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Pig Genome Newsletter #069
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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* <angenmap@db.genome.iastate.edu> *
* November 1, 2004 *
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1. The 2004 ISAG meeting held in Tokyo, Japan on September 10-16
2. USDA "Genomics for the Next 25 Years" workshop held September 22-23
3. Plant and Animal Genome XIII will be January 15-19, 2005 in San Diego
4. Pig oligo arrays still remain to be printed and released
5. Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health will be on July 13-15, 2005
6. Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium continues to try to reach its goal
7. Your input can help save USDA Animal Genome Reagent & Tool program
8. Upcoming meetings ( 6 items )
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The 2004 ISAG meeting held in Tokyo, Japan on September 10-16 was a great
success. Approximately 700 people attended and the hosts provided an
outstanding mix of science and good hospitality. Plenary sessions
featured a number of speakers on genome sequencing, gene identification,
functional genomics and a look into the future of our field. Items of
interest to pig genomics research included the Pig Gene Mapping Workshop
which was organized by Gary Rohrer (USDA). The workshop was devoted
primarily to comparative mapping, SNP mapping and new tools. Speakers
were Sean Humphray (BAC mapping tools), Hiroshi Yasue (comparative maps),
Jon Beever (comparative maps), Gary Rohrer (SNP parentage testing), Frank
Panits, Denmark (initial SNP scan in Denmark) and Karl Schellander (QTL
scans from Germany.). Sean presented a great tool to use in silico to
find your pig genome region of interest and get sequence from the BAC
ends. It can be found at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/projects/S_scrofa/ and
then go to FPC released. The workshop committee was reelected to serve
another 2 years. Another session was the Swine Sequencing Workshop, which
covered talks by Larry Schook, Jon Beever, Jane Rogers and others. Kelly
Eversole presented the likely situation for where we stand with money for
a 3X BAC skim and 3 X shotgun coverage. Other workshops with interesting
information included the Immune Response Workshop, the Marker Assisted
Selection Workshop and the Comparative Mapping Workshop. Finally there
was an excellent set of posters, many of which dealt with QTL, gene
identification and array analysis.
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The Genomics Needs for the Next 25 Years Workshop was held September 22-23
in Washington, D.C. An interesting and extremely important strategic
planning workshop for agricultural animal genomics was conducted by USDA
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Nearly 40 scientists and administrators representing both ARS and CSREES
and a number of other agencies participated. The objective of this
meeting was "To identify critical infrastructure needs in the post-genome
sequencing era of domestic animal genomics, specifically for research
communities working with cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry."
Operationally the meeting was organized by Dr. Ronnie Green, ARS and Dr.
Muquarrab A. Qureshi, CSREE and Dr. Joseph Jen, USDA Undersecretary for
Research, Education and Extension, attended and was the official host. A
number of members of the National Science and Technology Council
Interagency Working Group on Domestic Animal Genomics (chaired by Dr. Jen)
and representatives from NIH, NSF, DOE and other Federal agencies with
genomics interests also attended. Immediately following the Workshop, a
small group of participants (representing various species) met with the
Interagency Working Group to summarize conclusions from the Workshop and
respond to questions raised at the meeting. Considerable sequencing is
still in progress and there is more to do. Strong support was expressed
for swine genome sequencing and targeted sequencing and/or finishing of
other genomes. It was again emphasized that tools and reagents are more
important now than ever, including access to high throughput technology
and instrumentation and continued non-hypothesis-driven research. A clear
consensus was that there was considerable disappointment in cancellation
of the USDA Tools and Reagents program. Animal genomics is crucial to all
aspects of animal science and animal biology and should be considered a
crucial part of this research. Domestic animal genomics research is
potentially of great value to the missions of other agencies including NIH
and NSF because through comparative genomics they can contribute to the
basic understanding of other disciplines. Finally, it is critical that
animal resources in terms of populations, lines, germplasm, and tissues be
preserved and expanded via appropriate support mechanisms. It is hoped
that USDA will begin to address some of these issues in the near future.
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PAG-XIII will be January 15-19, 2005 in warm, beautiful San Diego at the
Town and Country Hotel. See http://www.intl-pag.org/ for a schedule and
registration information. Registration is $475 before Nov. 1 for those
from non-profit organizations and $650 for industry participants, with
fees going up by $100 after Nov. 1 and another $100 on-site. Student
registration is $275/$325/$375, respectively. A weekend rate (Fri.-Sun.
only) is available at $250/$300/$350. Among others, Nobel Laureate Rich
Roberts from New England Biolabs and Bill Haseltine from Human Genome
Sciences are scheduled to give plenary lectures. The NRSP8 Swine genome
committee will meet. Joan Lunney is chairing the meeting and plans for an
excellent program are underway. The meeting is scheduled to start at 8 am
on Saturday, January 15. In addition, the Swine Genome Sequencing
Committee will meet on Sunday from 12 noon - 2 pm. Both meetings are open
to all interested participants. Limited partial travel assistance will be
available for NRSP-8 swine committee members or members of their labs.
Please contact the Coordinator, Max Rothschild, as soon as possible if
interested.
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A total of 200 pig oligo arrays still remain to be printed and released.
Despite a number of previous requests additional materials still exist to
print additional arrays. Previous individuals who have ordered arrays can
again order up to 30 arrays and new orders from non-NRSP8 labs and foreign
labs will now be accepted until the materials run out. Cost is $20/slide
plus shipping. Slide orders will be on a first come first serve basis.
If you are interested, please immediately contact Max Rothschild at
mfrothsc@iastate.edu.
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The 3rd International Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health (formerly,
Candidate Genes for Animal Health) will convene on July 13-15, 2005, in
Ames, Iowa, USA. The meeting will feature several invited speakers,
contributed presentations and poster sessions and should be an exciting
continuation of past meetings. Support for the meeting will be provided
by a number of industry groups and the USDA-CSREES genome coordinators.
Please note the dates on your calendar, and bookmark the GAH2005 web home
page: http://www.ans.iastate.edu/GAH2005.html. More information will be
available at this site soon!
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Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium continues to try to reach its goal.
Efforts are progressing to advance the sequencing of the pig genome. The
ISAG meeting in Tokyo, Japan in September was successful and additional
meetings are planned including one at PAG.. Interested parties are
encouraged to participate in the future. If you can help in raising these
funds please contact Larry Schook at UIUC or Max Rothschild, at ISU.
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Your input can help save this program. It came as a shock but it appears
the Animal Genome Reagent & Tool Development program that has been very
successful to date is now scheduled to end after the 2005 year. Now is
the time for scientists that are concerned about this decision to make
their voices known. Please consider contacting Dr. Anna Palmisano, Deputy
CSREES Administrator for Competitive Programs (apalmisano@csrees.usda.gov)
and/or Dr. Brad Fenwick, Chief Science Advisor, CSREES-NRI
(bfenwick@csrees.usda.gov) and let them know how valuable this program is
to our research.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/community/meetings.html)
Ninth DISCOVER Conference on Food Animal Agriculture. "Protecting
and Managing Animal Genetic Resources for Future Generations: The
Next Steps", Nov. 2-5, 2004, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Please see
http://www.adsa.org/discover/ for further information.
Bioinformatics and its Applications in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on
December 16-19, 2004. For details please contact hem@nsu.nova.edu
Plant, Animal and Microbial Genome XIII, joint with the NAGRP annual
meetings, Jan. 15-19, 2005, Town & Country Convention Center, San
Diego, CA. Please see www.intl-pag.org/ for information.
Swine in Biomedical Research Conference, January 27-29, 2005,
Chicago Illinois, Please see
http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/conferences/conference.asp?id=333
or contact Larry Schook for details.
3rd International Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health, July 13-15,
2005, in Ames, Iowa, USA, Please see:
http://www.ans.iastate.edu/GAH2005.html
Symposium on Integration of Structural and Functional Genomics (14th
Annual Growth Factor and Signal Transduction Conference), September
22-25, 2005, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. See
http://www.bb.iastate.edu/~gfst/homepg.html
Additional items can be found at:
http://www.agbiotechnet.com/calendar/index.asp.
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Items for Pig Genome Update 70 can be sent to me by no later than
December 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: Muquarrab Qureshi, CSREES and Caird Rexroad II, ARS
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