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UC Davis Transgenic Animal Research Conference IV

Sunday, August 10

2:00 - 5:00 pmRegistration

6:30 pmGet Acquainted Reception and Light Buffet - Garden Deck

8:30 pmNo-host bar - Garden Deck

Monday, August 11

7:00 - 8:00 amBreakfast - Granhall (each morning Monday - Thursday)

ALL PLENARY SESSIONS - LAKE/BAY ROOM

8:00 - 8:10Welcome, James Murray

Department of Animal Science, University of California Davis

SESSION ISession Chair - George Seidel Jr

8:10 - 8:30George Seidel Jr.

Colorado State University, USA

Setting the Stage: Transgenic Vertebrates — The Long Road to Practical Application

8:30 - 9:10Carol Readhead

California Institute of Technology

Male Germ Cells: manipulating their genome

9:10 – 9:45Knut Madden

Invitrogen Corporation, USA

RNAi, an overview and application tools

9:45 -10:15Tea/Coffee - Mountain Deck

SESSION 2Session Chair – Hosup Shim (Dankook University, Korea)

10:15 – 10:50Ken Wang

BioAgri Corporation, USA

Improving sperm-mediated transgenesis

10:50 - 11:20 Ian F. C. McKenzie

XenoTrans Ltd, Victoria, Australia

SMGT: Production of multigene transgenic pigs with high efficiency

11:20 - 12:00T. Sathiyaseelan

Hematech, LLC., Sioux Falls, SD

Cloned transchromosomic calves for production of human polyclonal antibodies

12:00 - 4:00Lunch/Free Time - Garden Deck

Rafting option: check at front desk for sign-up

POSTER4:00 - 5:30 Mountain Room

SESSION 1

6:00 p.m.Dinner - Garden Deck

SESSION 3Session Chair – Marcelo Bertolini (University of California Davis, USA)

8:00 – 8:40Carol Keefer

University of Maryland, USA

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in Goats: A superior domestic animal model?

8:40 – 9:30Julang Li

University of Guelph, Canada

Stem cells from porcine skin: could they be better donors for nuclear transfer

Tuesday, August 12

SESSION4Session Chair – James Pettite (North Carolina State University, USA)

8:00 - 8:45Helen Sang

Roslin Institute, UK

Efficient production of transgenic chickens using lentiviral vectors

8:45 - 9:30Marie-Cecile van de Lavoir

Origen Therapeutics, USA

ES technology and capability in the production of transgenic chickens

9:30 - 10:00 a.m.Tea/Coffee - Mountain Deck

SESSION 5Session Chair – Alison Van Eeneennaam (University of California Davis)

10:00 - 10:40Shou Lin

UCLA

Animal Cloning and High Throughput Bacterial Artificial Chromosomal (BAC) Transgenesis in Zebrafish

10:40 - 11:20Norman McLean

University of Southampton

Transgenesis to regulate growth and fertility in tilapia fish (Oreochromis niloticus)

11:20 - 12:00Heather Hostetler

Texas A&M University, USA

Ecological risks and benefits of fish transgenic for the phytase gene

12:00 - 1:30Lunch - Garden Deck

SESSION 6Session Chair – Ray Page (Cyagra Inc., USA)

1:30 - 2:15Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán

Departamento de Reproducción, INIA, Spain

Transgenic models to study BSE

2:15 - 3:00Yann Echelard

GTC Biotherapeutics, USA

Transgenic goats and cows for the production of therapeutic proteins

3:00 - 3:30 a.m.Tea/Coffee - Mountain Deck

SESSION 7Session Chair – Mark Nottle (BresaGen Limited, Australia)

3:30 - 4:10Ken Bondioli

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Transgenic pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer

4:10 - 4:50David Ayares

Revivicor, Inc., USA

Genetic modification of pigs for xenotransplantation

4:50 - 5:30Randall Prather

University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Transgenic pigs for medicine and agriculture

5:30 - 6:30 Hosted hospitality hour

6:30 p.m. Dinner - Granhall

Wednesday, Ausgust 14

SESSION 8Session Chair - Elizabeth Maga (University of California Davis)

8:00 - 8:35Norm Adams

CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia

Physiology of oMt1a-oGH transgenic sheep: multiple effects and interactions

8:35 - 9:10Matt Wheeler

University of Illinois, USA

Lactation performance and piglet development in bovine - lactalbumin and human IGF-I transgenic swine

9:10 – 9:45Jim Murray

University of California Davis

Changing the composition of milk to improve human and animal health

9:45 - 10:15a.m.Tea/Coffee - Mountain Deck

SESSION9Session Chair – Carl Pinkert (University of Rochester, USA)

10:15 - 10:55Lawrence Smith

University of Montreal

Nuclear – cytoplasmic interactions during cloning: mitochrondrial influences

10:55– 11:35Keith Campbell

University of Nottingham, UK

Novel methods of reprogramming the somatic genome, for cellular dedifferentiation and embryo production by nuclear transfer

11:35– 12:15Cindy Tian

University of Conneticut, USA

Reprogramming of epigenetic inheritance by somatic cell nuclear cloning

12:30 - 4:00Lunch/Free Time - Garden Deck

POSTER4:00 - 5:30- Mountain Room

SESSION 11

6:00 p.m.Dinner - Garden Deck

SESSION 10Session Chair – Anita Oberbauer (University of California Davis)

8:00 – 8:45Thaddeus Golos

University of Wisconsin Madison, USA

“Primate Transgenesis: Opportunities for Basic Research and Resource Development”

8:45 - 9:30 Robert Wall

USDA-ARS

What the future may hold

9:30 - 10:00 General Discussion and Close

Thursday, September 13

7:00 - 8:00 a.m.Breakfast – Granhall

8:00 - afternoonShuttles depart for Reno and Davis