EADGENE Days 2009: Genomics for Animal Health: Outlook for the Future
13-14 October 2009, Paris, France
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EADGENE Days 2008
9-12th June 2008, Edinburgh, UK. For more information please click here.
EADGENE-SABRE Days 2007 “Genomics for Animal Health”4-8 June 2007, Utrecht, NL
The EU-funded projects SABRE (Cutting Edge Genomics for Sustainable Animal Breeding) and EADGENE (European Animal Disease Genomics Network of Excellence) held their joint meeting on “Genomics for Animal Health” from 4th - 8th June 2007 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This 5-day event focussed on the latest genetics and genomics research in the field of farm animal health, through a joint 2-day conference which was preceeded and followed by a series of satellite workshops and meetings.
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EADGENE Days 2006
29th - 30th June 2006, Oslo, Norway
The EADGENE Days 2006 meeting highlighted the achievements of the first 18 months of the EADGENE Network of Excellence through a programme of presentations, short talks, discussions and poster sessions. The meeting focussed on the integrating activities within the Network and included sessions on: bioinformatics facilities within EADGENE; the outcomes of EADGENE funded short-term stays at partner institutes; and EADGENE’s resources and research. For further information and to view presentations from this conference please click here
EADGENE Days 2005
18th -19th May 2005, Brussels, Belgium
The EADGENE Days 2005 was the first major event organised by the EADGENE Network, aimed at introducing Network Partners to one another, informing them about the EADGENE Network and inviting them to participate in future research.
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EADGENE Kick-off Meeting
5th October 2004, Jouy-en-Josas, France
The EADGENE Kick-off meeting was held at INRA's site at Jouy-en-Josas on 5th October 2004. The meeting was attended by Mr F. d'Aubert (French Minister for Research), Mr A. Mitsos (Director-General of the Research DG European Commission), Mrs M. Guillou (INRA's President) and the scientific partners of EADGENE.
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Industry Conferences and Workshops
EADGENE Animal Health Data Comparison Workshop 2
15 October 2009, Paris, France
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EADGENE Industry Days 2009
3-4 June 2009, Rome, Italy.
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Animal Trait Ontology Workshop
12 June 2008, Edinburgh UK
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EADGENE Industry-Academia Days 2005
19th -21st October 2005, Hinxton, UK
The EADGENE Industry-Academia Days 2005 was held on the theme of "Genetics and Genomics for Animal Health" at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton (UK). The conference provided representatives of animal breeding and animal health industries with an opportunity to learn about the EADGENE project, and included joint industry-academia talks, funding presentations, a discussion about the future of animal breeding, a poster gallery, and a funding market. For further information and to view presentations from this conference please click here.
Analytical Tools Workshops
Genetic Interpretation of Field Disease Data
1-2 February 2010, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK
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Bioinformatics and Data Handling for Next Generation Sequencing
12th October 2009, Paris, France
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EADGENE and SABRE Post-analyses Workshop
12-14 Nov 2008, Lelystad, The Netherlands. For more information please click here.
From Infection to Inference Workshop
4-5 June 2007, Utrecht, NL
This workshop was held satellite to the “Genomics for Animal Health” conference. This Workshop aimed to facilitate the dialogue between disease experts and specialists in data analysis in order to learn each others’ terminology, and to identify common ground, as well as caveats. This workshop focussed on three contrasting disease categories: mastitis, gut health (e.g. E. coli or salmonella infections) and nematodes. For further information please click here.
Data Analysis Workshop
1-3 November 2006 in Tune, Denmark
This workshop focused on the analysis of microarray data. For further information please click here.
Disease Workshops
EADGENE Mastitis Workshop 2009: Biology and Meta-analysis
15 October 2009, Paris, France
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Mastitis Working Group workshops
The EADGENE Mastitis Working Group has been highlighted by reviewers as an example of NoE performance. At each meeting the latest data is presented. For further information please click on each meeting below:
EADGENE Workshop followed by miRNAs in Health & Disease 2
3-4th March 2008, Liège University, Belgium
This EADGENE sponsored workshop was divided into 2 sessions. A morning session to introduce miRNAs in general with 3 different courses: miRNA biology (Bryan Cullen from Duke University) ; wet-lab methods for the detection of miRNA and the analysis of their mode of action (Zissimos Mourelatos from the University of Pennsylvania); bioinformatic analysis of miRNAs and their targets (speaker to be determined). An afternoon session was dedicated to oral presentations about miRNAs in livestock research. For further information please click here.
E. coli and Salmonella Workshop
7 June 2007, Utrecht, NL
The topics of this workshop were enterohaemorrhagic strains of Escherichia coli (EHEC) and Salmonella enterica, which are animal and human pathogens with zoonotic potential. The title of the workshop was: “Postgenomics in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica”, in other words: “how does the acquired knowledge on the genomics of bacterial pathogens help us in the understanding of the development, of the treatment and of the prevention of the diseases?”
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Annotation Workshops
Bovine Annotation Jamboree
Hinxton, 23-25 May 2007
With the advent of the new genome assembly for cow, annotation of this sequence is the next step in making it useful for researchers in industry and academia. It is well known that lack of annotation is a major limiting factor in interpretation of microarray and other experiments. At present, input from biological experts is needed to manually check the automated annotation of this genome. A jamboree was organised in Hinxton (UK) to bring experts together and guide them through the annotation process of their genes of interest. On the first day, we explained how the software works, and the other two days we focussed on performing the actual annotation and checks.
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EAAP Workshops
EADGENE & SABRE session at EAAP 2009
27 Aug 2008, Barcelona, Spain
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EADGENE & SABRE workshop at EAAP 2008
23 Aug 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Ethical Workshops
Ethical Stakeholder Workshop
14 Jan 2009, Roslin, Edinburgh, UK.
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EADGENE Ethical Matrix Workshops
Various venues and dates
These one-day workshops explored ethical issues raised by the interplay of animal genomics, animal disease and food safety. For further information please click here.