Animal Genetics and Diseases

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Saffron Walden, CB10 1SA

Abstract Submission

Closes 9th April

General Information

The second conference in this series will highlight recent advances in animal genetics and genomic technologies. It will bring together specialists working on the interface of genomics, genetic engineering and infectious disease with the aims of improving animal and human health and welfare.

Novel genomic technologies, mathematical modelling and quantitative genetics approaches, applied to host animals, as well as their pathogens, have transformed the understanding of animal diseases, host-pathogen interactions and epidemiology and their effects on productivity of farmed animal species and food supply chains.

This year’s conference will not only put the spotlight on the immune response of host animals and epidemiology but also cover the genetics and genomics of pathogens and the impact of animal-human relationships.

We encourage registrations from researchers, breeders and technical specialists interested in learning and disseminating the latest cutting-edge techniques and methodologies across model species, wildlife, farmed animals and companion animals.

Deadline for submissions: 9th April

Meeting organisers:

Leif Andersson, Mark Fife, Susan Lamont, Helen Sang

Speakers:

Confirmed speakers

• Julian Knight – University of Oxford, UK
• Linda Saif – Ohio State University, USA
• Piter Bijma – Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Margarida Cardoso Moreira – Heidelberg University, Germany
• Dirk-Jan De Koning – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Tove Fall – Uppsala University, Sweden
• Jim Kaufman – University of Cambridge, UK
• Joan Lunney – USDA-ARS-Beltsville, USA
• Alison Mather – Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK
• Massimo Palmarini – University of Glasgow, UK
• Holly Shelton – The Pirbright Institute, UK
• Anna Sonesson – Nofima, Norway
• Christine Tait-Burkard – The Roslin Institute, UK
• Christopher Tuggle – Iowa State University, USA
• Anna Wolc – Hy-Line, USA
• Huaijun Zhou – University of California, Davis, USA