SGLPGE Symposium Program

Monday, May 4th

11:00 - 13:00
Registration & Coffee
13:00 - 13:30
Welcome (Symposium co-chairs and UW representatives)
13:30 - 14:10
Keynote Speaker
  • [video] [PDF] Dr. Jim Crow (University of Wisconsin) "Then and now: some old problems reconsidered"
14:10 - 17:20
Session 1: "Whole Genome Association Analysis"
Chairs: Dr. Luis Varona (IRTA, Spain) & Dr. Natalia de Leon (UW-Madison)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 2: Dr. Henner Simianer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) "Footprints of domestication and selection in the bovine genome"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 3: Dr. Agustin Blasco (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) "Modifying growth curve shape by genomic selection"
Coffee break (30 min)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 4: Dr. David Allison (University of Alabama-Birmingham) "Background ancestry and other covariate modeling in genome-wide association studies: state of the art and ongoing challenges"
  • [audio] [PDF] Speaker 5: Dr. William Hill (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) "Inferences on the genetic architecture of quantitative traits from genome wide analyses"
17:30 - 19:30
Poster Session
Cheese & Wine
19:30 - 22:00
Optional Entertainment:
State Street, Memorial Union or Observatory

Tuesday, May 5th

08:30 - 12:20
Session 2: "Animal Functional Genomics"
Chairs: Dr. Ismo Stranden (MTT, Finland) & Dr. Sandra Rodriguez-Zas (University of Illinois)
  • [video] Speaker 6: Dr. Max Rothschild (Iowa State University) "Genomics and statistical genetics: Together at last!"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 7: Dr. Sunduz Keles (University of Wisconsin) "Expression quantitative trait loci mapping with multivariate sparse partial least squares regression"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 8: Dr. Miguel Perez-Enciso (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) "Next generation sequencing for next generation genomics"
Coffee break (30 min)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 9: Dr. Robert Tempelman (Michigan State University) "Re-calibrating mixed model inference for genetics and genomics"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 10: Dr. Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State University) "Clustering genes using posterior distributions"
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 17:20
Session 3: "Systems Biology"
Chairs: Dr. Hugo Naya (Inst. Pasteur, Uruguay) & Dr. Romdhane Rekaya (University of Georgia)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 11: Dr. Miguel Toro (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) "Mating allocation in genomic selection"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 12: Dr. Daniel Sorensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark) "The genetics of environmental variation"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 13: Dr. Dan Nettleton (Iowa State University) "Testing for differentially expressed gene categories on the Gene Ontology directed acyclic graph"
Coffee break (30 min)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 14: Dr. Bjorg Heringstad (University of Life Sciences, Norway) "Structural equation models in animal breeding"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 15: Dr. Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin) "Machine learning for systems biology"
17:20 - 18:00
Social time; drinks
18:00 - 19:30
Dinner

Wednesday, May 6th

08:30 - 12:40
Session 4: "Whole Genome Enabled Animal Selection"
Chairs: Dr. Rodolfo Cantet (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina) & Dr. Jean-Michel Elsen (INRA, France)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 16: Dr. Ben Hayes (DPI-VIC, Australia) "Genomic selection in the era of the $1000 genome sequence"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 17: Dr. Moshe Soller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) "Is there life after WGA"
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 18: Dr. Rohan Fernando (Iowa State University) "A mixture model for genomic selection"
Coffee break (20 min)
  • [video] [PDF] Speaker 19: Dr. Ignacy Misztal (University of Georgia) "Single-step national evaluation using phenotypic, full pedigree and genomic information"
11:40 - 12:40
Panel Discussion and Closing
Chairs: Dr. Guilherme Rosa & Dr. Kent Weigel (University of Wisconsin)
Panel Discussants:
  • Dr. Brian Kinghorn (University of New England, Australia)
  • Dr. Paul VanRaden (AIPL-USDA)
  • Dr. William Muir (Purdue University)