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 74th EAAP Conference took place in Lyon, August 31- September 1, 2023.

• Aniek Bouwman (WUR) – Biology-driven genomic predictions for dry matter intake within and across-breeds using WGS data

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