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Poultry 2

Presentations and discussions on research to improve poultry using modern genetic and genomic methods. Organized by USDA Multistate Research Project NC1170, and NRSP-8 Poultry
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time: 8:00 AM-12:40 PM
Room: Sunset - Meeting House
Organizers:
Behnam Abasht and Huaijun Zhou
8:00 AM
W770
A Improved Chicken Genome Reference: Recovery of Missing Autosomes and Addition of a New W Chromosome
Wesley Warren, Washington University School of Medicine-McDonnell Genome Institute

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8:20 AM
W771
Genome Annotation of the New Chicken Assembly Gallus_Gallus-5.0
Thibaut Hourlier, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EBI

8:40 AM
W772
Beyond Annotation: Assigning Function to Chicken ncRNAs
Fiona McCarthy, University of Arizona; Amanda M. Cooksey, University of Arizona; Cathy R. Gresham, Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing & Biotechnology; Ken Pendarvis, University of Arizona; Shane Burgess, University of Arizona; Bindu Nanduri, Mississippi State University

9:00 AM
W773
Iso-Seq Sequencing and the Chicken Genome Annotation
Richard Kuo, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

9:20 AM
W774
RNA-Seq Analyses Reveals High Frequency of Allele Specific Expression and No Evidence of Genomic Imprinting in Specific Embryonic Tissues of Chicken
Behnam Abasht, University of Delaware; Zhu Zhuo, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware; Susan J. Lamont, Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science

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9:40 AM
W775
Identification of Deleterious Alleles in Poultry
Martijn F.L. Derks, Wageningen University; Mirte Bosse, Wageningen University; Hendrik-Jan Megens, Wageningen University; Dick de Ridder, Wageningen University; Marcel J.T. Reinders, Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Delft University of Technology; Christian Gross, Wageningen University; Martien A.M. Groenen, Wageningen University

10:00 AM
Break


10:30 AM
W776
EU-Project Horizon 2020: Innovative Management of Animal Genetic Resources (IMAGE) Specific for Chicken
Richard Crooijmans, Wageningen University

10:50 AM
W777
Disentangling Genetic Exchanges Between Gallus gallus and Gallus sonneratii in Order to Better Understand the Domestication of Chickens
Michèle Tixier-Boichard, GABI, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay

11:10 AM
NC1170 Business Meeting


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