5th SABRE Conference/ISAG 2010
Edinburgh, 26 – 30th July 2010
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, guaranteeing a wider dissemination of SABRE results than we could normally reach. Please see the ISAG conference website at http://www.isag2010.org.
ISAG / 5th SABRE Conference Programme
There was a dedicated SABRE session on the afternoon of Wednesday 28th July 2010. SABRE scientists were invited to submit abstracts for this session, and any other relevant sessions.
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SABRE – 4 ½ years and 200 scientists (Chris Warkup, UK)
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Better breeding – can we paint animal genomics on a wider (ethical) canvas? (Ann Bruce, UK)
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Molecular Genetics of Cortisol Secretion in Pigs (Pierre Mormede, France)
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Transcriptional profiling of the adrenal gland for the identification of genes and pathways associated with stress response and aggressive behaviour (Klaus Wimmers, Germany)
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Association between Copy Number Variation and QTL for fertility on BTA7 in Israeli Holstein dairy cattle (Micha Ron, Israel)
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Identification of Protein Complexes Implicated In Bovine Mastitis (Peter Sørensen, Denmark)
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Calcium Carbonate crystal size is highly heritable and positively correlated with egg shell quality in laying hens (Ian Dunn, UK)
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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 28th July 2010, following on from the SABRE scientific session.