers,
ISU for all their efforts. Program papers can be found in the near future
at http://www.nsif.com.
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See you in San Diego!!! The Plant and Animal Genome XII will again be at
the Town & Country Convention Center in San Diego, CA, from Saturday,
January 10 through Wednesday, January 14, 2004. In addition to the
outstanding plenary speakers that are scheduled, an excellent joint 2004
PAG Swine Workshop and NC1004 meeting is being planned by chair Dr. Diane
Moody. This workshop will be held on Saturday and Sunday morning, January
10-11. Invited speakers will be describing a contig sequence from porcine
chromosome 6 (Tosso Leeb), recombineering as a tool for harvesting genomic
information (Larry Schook), and the implementation of marker assisted
selection in commercial swine populations (Archie Clutter). Invited talks
will be followed by coordinator, administrator, and station reports. A
Sunday morning session will be devoted to a discussion of priorities,
needs, and activities of the swine research community. A preliminary
schedule and additional information for the meeting are found at:
http://www.intl-pag.org/12/12-swine.html. Also of interest is the NAGRP
business meeting which will be on Monday evening. A very limited amount
of support might be available for NRSP-8 members and student
participation. Please email the Coordinator at mfrothsc@iastate.edu.
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Pig arrays can be ordered now!! Materials needed to produce a 13,000
element oligo array have been produced. Pig Genome Coordinator funds were
used to buy the oligos and will be used to partially fund printing of
these oligos on to glass slides. Initial printing of about 400 slides for
the community will take place. To insure that the arrays are not wasted,
individual researchers can request 20 free arrays and later up to 50
additional ones but they will be responsible for the printing costs of the
additional ones. Printing costs will be $20 dollars a slide and will be
billed directly to the researcher from the University of Minnesota
facility where they will be printed. Two steps are required to order the
arrays. Please go to the following web site:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/resources/array_request.html to place an
order. Please note, to get the information on the gene list you must sign
the Qiagen non-disclosure agreement (NDA). This likely requires visiting
with your purchasing and or intellectual property office on your campus.
Shipping will occur after you specify by email when you want the arrays.
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Deadlines for 2004 NRI RFA were announced. Please go to the NRI website
(www.reeusda.gov/nri/) for details. Most importantly, deadline dates have
been changed such that Animal Protection (includes former animal health
programs) and Animal Reproduction deadlines are Jan. 9, 2004 and those for
Animal Genomics, Animal Genome Reagent & Tool Development and Functional
Genomics of Agriculturally Important Organisms are June 15, 2004. Total
2004 NRI funding remains uncertain, but was set at $165M in the conference
report of the Consolidated Appropriations Bill passed by the U.S. House
and scheduled to be taken up by the Senate in January. New,
multi-institutional special programs have been added to the '04 RFA, but
it is unclear how much these will detract from typical individual
investigator-based awards. Funding limits have also increased, most often
to a total of $500,000 (varies depending on program). The indirect cost
limit remains at 19% of total grant funds but may increase to 20% after
the Bill passes (details supplied by J. Dodgson).
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Help us save money!! If you would prefer to just receive an email copy of
Pig Genome Update please email Max Rothschild at mfrothsc@iastate.edu or
Ann Shuey at ashuey@iastate.edu and we will remove you from the printed
mailing list. You can receive your newsletter by following these easy
directions. To subscribe to Angenmap, send an email to
angenmap-request@db.genome.iastate.edu and put in the Subject line the key
word "subscribe" and you will be one of nearly 1,000 users of this list
serve.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/community/meetings.html)
Plant, Animal and Microbial Genome XII, joint with the NAGRP annual
meetings, Jan. 10-14, 2004, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego,
CA. Please see www.intl-pag.org/ for information.
Midwestern American Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting, March
15-17, 2001 at the Polk County Convention Center, Des Moines, Iowa. For
information please contact http://www.asas.org/midwest/2004/index.html
British Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting, April 5-7, 2004, York
University. See www.bsas.org.uk/meetings/annual.htm.
British Pig Breeders Roundtable, April 21-23, 2004, Wye UK. For details
please contact Chris Haley at chris.haley@bbsrc.ac.uk
American Society of Animal Science- American dairy Science -Poultry
Science Association joint Meeting, July 25-29, 2004, St. Louis, MO. For
details see http://www.fass.org/2004/.
ISAG 2004, 29th International Conference on Animal Genetics, Sept. 11-16,
2004, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. For more
information see http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~isag2004/
Additional items can be found at:
http://www.agbiotechnet.com/calendar/index.asp.
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A special thank you to each of you for your help and support of my role as
coordinator. The success of this effort depends on all of us and this
year I have been blessed with excellent support from many of you. In
particular I want to thank Dr. Zhiliang Hu for his continued outstanding
help in database activities and Ms. Kim Glenn and Ms. Ann Shuey of the ISU
team who helped send out primers and process the newsletter. Finally, a
special "thank-you" to all who offered constructive suggestions and help
in getting the job done. I wish all of you a happy holiday season and
healthy and productive New Year.
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Contributions to Pig Genome Update 65 including short meeting announcements
are always welcome. Please send by February 15, 2004.
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: Muquarrab Qureshi, CSREES and Caird Rexroad II, ARS
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