Presentations 

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Tuesday 5th June 2007

Session 1: Genomics tools and technologies
Chair: Chris Warkup (SABRE Co-ordinator, Genesis Faraday, UK)

• Why a joint meeting?
  Marie-Hélène Pinard van der Laan (EADGENE Co-ordinator, INRA, France) and Chris Warkup (SABRE Co-ordinator, Genesis Faraday, UK)
• Survey of copy number variation in the human genome: implications for other mammals
  Keynote speaker: Richard Redon (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)
• The EADGENE microarray workshop
  Dirk-Jan de Koning (Roslin Institute, UK)
• An example for analysing microarray data
  Kim-Anh Lê Cao (INRA, France)
• Application of genomic selection for breeding schemes
  John Woolliams (Roslin Institute, UK)
• Bayesian multi-QTL/multi-marker models for finemapping and genomic selection
  Luc Janss (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
• EADGENE and SABRE funding for short-term visits by scientists
  Carol Didcock (Genesis Faraday, UK)
• Expression profiling of bovine macrophages exposed to a Staphylococcus aureus strain causing clinical mastitis  
  Guro Boman (Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Norway)
• Profiling gene expression of specific gut epithelial cells obtained by laser dissection
  Willem Swinkels (Wageningen University, NL)
• One short-term stay links two institutions and two poultry long term selection experiments
  Giulietta Minozzi (INRA, France)
• SABRE and EADGENE Gender Action Plans
  Simona Palermo (Parco Technologico Padano, Italy)   

Wednesday 6th June 2007

Session 2:  Udder health
Chair: Marie-Hélène Pinard-van der Laan (EADGENE Co-ordinator, INRA, France)

• Staphylococcus aureus: colonization, pathogenesis and immune evasion 
  Keynote speaker: Tim Foster (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Modulation of neutrophilic inflammation in the mammary gland
  Keynote speaker: Pascal Rainard (INRA, France)
• Innate responses to mastitis-causing pathogens: transcriptomic studies in vivo and in vitro
  Liz Glass (Roslin Institute, UK)
• Early host-pathogen interactions during mastitis in experimentally-infected sheep 
  Rachel Rupp (INRA, France)
• QTL mapping for mastitis susceptibility traits
  Mogens Sandø Lund (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
• Genetic factors influencing mastitis susceptibility
  Didier Boichard (INRA, France)

Session 3: Gut health
Chair: Mari Smits (SABRE-EADGENE Liaison, Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR, NL)

• Food-borne pathogens, functional genomics and farm animals
  Keynote speaker: Duncan Maskell (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Early responses in Salmonella infected poultry 
  Annemarie Rebel (Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR, NL)
• Early transcriptional response in the jejunum of pigs after challenge with enteric pathogens
  Marcel Hulst (Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR, NL)
• Variation in chicken (innate) immune genes
  Pete Kaiser (IAH, UK)