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US–AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIES JOINT WORKSHOP ON VERTEBRATE COMPARATIVE GENOMICS
Beckman Conference Centre, Irvine, California, 23–25 May 2007

Tuesday, 22 May

Welcome and agenda Hyatt Regency Newport Beach Hotel – Garden Room 1

Mike Clegg Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine Foreign Secretary, US National Academy of Sciences Jim Womack Distinguished Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and Director, Center for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas A&M University Jenny Graves Director, ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics and Head, Comparative Genomics Research Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University Foreign Secretary, Australian Academy of Science

Wednesday, 23 May

Technologies for sequencing and assembly

Wes Warren Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine Vertebrate genome sequencing and analysis: Lessons learned

Erica Sodergren Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine Collaborative analysis from the sea urchin perspective

Steve Scherer Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine Multiple platform approaches to medical resequencing for variation discovery

Annette McGrath/Peter Wilson Bioinformatics Manager/Sequencing Business Unit Manager, Australian Genome Research Facility, Brisbane and Melbourne The tammar wallaby genome: An essential piece in the phylogenetic puzzle

Terry Speed Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley An overview of KanGO bioinformatics

Tony Papenfuss Research Officer, Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Identification of highly diverged genes and application to mammalian comparative immunogenomics

Mapping large genomes

Ben Hayes (presentation given by Ben Cocks) State Wide Leader, Computational Biology, Department of Primary Industries A genome map of divergent artificial selection between Bos taurus dairy cattle and Bos taurus beef cattle

Kyall Zenger Lecturer, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney Tools to better understand the genetic architecture of animal genomes: Current developments in cattle and wallaby genetic map construction

Janine Deakin Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University Efficient generation of a physical map for the tammar wallaby genome

Brian Dalrymple Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Livestock Industries Predicting genome structure from limited sequencing – the virtual sheep genome

Using comparative genome analysis

Herman Raadsma Director, ReproGen- Centre for Advanced Technologies in Animal Genetics and Reproduction, University of Sydney A multi-species integrated comparative genomics approach for lactation biology

Jill Maddox Senior Research Fellow, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne Linkage mapping the sheep genome

Cindy Bottema Lecturer, Discipline of Agricultural & Animal Science, University of Adelaide Applications of comparative genomics to bovidae

Jim Womack Distinguished Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and Director, Center for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas A&M University Application of the bovine whole genome sequence to SNP discovery in Toll-like receptor genes

Jenny Graves Director, ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics and Head, Comparative Genomics Research Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University Foreign Secretary, Australian Academy of Science Nobody is laughing at weird animal genomes any more

Thursday, 24 May

Ben Cocks (Jianghui Wang, Jane C. Whitley) Research Director, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Department of Primary Industries A potent antimicrobial protein expressed in wallaby milk

Elizabeth Murchison Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Devil Facial Tumor Disease: a transmissible cancer affecting Tasmanian devils

Chromosome evolution

Harris Lewin Institute for Genomic Biology, Univeristy of Illinois  New discoveries resulting from the high resolution analysis of chromosome rearrangements in vertebrate genomes

Pavel Pevzner Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego Are there rearrangement hotspots in human genome?

Robert Wayne Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA   Evolutionary genomics of canids

Rachael O’Neill Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomics, University of Connecticut The dynamic centromere of marsupials

Chris Moran Professor of Animal Genetics, University of Sydney Smile at the crocodile: a valuable contribution to vertebrate comparative genomics

Genome evolution

David Haussler Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Reconstructing 100 million years of human evolutionary history

Katherine Belov Research Fellow/Lecturer, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney MHC genes of opossums, wallabies, koalas, devils and platypuses

Lisa Stubbs Genome Biology Group, CMLS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Rapidly evolving transcription factors and change in vertebrate gene regulatory networks

Gavin Huttley Head, Computational Genomics Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University The evolutionary dynamics of mC in vertebrate genomes

Sex chromosomes and imprinting

Bill Murphy Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University Novel Y chromosome gene discovery in carnivores

Paul Waters Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University Homology shared by bird and platypus sex chromosomes reveals a recent origin for mammalian sex chromosomes

Frank Grützner Australian Research Council Research Fellow, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide Genome organisation, sex chromosomes and epigenetics in monotremes, birds and bovine hybrids

Matthew Wakefield Senior Research Fellow, Bioinformatics, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Are transposable elements a turn off for the X?

Steve O’Brien Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute Annotating light 2x genome sequence from 26 placental mammalian species: Lessons from a cat named Cinnamon

Friday, 25 May

Art Arnold Department of Physiological Science, UCLA Ineffective sex chromosome dosage compensation in birds

Ross Tellam Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland Rapid evolution of genomic imprinting

Oportunities for US–Australian collaboration Chairs: Jim Womack and Jenny Graves