6th Annual MapNet Programme

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MapNet Programme

2nd September — 3rd September, 2010
Rydges Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand

Wednesday 1st September
2.00pm-5.00pm	Registration
7.00pm-Late	QMB Dinner and Fashionomics, Skyline restaurant

Thursday 2nd September
8.30am-9.00am	Opening Remarks and House keeping Phillip Wilcox and Emily Telfer
9.00am-10.00 am	Richard Michelmore (MN1), University of California, Davis Genetics and Genomics of Disease Resistance in Lettuce.
10.00am-10.30 am	Morning Tea, Trades Area
	MapNet Session 1 Chaired by Jeanne Jacobs
10.30am-10.50 am	Donia Macartney-Coxson (MN2) Environmental Science and Research Ltd Towards personalized medicine, a novel bioinformatic approach - identifying genomic signatures for disease risk prediction
10.50am-11.10am	Tony Merriman (MN3) University of Otago The SOX6 gene: Evidence for shared genetic susceptibility between schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis in Caucasians
11.10am-11.30am	Erik Rikkerink (MN4) Plant & Food Research Positional cloning of the apple powdery mildew resistance gene Pl2 demonstrates it retains function upon deletion of most of the LRR
11.30am-11.50am	Zhidong Yu (MN5) AgResearch Uncovering Genetic and Expression Linkages for Selecting Sheep with Improved Farming Efficiency
12.00am-1.00pm	Lunch, Trades Area
	MapNet Session 2 Chaired by Phillip Wilcox
1.00pm-1.25pm	Rod Ball (MN6) Scion Statistical methods for whole genome selection and prediction
1.25pm-1.50pm	Ken Dodds (MN7) AgResearch Individual Accuracies for Molecular Breeding Values Based on the Genomic Numerator Relationship Matrix
1.50pm-2.15pm	Mik Black (MN8) University of Otago Exploring Copy Number Variation in the 1000 Genomes Project
2.15pm-2.40pm	Rudi Brauning (MN9) AgResearch Salmon SNPs - combining different sequencing platforms
2.40pm-3.05pm	Rod Ball (MN10) Scion Experimental Design for Genome-wide case-control studies
3.05pm-3.30pm	Afternoon tea, Trades Area
	MapNet Session 3 Chaired by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan
3.30pm-3.55pm	Geoff Gill (MN11) ViaLactia Candidate gene-based association mapping of forage quality traits in perennial ryegrass
3.55pm-4.20pm	Samantha Baldwin (MN12) Plant & Food Research Targeted marker development in onion (Allium cepa)
4.20pm-4.45pm	John Mackay (MN13) dnature Ltd Scanning, genotyping, sequence comparisons — the multiple facets of high resolution melting
4.45pm-5.10pm	Alayna Burrett (MN14) ViaLactia Genetic variation in bovine PIGR influences colostrum IgA concentration
5.10pm-5.35pm	Phillip Wilcox (MN15) Scion Financial modelling of benefits from Gene-Assisted Selection (GAS) in radiata pine improvement in New Zealand
	Pacific Lab Products Cocktails and Poster Session Trades area

Friday 3rd September
9.00am-10.00am	Chris Jenkinson (MN16) University of Texas Mapping Type 2 Diabetes Genes: Genome-Wide Association Studies and the Hunt for the Dark Matter of the Genome
10.00am-10.30am	Morning Tea, Trades area
	MapNet Session 4 Chaired by John McCallum
10.30am-10.55am	David Chagné (MN17) Plant & Food Research An apple QTL a day ...
10.55am-11.20am	Paul Fisher (MN18) AgResearch Genomic Sequences and SNP discovery in cervids
11.20am-11.45am	Andrew Griffiths (MN19) AgResearch Towards Marker-Assisted Selection for Yield and Vegetative Traits in White Clover
12.00pm-1.00pm	Lunch, Trades area
	MapNet Session 5 Chaired by Ken Dodds
1.00pm-1.20pm	Rod Ball (MN20) Scion Peeling and conditional peeling in allo-polyploids.
1.20am-1.40pm	Jeanne Jacobs (MN21) Plant & Food Research The reference potato genome and beyond.
1.40pm-2.00pm	Gail Timmerman-Vaughan (MN22) Plant & Food Research Association mapping of yield candidate gene homologs in a diverse collection of pea (Pisum sativum L.) lines
2.00pm-2.10pm	Closing remarks and Thanks
2.10pm-3.00pm	MapNet Forum
3.00pm-3.30pm	Afternoon tea Trades area
	Earnslaw Cruise

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6th Annual MapNet Programme

MapNet Programme

2nd September — 3rd September, 2010Rydges Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand

2nd September — 3rd September, 2010
Rydges Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand