June 17th
9:00 Registration
9:25 Mike Bruford – Introduction [Mike’s Introduction]
Symposium on Horizon Scanning important questions and challenges for livestock genomics resources for the next decade.
9:30 Hendrick-Jan Megens – Pig variomics: understanding the when, where, and why of variation in the genome of Sus scrofa
10:00 Paolo Ajmone-Marsan – The coalition between Italian goats and Italian researchers: the Italian goat Consortium [Paolo’s talk]
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Stephane Joost – Biogeoinformatics of livestock genomic resources [Stephane’s talk]
11:30 Jutta Roosen – Local breeds in global markets – exploiting consumer preferences for local and regional specialties [Jutta’s talk]
Free session (4 x 15 minute talks)
12:00 Maja Ferenčaković – Modelling genome wise dissection of inbreeding depression for bull fertility traits
12:15 Natalia Sevane – Genomic tools for detecting individuals with greater ability to face pathogens and other external aggressions [Natalia’s talk]
12:30 Solange Duruz – Data integration, GIS and multi-criteria decision making for the monitoring of livestock genomic resources
12:45 Philippe Helsen – From livestock to conservation breeding and back again
13:00 Lunch
Symposium on “Beyond Weitzmann: prioritizing genomic resources using genomic data
14:00 Irene Hoffmann – A global view of prioritising genomic resources [Irene’s talk]
14:30 Stephen Hall – Prioritisation of livestock genetic resources in relation to neutral and selected genetic variation [Stephen’s talk]
15:00 Catarina Ginja – The challenge of defining conservation priorities for livestock breeds: the example of cattle [Catarina’s talk]
15:00 Tea
Free session (6 x 15 minute talks)
16:00 Anamarija Smetko – Trypanosomosis: Conservation of tolerance in African cattle
16:15 Ellison Musimuko – Unveiling hidden treasures in Zambian indigenous cattle (Bos indicus) using 32 microsatellite markers
16:30 Markus Neuditschko – PCA-Informative individuals for Structure Identification within Populations [Markus’ talk]
16:45 Hilal Btissam – Genetic characterization of “Beni Arouss” goat in Morocco using microsatellite markers
17:00 Daniel Fischer – Identification of Signatures of Selection in Dairy Cattle from Next-Generation Sequencing Data [Daniel F talk]
17:15 Xiangjiang Zhan – Reconstruction of a continuous demographic history of giant pandas based on genome data
17:30 – 19:30 Poster Session and integrative activity
19:30 Dinner – Aberdare Hall
June 18th
Symposium on genomic resources in minority livestock species.
9:00 Olivier Hanotte – Genome diversity of livestock: What does it mean for African cattle?
9:30 Hans Lenstra – Cattle: more than taurine and zebu [Hans’ talk]
10:00 Mike Bruford – Genomic Resources in South American Camelids: Opportunities and Challenges [Mike’s talk]
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Francois Pompanon – Estimating the potential of wild relatives and indigenous breeds to act as genomic resources: the case of sheep and goats [Francois’ talk]
11:30 Mara Miele – Slow Food presidia on rare /typical breeds in Italy: valuing or constructing the unique? [Mara’s talk]
Free session (4 x 15 minute talks)
12:00 Anamaria Štambuk – Next-generation population genomics of native and aquacultured Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis [Annamaria’s talk]
12:15 Charles Masembe – A landscape genomics approach towards improving production and conservation of the Ugandan domestic goat (GOATGEN) [Charles’ talk]
12:30 Laura Iacolina – Effects of isolation and human-mediated introgression in shaping the genomic distinctiveness of an insular large mammal
12:45 Robert Fitak – Complete genome re-sequencing reveals patterns of domestication in Old World camelids [Bob’s talk]
13:00 Lunch
Symposium on The data tsunami – how to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater!
14:00 Daniel Wegmann – Inferring Evolutionary Histories from Genetic Data [Daniel W talk]
14:30 Ezequiel Nicolazzi – Development of Approaches to Compare and Integrate Technologies [Ezequiel’s talk]
15:00 Pablo Orozco-terWengel – Signatures of Selection in Large Datasets [Pablo’s talk]
15:30 Tea
Free session (6 x 15 minute talks)
16:00 Filippo Biscarini – Can runs of homozygosity be used as an alternative or a complement to GWAS? [Filippo’s talk]
16:15 Kevin Leempoel – Subsampling as an economic consequence of using whole genome sequence data in landscape genomics: how to maximize environmental information from a reduced number of locations? [Kevin’s talk]
16:30 Saif-Allah Agha – Landscape genomics and Fst approaches to reveal SNPs under selection in Sheep
16:45 Sylvie Stucki – Riding the whole-genome data tsunami: a landscape genomic study of local adaptation in Moroccan sheep and goats [Sylvie’s talk]
17:00 Ian Streeter – A high quality resequencing analysis pipeline for the NextGen project livestock data [Ian’s talk]
17:15 Linn Fenna Groeneveld – Conservation of the Nordic Brown Bee [Linn’s talk]
17:30 – 19:30 Poster Session and integration activity
19:30 Dinner – Aberdare Hall
June 19th
9:00 Working Groups defined by integration activity (5 key questions per group)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 Plenary Session and discussion on horizon scanning results. Publication tasks.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
For the conference proceedings please download the document in the link below:
ESF Livestock Genomic Resources in a Changing World Conference – Abstract Book
Livestock Genomic Resources in a Changing World 