Events with BovReg Participation

BovReg representatives will attend numerous conferences, workshops and fairs; during these events, the latest project developments, progress and results will be presented to the audience.

2023

The Plant and Animal Genome XXX Conference (PAG) took place in San Diego, January 13-18, 2023.

• Peter Harrison (EMBL-EBI) – The global FAANG Data Portal and its role in the future EuroFAANG infrastructure

Permanent display within the Roslin Institute, January 5, 2023.

• Mazdak Salavati (UEDIN) – Transcriptome analysis of crossbred and purebred cattle using CAGE and mRNA-Seq for the BovReg Project

2022

Nextflow Summit was held in Barcelona, on October 12-14, 2022.

• Björn Langer (CRG) – Nf-core as the standard for BovReg reference pipelines

Kongress zur Zucht und Erhaltung alter und bedrohter einheimischer Nutztierrassen, 27 September 2022, Bonn.

• Christa Kuehn – Genomannotation –FAANG

GA4GH – The Global Alliance for Genomics And Health 10th Plenary Meeting was held on September 22 — 23, 2022 at the CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain.

• Björn Langer (CRG) – Nf-core as the standard for BovReg reference pipelines

ECCB 2022 – 21st European Conference on Computational Biology Planetary Health and Biodiversity 12-21 September 2022 Sitges, Barcelona.

• Björn Langer (CRG) – Nf-core as the standard for BovReg reference pipelines

EurSafe2022 conference – Transforming Food Systems: Ethics, Innovation and Responsibility. September 7 – 8 2022, Edinburgh.

• Franck Meijboom (UU) – Broadening the debate on Breeding Innovations on public engagement and the role of the Democs Game
• Donald Bruce (Edinethics) – Bringing animal ethics down to earth? Playing a Democs card game on cattle breeding

EIP-Agri und AKIS: “So geht es writer”  Workshop was held in Hannover, 7th & 8th September.

• Christa Kühn (FBN) – EU H2020 Projekt BovReg: Identification of functionally active genomic regions relevant to phenotypic diversity and plasticity in cattle (DE)

WCGALP – The 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production was held in Rotterdam between July 3 and 8, 2022.

• Praveen Krishna Chitneedi (FBN) – Bioinformatics workflow for the detection of eQTL in the cattle genome using Nextflow DSL2
• Mazdak Salavati (UEDIN) – Comparative analysis of CAGE-Seq across tissues reveals transcription start sites unique to cattle
• Franck Meijboom (UU) – Broadening the debate on breeding innovations. On public engagement and the role of the Democs Game
• Marie-Pierre Sanchez (INRAE) – Sequence-based GWAS meta-analyses for beef production traits
• Gabriel Costa Monteiro Moreira (LIEGE) – Multi-dimensional functional annotation of bovine genome for the BovReg project
• Pascal Croiseau, Fanny Mollandin et al. (INRAE), joint BovReg/Gene-Switch work – Capitalizing on complex annotations in bayesian genomic prediction for a backcross population of growing pigs
• Presentation by Birgit Gredler-Grandl (WR) – Accuracy of genomic prediction of DMI in Dutch Holsteins using sequence variants from meta-analyses

GENE-SWitCH & GEroNIMO Stakeholder Workshop was held in Rotterdam on July 3, 2022.

• Franck Meijboom (UU) – Broadening the debate on Breeding: on the Ethical and Societal dimensions of innovations in livestock breeding

Web conférence eBis Actu : Le pangénome dans tous ses états was held on June 16, 2022.

• Thierry Tribout (INRAE) – Méta-analyses d’association à partir des séquences complètes du génome bovin :application aux caractères vouchers (FR)

FABRE/EFFAB Annual General Meeting was held in Evora on May 3, 2022.

• Johanna Vilkki (LUKE) – Identification of functionally active genomic regions relevant to phenotypic diversity and plasticity in cattle

FAANG Workshop was held online on February 16, 2022.

• Gabriel Costa Monteiro Moreira (LIEGE) – Toward a high-resolution functional annotation of the cattle genome using novel breeds/crosses

AG2PI Data reuse virtual workshop was held on February 9, 2022.

• Peter Harrison (EMBL-EBI) – The Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes Data Portal, Current and future perspectives for data reuse

SAPS webinar was held on January 21, 2022.

• Marie-Pierre Sanchez (INRAE) – H2020 BovRegMeta-analyses GWAS à partir des séquences complètes du génome bovin (FR)

2021

International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) 2021 – Virtual Conference was held on July 26-30, 2021.

• Gabriel Costa Monteiro Moreira (LIEGE) – BovReg: a high-resolution functional annotation of the cattle genome using novel breeds/crosses
• Mazdak Salavati (UEDIN) – Annotation of transcription start sites in the bovine genome reveals novel breed-specific complexity
• Peter Harrison (EMBL-EBI) – The Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes Project: Progress and challenges for our continued global effort

AG2PI Field Day – Virtual Conference was held on June 16, 2021.

• Peter Harrison (EMBL-EBI) –  Importance of rich ‘FAIR’ validated metadata, standardised protocols and analyses, and open-access datasets for G2P

2020

The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) took place in San Diego, January 11-15, 2020.

• Christa Kühn (FBN) – BovReg: Identification of functionally active genomic regions relevant to phenotypic diversity and plasticity in cattle
• Peter Harrison (EMBL-EBI) – The FAANG Data Coordination Centre: New European perspectives for our continued global effort