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Summary on 31st ISAG conference Amsterdam, 2008 General information 1. Date: 20-24 July 2008 2. Venue: RAI hall, Amsterdam 3. Website: www.isag2008.nl 4. Proceedings: 300 abstract (No.1001-5047) 5. Registration fee: 575€ 6. Participant: less than 29th? China: CAU; CAAS; HZAU; SCAU; JXAU 7. Abstract by us: The Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Chicken 70-kilodalton Heat Shock Protein (HSP70) Gene cDNA cloning, characterization and variation analysis of chicken adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) gene (poster, oral presentation) Conference program 1. RNAi in mammalian systems Vivek Mittal (Cold spring harbor, USA) 2. Going from OMICs data to biological knowledge in livestock Fiona McCarthy (Mississippi state univ. USA) Am, 20 July: Genomes, function and emerging application (chief: Bhanu Chowdary and Tosso Leeb) 3. Genomic variations and functional elements in the bovine genome George Liu (USDA bovine func. Genom. Lab, USA) 4.Highly effective SNP based association mapping and management of recessive defects in livestock Carole Charlier (Liege Univ. Belgium) 5. Harvesting time for chicken genomics Leif Anderson (Uppsala uiv. Sweden) 1. Genetics of autoimmune thyroid disease in human W.Wiersinga (Univ of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2. Transcriptomic of immune response to Samonella infection in the pig Chris Tuggle (Iowa state univ. USA) Am, 21 July: Genetics of immune response (chief: Susan Lamont and Inger Edfors) 3. Molecular investigation of resistance to amoebic gill disease in Atlantic salmon James Wynn (Australia) 4. Polymorphisms in DRB3 binding pockets affect immune response to a FMDV peptide in cattle Rebecca Baxter (Roslin insti. Univ of Edinburg) Am, 23 July: Forensics, legal aspects and technical challenges in low copy number DNA amplication 1. A comparative approach to identify and understand metastasis-associated genes in osteosarcoma Chand Khanna (USA) 2. The pig as a biome