Animal Breeding and Genetics Symposium I: The Central Dogma of Phenomics

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM MT

Location: Albuquerque Convention Center, WEST UPPER: Ballroom B

Chair(s)

Jennifer Hernandez Gifford

Associate Professor
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico

9:00 AM – 9:05 AM MT

Animal Breeding and Genetics Symposium I Introduction
9:05 AM – 9:35 AM MT

The power of pangenome assemblies in ruminants
Presenting Author: Brenda M. Murdoch, PhD – University of Idaho
Author: Benjamin D. Rosen, PhD – USDA
Author: Stephanie McKay – University of Missouri-Columbia
Author: Timothy Smith, PhD – USDA
9:35 AM – 10:05 AM MT

Establishing a pan-epigenome for cattle and sheep
Presenting Author: Stephanie McKay – University of Missouri-Columbia
Author: Brenda M. Murdoch, PhD – University of Idaho
Author: Darren E. Hagen – Oklahoma State University
10:05 AM – 10:35 AM MT

Large-scale CRISPR functional characterization of genomic elements in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
Presenting Author: Michael Phelps, PhD – Washington State University
10:35 AM – 10:50 AM MT

Animal Breeding and Genetics Symposium I Break
10:50 AM – 11:20 AM MT

Mixed-effects multilayer neural networks for genome-wide analysis including intermediate omics data in the central dogma of phenomics
Presenting Author: Hao Cheng – University of California, Davis
11:20 AM – 11:50 AM MT

Biomarker-based high throughput sperm phenotyping: The good, the bad and the ugly
Presenting Author: Peter Sutovsky, PhD, Dr.h.c. – University of Missouri-Columbia
11:50 AM – 12:30 PM MT

Animal Breeding and Genetics Symposium I Discussion