DAY 2, Monday, October 27, 2008
Continental Breakfast Provided
Session 1: Model Systems
Dr. Janan Eppig, Director, Mouse Informatics Laboratory
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine
"Representing Complexity Traits, Phenotypes, Diseases, and Ontologies in MGI"
Dr. Elaine Ostrander
Head, Comparative Genetics Section
Chief, Cancer Genetics Branch
National Institutes of Health
"Genetics and the Shape of Dogs"
Professor Martien Groenen
Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
Wageningen University
"TBA"
DISCUSSION
Lunch Provided
Session 2: 'Omic Technologies and Resources
Dr. Michael Sussman
Director, Biotechnology Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
"Democratization of Genomic Profiling Tools"
Dr. Ming Che (Jay) Wu
Taiwan Center for Germplasm Conservation
"Cryobanking and Bioutilization of Animal Genetic Resources"
Professor Juan Loor
Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois
"Mining Gene Networks in Peripartum Dairy Cattle to Define Metabolic Genotype-Phenotype Relationships"
Dr. James Reecy
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
"Integrated Tools for Mining Genomic Data"
