NAGRP Aquaculture Genome Projects

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From: "John Liu" [liuzhan@auburn.edu]
To: "aquaculturegenomics" [aquaculturegenomics@acesag.auburn.edu]
Cc: "Grant Burgess" [Grant.Burgess@newcastle.ac.uk]
Subject: [aquaculturegenomics] Aquaculture genomics Newsletter 33
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2013 22:28:42 -0500

 PAG XXI (Plant and Animal Genome Conference) Update: The PAG XXI and
NRSP-8 Aquaculture Genome Workshop are around the corner. The PAG
meetings will be January 12-16, 2013, in San Diego. Speakers include Eric
Perakslis (US FDA), Michael Eisen (UC Berkeley), Daniel Chourrout (Sars
Centre, Norway), Greger Larson (Durham U.), Steve Jacobsen (UCLA), Goncalo
Abecasis (U. of Michigan), Michele Morgante (U. of Udine, Italy) and Gary
Muehlbauer (U. of Minnesota), see the program at http://www.intlpag.org.

 The Aquaculture Genome Workshop Update: The Aquaculture Genome Workshop 
will be a one and a half days long event starting Saturday January 12
and ending at 12:30 on Sunday January 13. We are looking forward to another
exciting and productive Aquaculture Workshop at PAG XXI in San Diego. This
year's Sat/Sun workshop will focus on gleaning high-quality expression and
genotypic data from the next-generation sequencing data deluge and how to
integrate that information into progress in the research and production
arenas. Our plenary speakers this year include: Patrick S. Schnable, Iowa
State University, W039 - NGS-Enabled Research Tools for Crops and
Livestock; Daniel F. Carlson, Recombinetics, Inc. W043 - TALEN-mediated
gene editing in terrestrial and aquatic species; Gary A. Rohrer, USDA-ARS,
W047 - Use of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) to Fine-Map
Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) in Swine; Curtis P. Van Tassell, USDA-ARS,
W055 - Ruminations On Lessons To Be Hatched From Genomics Research
In Cattle and Goats. In addition, we'll hear from Jeff Silverstein (USDA-ARS
Aquaculture National Program Leader) on cyber-infrastructure initiatives. 
We'll also hear from our 2013 travel award winners (below) and host a joint 
poster reception/social with Genome Canada (5:30 PM Saturday). All workshop 
details are available at (http://www.intlpag.org/). Additional questions 
about the workshop should be directed to this year's chair, Eric Peatman
(peatmer@auburn.edu). The Saturday¡¦s program can be found at
http://pag13.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=1E
and the Sunday¡¦s program can be found at
http://pag13.mapyourshow.com/5_0/sessions/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=11

 Congratulations to our 2013 NRSP-8 Aquaculture Genomics Travel Award
recipients: The following are to receive a NRSP-8 Aquaculture Genomics Travel
Award, and each travel award recipient will be presenting his/her research in 
the workshop sessions as well as during our poster reception.
 o Mackenzie Gavery (Uniiversity of Washington)
 o Luyang Sun (Auburn University)
 o Shikai Liu (Auburn University)
 o Song Lin (Simon Fraser University)
 o William D. Eisbrenner (Simon Fraser University)
 o Emily I. Palibroda (Simon Fraser University)
 o Alejandro P. Gutierrez (Simon Fraser University)
 o Jianbin Feng (Auburn University)
 o Jie Hu (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, West Vancouver Lab)
 o Garrett McKinney (Purdue University)

 NRSP-8 Project revision is nearly finished. A special thanks goes out to 
Tom Porter of the University of Maryland for his chairing this undertaking 
and a number of others including Milt Thomas, James Mickelson, Stephen White, 
Eric Peatman, Daniel Ciobanu, Cathy Ernst, Kristi Cammack, Jamie MacLeod, 
Moh Salem, Jerry Dodgson, Hans Cheng, James Reecy, Noelle Cockett, Ernie 
Bailey, Caird Rexroad, John Liu, Max Rothschild and Juan Medrano for their 
work on writing and revising the proposal.

 A position for a Ph.D. candidate/Postdoctoral fellow is available at the 
Institute of Animal Science, Agricultural Research Organization in Israel for 
integrative genomic analysis of the key genes and regulatory elements 
affecting early onset of sex determination in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis 
niloticus).  Knowledge in computational genomics is required. Please contact 
with CV.

Prof. Micha Ron
Animal Genetics
Institute of Animal Science
ARO, The Volcani Center, Israel
http://www.agri.gov.il/en/people/616.aspx
E mail: micha@agri.huji.ac.il
and
Prof. Gideon Hulata
Dept. of Poultry and Aquaculture
Institute of Animal Science
Agricultural Research Organization
The Volcani Center
PO Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Phone: +972-(0)3 9683020; cell +972 (0)50-6220058
Fax: +972-(0)3 9605667
E-mail: vlaqua@volcani.agri.gov.il
Webpage: http://www.agri.gov.il/en/people/628.aspx