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Pig Genome Newsletter #060
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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| May 1, 2003 |
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1. Pig Array Nearing Completion
2. Voting for and Selection of the New Coordinators for NRSP-8 Concluded
3. Your Help in Sharing Microsatellite Primers is Needed
4. Budget Issues Remain Unresolved and New Grant Deadlines
5. Next Year's PAG-XII will be Held January 10-14, 2004
6. Upcoming Meetings
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Pig array nearing completion. Materials needed to produce a 13,000 element
oligo array are nearing completion. Thanks to the activities of a committee
from NRSP (Chris Tuggle, Daniel Pomp (co-chairs), Mike Murtaugh, Diane
Moody, Jon Beever and Cathy Ernst) real progress is being made on the
development of pig arrays. The committee tackled the challenge of choosing
cDNA arrays versus oligos and has compared vendors. At this point final
issues on a purchase agreement with the vendor and the spotting facility
are being resolved. The array with 13,000 70-mer oligos should be ready
for distribution to NRSP-8 members in late May. The plan will be to use
Pig Genome Coordinator funds to buy the oligos and partially fund printing
of these oligos on to glass slides. Initial printing of between 400-500
slides for the community will take place. To insure that the arrays are not
wasted, individual researchers can request 10 free arrays and up to 40
additional ones but they will be responsible for the printing costs of the
additional ones. If more than 500 need to be printed this will then happen
upon request to the printing facility. We owe a big thank you to all that
have helped offer opinions and help, especially the committee for their
good work.
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The voting for and selection of the new coordinators for NRSP-8 has
concluded. The following individuals/teams have been selected as
designates for the new project if approved. They are for Aquaculture: John
Liu; Cattle: Jim Womack; Equine: Ernie Bailey; Poultry: Jerry Dodson/Hans
Cheng; Sheep: Noelle Cockett; Swine: Max Rothschild and for the Database
coordinator: an Iowa State team of Jim Reecy, Max Rothschild, Susan Lamont,
and Chris Tuggle. Congratulations to each of you. We learned through our
administrative advisor, Dr. Gretel Dentine, that our new project is moving
through the approval process and we will probably not have final word until
the September meeting of the Experiment Station Directors. We have had
encouraging word come out of the North Central region. It is imperative
that each of you speaks to your Station Directors and get their support of
this worthwhile project.
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Your help in sharing microsatellite primers is needed!! We have been
sharing over 11 primer sets world wide for the past 10 years and have
recently run out of them. However, the demand continues from many places
around the world. If you have unused sets and the documentation is still
good and you reside in the US please return them to Pig Genome Coordinator
Max Rothschild, 2255 Kildee Hall, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa 50011.
If you are in a foreign country please notify the Coordinator by email to
arrange for shipping to a requesting lab near you. Your willingness to
help will be greatly appreciated.
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Budget issues remain unresolved and new grant deadlines will be in force
this year. As with most Federal programs, USDA is operating on a
continuing resolution. This will hopefully reach resolution soon. Deb
Hamernik reported at PAG that prospects for increased grant funding (as
initially passed, at least in the Senate) are now bleak, and the best they
could hope for was similar funding in FY 2003 as was received in 2002. The
2003 USDA-CSREES NRI grant program deadline dates for the Animal Genome and
Genetic Mechanisms (43.0) and the associated Animal Genome: Basic Reagents
and Tools (43.1) were moved forward to January 15, 2003 this year. For FY
2004, these deadline dates will move even earlier, to December 1, 2003.
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Next year's PAG-XII will be held January 10-14, 2004 again in San Diego at
the same location. Plenary speakers will begin to be invited soon. If you
have speaker suggestions or other comments, please contact one of the
organizing committee representatives (Abel Ponce de Leon, apl@umn.edu;
Cathy Ernst, ernstc@msu.edu; Bhanu Chowdhary, bchowdhary@cvm.tamu.edu;
Noelle Cockett, fanoelle@cc.usu.edu; or Martien Groenen,
martien.groenen@alg.vf.wau.nl).
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/community/meetings.html)
International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics, May 9-11, 2003,
Kellogg Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Email
rosag@msu.edu for more information.
The John M. Airy Beef Cattle Symposium 2003: Visions for Genetics and
Breeding May 15-17, 2003 near Des Moines, Iowa will be hosted by Iowa
State University. For more information contact James Reecy at
jreecy@iastate.edu.
NC1004 Annual Meeting will be held at the U.S. Meat Animal Research
Center in Clay Center, Nebraska on May 30-31, 2003. For details
contact Daniel Pomp at dpomp@unl.edu.
13th North American Colloquium on Animal Cytogenetics and Gene Mapping,
Louisville Zoo, Louisville, KY, July 13-17, 2003. For more information
please see http://www.uky.edu/Ag/VetScience/NACACGM/ or contact Teri
Lear at equigene@uky.edu.
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 more information.
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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Items for Pig Genome Update 61 can be sent to me by no later than June 15
please.
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: Deb Hamernik, CSREES and Caird Rexroad II, ARS
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