“Genomics of Disease”
October 2-4, 2006
University of Missouri - Columbia
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Program Schedule
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| Monday October 02, 2006 |
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| AM |
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| 7:30 | Registration Opens |
| 7:30 | Bus departs Stoney Creek Inn for Life Sciences Center |
| 8:15 | Opening Comments |
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Chairperson: Jerry Taylor — taylorjerr@missouri.edu
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| 8:30 | “Genetic mapping of complex traits using features of population structure” Elaine Ostrander, National Human Genome Research Institute |
| 9:00 | “Associating genomic variation of diverse rice varieties to understand disease resistance” Jan Leach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins |
| 9:30 | Discussion |
| 10:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
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Chairperson: Sherry Garcia — flint-garcias@missouri.edu
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| 10:30 | “Genomics of the rice defense signaling pathway” Pamela Ronald, University of California-Davis |
| 11:00 | “Genetic interactions that mediate autoimmune disease” Edward Wakeland, Center for Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
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| 12:00 | LUNCH – on your own |
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Chairperson: Henry Nguyen — nguyenhenry@missouri.edu
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| 1:30 | “Extracting meaning from high-dimensional ‘omics data” John Quackenbush, Harvard Medical School |
| 2:00 | “Unraveling the genetic mysteries of the cat: New discoveries in feline inherited diseases and traits” Leslie Lyons, University of California-Davis |
| 2:30 | Discussion |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
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Chairperson: Eric Antoniou — antonioue@missouri.edu
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| 3:30 | “Variation in chicken gene structure and expression associated with food-safety pathogen resistance” Susan Lamont, Iowa State University |
| 4:00 | “Functional genomics and bioinformatics of the soybean-phytophthora interaction” Brett Tyler, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute |
| 4:30 | Discussion DINNER – on your own |
| Tuesday October 03, 2006 | |
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Chairperson: Karen Cone — conek@missouri.edu
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| 8:30 | “The genetics governing merle coat patterning in the domestic dog and association of merle with auditory and ophthalmologic abnormalities” Keith Murphy, Texas A&M University |
| 9:00 | “Signaling networks in plant defense” Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory |
| 9:30 | Discussion |
| 10:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
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Chairperson: Mike McMullen — mcmullen@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
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| 10:30 | “AKT1 haplotypes control bone and muscle volumes, fasting serum glucose, and risk for metabolic syndrome” Eric Hoffman, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC |
| 11:00 | “Ovine disease resistance-integrating comparative and functional genomics approaches in a genome information-poor species” Herman Raadsma, University of Sydney |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
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| 12:00 | LUNCH – on your own |
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Chairperson: Jan Miernyk — miernykj@missouri.edu
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| 1:30 | “Finding the Achilles heel in virus replication and strategies that can limit disease in transgenic crops” Roger Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
| 2:00 | “Integrating genomics to understand the Marek’s disease virus-chicken host-pathogen interaction” Hans Cheng, USDA-ARS |
| 2:30 | Discussion |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
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Chairperson: Walter Gassmann — gassmannw@missouri.edu
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| 3:30 | “Combining Genomic Tools to Dissect Multifactorial Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa” Daniel Grenfell-Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 4:00 | “Genetic dissection of the interaction between the plant pathogen Xanthomonas and its host plants” Ulla Bonas, Institute of Genetics, Germany |
| 4:30 | Discussion |
| 6:30 | Bus departs Stoney Creek Inn for banquet at the Student Memorial Union |
| Wednesday October 04, 2006 | |
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Chairperson: Mel Oliver — olivermj@missouri.edu
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| 8:30 | “Landscape of comparative genomics in mammals” Steve O’Brien, National Cancer Institute |
| 9:00 | “Reprogramming the host: The effector secretome of Phytophthora” Sophien Kamoun, Ohio State University |
| 9:30 | Discussion |
| 10:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
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Chairperson: Jerry Taylor — taylorjerr@missouri.edu
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| 10:30 | “New insights into biotrophic development of Ustilago maydis” Regine Kahmann, MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie |
| 11:00 | “Evolution of virulence in malaria” Margaret Mackinnon, Department of Pathology, Cambridge University |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
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| 12:00 | LUNCH – on your own |
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Chairperson: Jim Schoelz — schoelzj@missouri.edu
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| 1:30 | “The ins and outs of host recognition of Magnaporthe grisea” Sally Leong, University of Wisconsin |
| 2:00 | “Epidermal growth factor receptor: pleiotropic effects associated with extensive genetic heterogeneity” David Threadgill, University of North Carolina |
| 2:30 | Discussion |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
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Chairperson: Gary Stacey — staceyg@missouri.edu
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| 3:30 | “A high-performance custom microarray for phenotypic analysis of plant defense signaling mutants” Jane Glazebrook, University of Minnesota |
| 4:00 | “Massively parallel eQTL analysis of complex traits in mice” Daniel Pomp, University of North Carolina |