Fifth Scientific Meeting of the EADGENE Mastitis Working Group
23rd-24th March 2009, Toulouse, France

Monday, March 23rd

Mastitis in Cattle

• Pathogen-species influence quality and extent of cross talk between udder quarters - Liz Glass & Kirsty Jensen (RI, UK)
• Time course to activate immune defence in the udder /and or MEC - Juliane Günther (RIBFA, Germany)
• Hans-Martin Seyfert
• Modulation of gene expression in pbMEC by  supernatants of S. aureus and LPS respectively - Pascal Rainard (INRA, Tours)
• S. aureus regulated genes in macrophages of the cow - Guro Boman & Ingrid Olsaker (NVS, Oslo, Norway)
• Gene Map of Cattle Candidate Genes for Milk Traits - Peter Dovc (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Mastitis in Goat:

• Differentially expressed genes associated with Staphylococcus aureus mastitis in dairy goats: validation of the microarray data by real-time PCR - Castiglioni & Allesandra Stella (University of Milan, Italy &PTP)

Mastitis in Sheep:

• Transcriptomic profiling in neutrophils after challenge with S. epidermidis and S. aureus - Rachel Rupp, Gilles Foucras and Dominique Bergonier

Tuesday, March 24th

• An experimental mastitis model focusing on different compartments of the udder - Wolfram Petzl & Holm Zerbe, LMU Munich 
• Differentiation of milk cells - Daniel Mehne & Holm Zerbe
• Regulation of initial udder responses by milk T-cell subsets - Anja Sipka and Hans-Joachim Schuberth

Dissecting the Cellome in the udder:
Discussion about comparisons of  lists from genes regulated by
pathogens in the (i) udder, (ii) MEC (iii) in milk cells (iv) in macrophages. 

EADGENE Mastitis Satellite to the EADGENE days: Oct 15th
Who wants to talk?
Discussion about the possible outputs from the mastitis working group, mentioning the niches not having been addressed during this meeting (example: effect of virulence factors from S. aureus)

List of Participants:

Marie Helene Pinard van der Laan Sandrine Ayuso Thu Bizat Rachel Rupp Gilles Foucras Pascal Rainard Guro Boman, Ingrid Olsaker Peter Dovcz Bianca Castiglioni Allesandra Stellai Juliane Günther Hans-Martin Seyfert Wolfram Petzl Holm Zerbe Hans-Joachim Schuberth Daniel Mehne Anja Sipka Anna Düwel Esther Lichtenberg