Advances in Applied & Comparative Genetics

A Symposium in Honor of:

Distinguished Professor James Womack’s

30 Years of Service to Texas A&M University

and the Scientific Community

Thursday, April 26, 2007

&

Friday, April 27, 2007

Location: 

College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Texas A&M University

This symposium is dedicated to the international impact Dr. Womack has had in the field of comparative animal genomics. We gather to celebrate his contributions through science, teaching and collaboration on the occasion of his eighth anniversary of being elected to the National Academy of Science.

Agenda

Thursday, April 26

2:30 - 3:30      Registration

3:30 - 3:45      Welcome – Drs. Jim Derr and Loren Skow; Texas A&M Faculty Symposium Sponsors 

3:45 – 4:00     Introductory Remarks; Allan Dietz, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

4:00 – 5:00     Keynote Address; Stephen J. O’Brien, National Cancer Institute

6:00 – 8:00     Reception.

Friday, April 27

7:30 – 8:00        Registration

Comparative Genomics

8:00 – 9:00        Special Lecture; Harris Lewin, University of Illinois “”

9:00 – 9:20        Kate Meurs, Washington State University,  “Comparative genetics and cardiomyopathy: cats, dogs and humans

9:20 – 9:40        Deborah Threadgill. University of North Carolina "Comparative Genomics of Campylobacter Species"

9:40 – 10:00      Penny Riggs, Texas A&M “To be determined”

10:00 – 10:15    Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:00    Loren Skow, Texas A&M  “Evolution of MHC”

11:00 – 11:20    Stephanie McKay, “Mapping the bovine Genome”

11:20 – 11:40    Caird Rexroad, USDA National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, “Genetic mapping of rainbow trout”           

11:40 – 12:00    Duane Kraemer, Texas A&M

12:00 – 1:00      Lunch

Applied Genetics

1:00 – 1:45     David Threadgill, University of North Carolina “'From Mendelian traits to systems genetics: integrative biology using genetic reference populations'

1:50 – 2:10     Robert Livingston, University of Washington, “Variation discovery in candidate disease genes for the Environmental Genome Project: Disease susceptibility, selection, and human origins”

2:10 – 2:30     Stephen White, Washington State Universiy,  “Genetic Variation in Host Control of a Sheep Lentivirus

2:30 – 2:50     Greg Fontenot, EMD Lexigen“Analysis of Infertile Male Knock-Out Lines: Identifying Targets for Male                   

                     Contraception”

2:50 – 3:10     Kristen Taylor, University of Missouri, “Genome-wide analysis of CpG methylation in leukemia and non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma”

3:10 – 3:30     Coffee Break

3:30 – 3:50     Yaping Yang, Baylor College of Medicine  “Reporting of Sequence Variations in Clinical Laboratories”

3:50 – 4:10     Nan Zhang, Lexicon Genetics “Cancer Genomics and Therapuetics”

4:10 – 4:30     Lei Li, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas  “Genetics in Medical Practice”

4:30 – 4:50     Heather Wieman, Duke University "Glut1 trafficking is growth factor regulated via dual Akt-and GIPC-mediated

                     pathways"

4:50 – 5:10     Tammy Tobin-Janzen,    Susquchanna University "When It's Hot It's Hot: Microbial Ecology In Soils Overlying the

                     Centralia, Pennsylvania Coal Mine Fire."

5:10 –  5:30    Allan Dietz, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine;  “Information transfer in the Immune System

6:30 – 7:00     Meet and Greet Alumni Center

7:00 – 7:15     Welcoming Remarks, Texas A&M University

7:00 – 8:00     Dinner

8:00 – 8:30     Memory Lane, Drs, Threadgill and Skow

8:30 – 9:30     Dr. Womack speaks