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Pig Genome Newsletter #074
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@animalgenome.org> *
* September 1, 2005 *
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1. Porcine genome grants await review
2. NRSP-8 Coordinators talk and plan for the future
3. PAG XIV & NRSP8/NC1004 Meeting will be held January 14-18, 2006
4. Neal A. Jorgensen Genome Travel Awards for students
5. AFFY Pig chips available for limited experimentation
6. New Swine Oligo Arrays nearing reality
7. New computer tool available for use
8. Enjoy summer, support the industry and barbecue pork
9. Upcoming meetings (6 items)
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Porcine genome grants await review. The deadline for the USDA National
Research Initiative Porcine Genome Sequencing grant program was August 18.
The $10 million included in the CSREES RFA is not necessarily the bottom
line of the USDA's commitment. The Agricultural Research Service of the
USDA has indicated that they would consider providing an additional $1-2
million for the project. More to follow as funding details become
available.
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NRSP-8 Coordinators talk and plan for the future. As part of efforts to be
more proactive, Dr. Muquarrab A. Qureshi, National Program Leader for
Animal Genetics in USDA-CSREES, is organizing phone conferences between
the coordinators. The purpose of these quarterly discussions will be to
help plan for the future of animal genomics. Issues to be covered include
thoughts on FY 2006 and future NRI RFA, evolving NRSP-8 needs (i.e.,
resources, funding, etc.), coordinator issues and updates, DC updates, PAG
meeting/Business meeting, annual reports and other items. Dr. Qureshi's
leadership is appreciated and if you have ideas you feel that need to be
discussed please contact your species coordinator or Dr. Qureshi to relay
those discussion points.
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PAG XIV & NRSP8/NC1004 Meeting will be held January 14-18, 2006 at the
Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA. A draft program is already
available at www.intl-pag.org/ and looks to be another good year.
Abstracts are due October 7, 2005. The NRSP8 swine committee meets jointly
with NC1004 and will be jointly chaired by Joe Cassidy and Zhihua Jiang.
It will be held on Saturday January 14, 2006 beginning at 8:00 am in Royal
Palm Salon 1 & 2. General information regarding PAG may be found at
http://www.intl-pag.org/. For those wishing to attend the weekend session
only, you may sign-up for the $250 advance registration, postmarked or
submitted by November 1, 2005. Full registration is $475 submitted via the
Scherago International secure web site postmarked or submitted before that
date. Some limited travel support may be available for NRSP-8 members. If
interested please contact Max Rothschild at mfrothsc@iastate.edu.
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Neal A. Jorgensen Genome Travel Awards for students. Partial funding ($525
travel award and complimentary registration from Scherago International)
for US based graduate student (not postdoc) travel to the PAG meeting is
available. Interested graduate students who have questions may contact the
Pig Genome Coordinator (mfrothsc@iastate.edu). The application should
consist of a letter requesting why the award is being sought and a printed
copy of the students' abstract. To apply, please fill out the application
at http://www.intl-pag.org/14/forms/NAJtravel.html. Notification will be
approximately November 1, 2005.
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AFFY Pig chips available for limited experimentation. In a continuing
effort to help researchers try new platforms and ideas the Pig Genome
Coordinator will make available 6 chips to qualified requests. To qualify
you must be a pig NRSP-8 group and have never used this technology. You
must also acknowledge the receipt of these from the Pig Genome
Coordination program in all publications. To request a set of 6 chips
please contact Max Rothschild at mfrothsc@iastate.edu.
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New Swine Oligo Arrays nearing reality. Work continues to get the
production of the array materials ready. These should be available this
Fall. Only some existing arrays still remain. They can be requested by
emailing Archana Deshpande at the University of Minnesota at
deshp008@umn.edu to arrange the printing. A total of no more 30 that can
now be requested and costs are $20/slide and shipping. Please contact the
Coordinator at the same time to confirm the request.
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New computer tool available for use. In the July 22nd issue of Science
the research group of Harris Lewin, University of Illinois, published a
multispecies analysis (human, mouse, rat, dog, cat, pig, cattle & horse)
and as part of this project developed (in collaboration with NCSA) a tool
called "Evolution Highway". The tool can be found at:
http://evolutionhighway.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ . This tool allows for comparing
different species genomes/chromosomes with one another and also overlaying
specific regions of interest onto the comparative maps by using the custom
track option. It is expected that a downloadable version ready use will be
available in the future.
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Enjoy summer, support the industry and barbecue pork. Go out and barbecue
some pork for the holidays and the summer. See the recipes provided by the
National Pork Board:
http://www.otherwhitemeat.com/aspx/recipes/Recipe_Details.aspx?rid=363&cid=12
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.animalgenome.org/community/meetings.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
10th QTL-MAS workshop, Agrarian Impulse Center Heffterhof, Salzburg,
Austria September 16- 17, 2005, To register contact heffterhof@lk-salzburg.at
The 16th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal
Breeding and Genetics, September 25-28, 2005, Noosa, Queensland,
Australia. See www.aaabg.org.
Plant and Animal Genome XIV, joint with the NAGRP annual meetings, Jan.
14-18, 2006, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA. See
www.intl-pag.org/.
First European Conference on Pig GenomicsLodi, Italy, February 20- 21,
2006. For information please contact pignet2006@toulouse.inra.fr
The 8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock ProductionBelo
Horizonte, MG, Brazil, August 13- 18, 2006 for information please contact
Fernando E. Madalena at iprociencia@terra.com.br
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Items for Pig Genome Update 75 can be sent to me by no later than October 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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