Poultry 2

Date: Sunday, January 13, 2013
Time: 8:00 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Sunset
Organizers:
Douglas D. Rhoads and Carl J. Schmidt
8:00 AM
The Avian Vasotocin 4 Receptor: its Role in Stress and Homology to the Mammalian Vasopressin 1a Receptor
Wayne Kuenzel, University of Arkansas; Alexander Jurkevich, University of Missouri-Columbia; Rajamani Selvam, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Seong W. Kang, University of Arkansas

8:20 AM
Use Of a Capture Platform For Target Enrichment and Massively Parallel Sequencing To Assess Variation In The Turkey MHC
Kent M. Reed, University of Minnesota; Robert E. Settlage, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

8:40 AM
Identification Of Direct Gene Targets That The MDV Oncoprotein Meq Regulates Via ChIP and Expression Analyses
Hans H. Cheng, USDA ARS Avian Disease & Oncology Laboratory; Suga Subramaniam, Michigan State University; Likit Preeyanon, Michigan State University; C. Titus Brown, Michigan State University

9:40 AM
Host Genetics and Vaccine Efficacy: Global Gene Expression Differentiation Induced By Vaccine and MDV In MD Resistant and Susceptible Chickens Based On Next-Gen RNA-Seq Reads
Huanmin Zhang, USDA ARS Avian Disease & Oncology Laboratory; Shuang Chang, Michigan State Univeristy; Qingmei Xie, South China Agricultural University; Jiuzhou Song, University of Maryland; Cathy Ernst, Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University

10:00 AM
AM Break Sunday
Douglas D. Rhoads, University of Arkansas

10:40 AM
Mapping Ascites QTLs In Broilers
Douglas D. Rhoads, University of Arkansas; Sriram Krishnamoorthy, University of Arkansas; Adnan Al-Rubaye, University of Arkansas/Fayetteville; Shatovisha Dey, University of Arkansas; Khaloud Al-Zahrani, University of Arkansas; Gisela F Erf, University of Arkansas; Robert F Wideman, University of Arkansas; Nicholas B Anthony, University of Arkansas

11:20 AM
Closing Remarks
Douglas D. Rhoads, University of Arkansas

11:30 AM
NC1170 Business Meeting
Douglas D. Rhoads, University of Arkansas

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