5th SABRE Conference/ISAG 2010
Edinburgh, 26 – 30th July 2010

The SABRE Project has held four Conferences to date. The 4th SABRE Conference was very successfully integrated with the 60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) in Barcelona from 24-27th August 2009, guaranteeing a wider dissemination of SABRE results than we could normally reach. 

In a continuation of this strategy, the 5th SABRE Conference was integrated with the 32nd Conference of the International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG 2010), which took place in Edinburgh (UK) from 26 -30th July 2010. Please see the ISAG conference website at http://www.isag2010.org.

ISAG / 5th SABRE Conference Programme

• SABRE – 4 ½ years and 200 scientists (Chris Warkup, UK)
• Better breeding – can we paint animal genomics on a wider (ethical) canvas? (Ann Bruce, UK)
• Molecular Genetics of Cortisol Secretion in Pigs (Pierre Mormede, France)
• Transcriptional profiling of the adrenal gland for the identification of genes and pathways associated with stress response and aggressive behaviour (Klaus Wimmers, Germany)
• Association between Copy Number Variation and QTL for fertility on BTA7 in Israeli Holstein dairy cattle (Micha Ron, Israel)
• Identification of Protein Complexes Implicated In Bovine Mastitis (Peter Sørensen, Denmark)
• Calcium Carbonate crystal size is highly heritable and positively correlated with egg shell quality in laying hens (Ian Dunn, UK)
• The deposition of cuticle on the eggshell of laying hens is a moderately heritable trait which directly influences microbiological egg safety (Maureen Bain, UK)

SABRE Consortium Meeting

A SABRE Consortium meeting was held from 17:30 on Wednesday 28^th July 2010, following on from the SABRE scientific session.

Costs

As the Conference was a SABRE activity, your organisation may charge the costs (travel, subsistence, registration fee) of SABRE scientists attending the Conference against your organisation’s SABRE budget. Please discuss with your supervisor or SABRE’s coordinator within your organisation to verify that sufficient funds are available within your organisation’s SABRE budget and that you can use them for this purpose (see http://www.sabre-eu.eu/Partners/tabid/177/Default.aspx  for details of SABRE Coordinators within each organisation).

As SABRE normally does not charge registration fees for attendance at SABRE Conferences, the Biosciences KTN (formerly Genesis Faraday) has created a central budget from which a limited number of presenting SABRE scientists will be awarded funds to cover the additional costs of attending the Conference.

• Additional costs are: early registration fee before 28th February 2010 (ISAG Member £435, Non ISAG Member £490, ISAG Student £290), or before 30th June 2010 (ISAG Member £470, Non ISAG Member £540, ISAG Student £325)
• As we do not know how many SABRE abstracts will be submitted, we cannot guarantee that all scientists submitting SABRE abstracts will be awarded funding from the central budget
• Awards are available for both oral and poster presentations
• Preference of funding awards will be given to oral presentations and (any) presentations by
  • PhD Students
  • Researchers in their first 4 years of their career
  • Researchers under the age of 30
• It is at the SABRE Board’s discretion to allocate funding
• In accordance with EC guidelines, awards will be transferred to your organisation’s SABRE budget. Please inform us if an exception to this rule should be applied