From FMcCarthy at cvm.msstate.edu Fri Jan 4 06:17:29 2008 From: FMcCarthy at cvm.msstate.edu (Fiona McCarthy) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:17:29 -0600 Subject: [farmanimals] Announcement: Delivering Value from Avian Genomics Message-ID: This is the first announcement for the upcoming international meeting ?Delivering Value from Avian Genomics? May 19-20, 2008 and "Avian Gene Ontology (GO) and Microarray Data Modeling Workshop", immediately following on May 21-22, 2008. Both events will be held at Mississippi State University (fly to Atlanta and then to our local airport at GTR). The meeting theme is to identify how value can be derived from past and future investments in and from genomics research in aves. This theme is in response to the recently released "Blueprint for USDA Efforts in Agricultural Animal Genomics 2008?2017", the sequencing of the zebra finch genome and the high profile importance of aves in human disease. We are inviting interested representatives of USDA, NIH and CDC. We are now negotiating to have invited and selected manuscripts published in a special issue of a genomics journal. The Avian Gene Ontology (GO) and Microarray Data Modeling Workshop will provide education about the Gene Ontology, advice on the ways that you may have annotated or annotate your own datasets and education on the tools available to use the GO to model your microarray (and other) functional genomics datasets to derive biological meaning. Graduate student travel awards will be available. Further details will be made available via this newsgroup and anyone interested can send an email to agbase at cse.msstate.edu and also be added to the conference and/or workshop mailing list. regards, Shane Burgess Susan Bridges Fiona McCarthy