See you in Prague

EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON POULTRY GENETICS

23. – 25. 10. 2019

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLICC I T Y C O N F E R E N C E C E N T E R

www.espg2019.org

SYMPOSIUM SECRETARIAT

GUARANT International s. r. o.

Phone: +420 284 001 444Fax: +420 284 001 448

E-mail: espg2019@guarant.cz

Working Group 3 „Breeding and Genetics“

REGISTRATION IS OPEN

Regular registration fee - available until

September 15

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DAY 1 Wednesday 23. 10. 2019 12:30 - 13:15 Opening & Keynote lecture

• Anordnung der Elemente: Mendel‘s Innovative Concept and Discovery of Genetic Information (Jiri Sekerak, Czech Republic)

13:15 - 15:00 Session 1 - New breeding technologies• New approach in chicken transgenesis – male route (Pavel Trefil, Czech Republic)• Biotechnological solution of antivirus resistence (Jiri Hejnar, Czech Republic)• Genome editing and transformation in chicken Primoridal Germ Cells for embryonic sex selection (Yuval Cinnamon, Israel)• A talk regarding the EU legal framework on New Animal Breeding techniques (Ana Granados Chapatte, Belgium)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 17:15 Session 2 - Genetic diversity

• Biobanking and genome editing chicken using sterile host technology (Mike McGrew, United Kingdom)• Enhancing the functioning of farm animal gene banks in Europe: results of the IMAGE project (Sipke Joost Hiemstra, Netherlands)• From wild populations to global diversity - Insight into the Synbreed Chicken Diversity Panel (Dorcus Kholofelo Malomane, Germany)• Hidden genes in chickens (Daniel Elleder, Czech Republic)

17:30 - 18:30 Poster Session - One-Minute oral poster presentations 18:30 - 21:00 Poster viewing & Welcome reception

DAY 2 Thursday 24. 10. 2019 09:00 - 10:30 Session 3 - Genomics & Genomic Selection

• Conceptual, Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Genomic Selection in Turkeys (Christine Baes, Canada)• Use of data from crossbred animals for a genomic evaluation of pure line layer (Pascale Le Roy, France)• Sequence data for genomic prediction in livestock breeding (Roger Ros-Freixedes, United Kingdom)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Session 4 - Dual purpose chickens

• Traditional approach to dual purpose chicken breeding (Roy Trott, United Kingdom)• Dual purpose breeding from a broiler and a layer perspective (Britt de Klerk & Treun van de Braak, Netherlands)• Dual-purpose production (eggs and meat) of 10 genetically different crossbreeds in Ethiopia (Dawud Ibrahim, Ethiopia)• African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project (Tadelle Dessie, Ethiopia)• How can Traditional Poultry help the development of Africa (Louis Perrault, France)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 PhD Award session - Oral presentations of four selected abstracts 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 17:00 Session 5 - Microbiota

• Biodiversity of the caecal metagenome of chicken and role of host genetics in its variations (Fanny Calenge, France)•Microbiome and immune interactions: a new frontier of understanding of gut health and disease (Paul Wigley, United Kingdom)• Development of chicken gut microbiota and selection of new generation of probiotics (Ivan Rychlik, Czech Republic)

17:00 - 18:00 Business Meeting 19:00 Gala dinner

DAY 3 Friday 25. 10. 2019 09:00 - 10:30 Session 6 - New breeding goals for poultry species

• Adaptability, resilience and biological efficiency in poultry (Santiago Avendano, United Kingdom)• Broiler breast myopathies: possible underlying mechanisms involved in the occurrence (Francesca Soglia, Italy)• Strategies for reducing breast muscle myopathies in broiler chickens (Richard Bailey, United Kingdom)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Session 7 - Breeding for other avian species

• Development and validation of high density SNP array in ducks (Sophie Brard-Fudulea, France)• Practical applications of genomic assignment methods in the avian breeding industry (Romuald Rouger, France)• Gobal biodiversity genomics and birds: a general overview, and a case study of functional diversity in immune genes in ducks (Robert H.S.

Kraus, Germany)

12:30 - 12:45 Closing speech

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