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Genome to Phenome: A USDA Blueprint for Improving Animal Production
National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland
November 15 and 16, 2017
Iowa State University Workshop Website
AGENDA
Wednesday November 15, 2017
9:00 am: Welcome
Dr. Caird Rexroad (USDA-ARS), Dr. Jeff Vallet (USDA-ARS) and Dr. Adele Turzillo (USDA-NIFA), Dr. Lakshmi Matukumalli (USDA-NIFA)
9:05 am: Logistics Dr. Caird Rexroad, USDA ARS
9:10 am: The 2008 Blueprint for USDA Efforts in Agricultural Animal Genomics
Dr. Ronnie Green, Chancellor, University of Nebraska
9:20 am: Implementing Blueprint at the USDA
Dr. Jeffrey Silverstein, USDA ARS and Dr. Parag Chitnis, USDA NIFA
9:40 am: Implementing the Blueprint with Federal and International Partners (Introductions)
Dr. Jennifer Weller (DBI) NSF; Dr. Neelakanta Ravindranath (NICHD) and Dr. Dan Gilchrist (NHGRI), NIH; Dr. Ramana Madupu, DOE; Dr. Lindsay Parish USAID; Dr. Tim Kurt, FFAR; Dr. Jean-Charles Cavitte, European Commission
9:50 am: Developing a Next Generation Blueprint Dr. Caird Rexroad, USDA ARS
10:00 am: Livestock High-Throughput Phenotyping and Big Data Analytics Dr. James Reecy, Iowa State University
10:40 am: Livestock Industry Perspectives
11:30 am: Discussion Session I: Science to Practice
Precision Selection 1: Dr. Curt Van Tassell, Dr. Caird Rexroad, Sara Nilson, Luke Kramer
Precision Selection 2: Dr. Jerry Taylor, Dr. Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli, Troy Rowan
Precision Management Systems 1: Dr. Mark Boggess, Dr. Jeffrey Silverstein, Kaitlyn Daza
Precision Management Systems 2: Dr. Archie Clutter, Dr. Jeffrey Vallet, Bethany Krehbiel
12:00 pm: Working Lunch
1:00 pm: Thoughts on Components of an Agricultural Data Ecosystem Dr. Sean Davis, NIH
1:40 pm: Long Reads and the Future of Vertebrate Genome Sequencing Dr. Adam Phillippy, NIH
2:20 pm: Discussion Session II: Discovery Science
Genomic and Functional Biology: Dr. Cathy Ernst, Dr. Joan Lunney, Troy Rowan
Host Pathogen Interactions: Dr. Hans Cheng, Dr. Holly Neibergs, Sara Nilson
Phenotyping: Dr. Jeffrey Vallet, Dr. Jim Reecy, Bethany Krehbiel, Kaitlyn Daza
Microbiome and Metagenomics: Dr. Derek Bickhart, Dr. Tim Smith, Luke Kramer
3:50 pm: Report Out – Discussion Sessions I and II
4:30 pm: Panel Discussion – Federal and International Partners
5:00 pm: Adjourn
**This workshop is supported by AFRI grant 2017-67015-26907 project accession 1013525 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the ARS Office of National Programs, and the National Agricultural Library.
