GENE-SWitCH's 1st Newsletter is published!

20/04/2020

We are delighted to announce that the first newsletter of the GENE-SWitCH project is now available!

This very first issue includes news and developments about the project, scientific articles and a closer look at the coordination team of the GENE-SWitCH project.

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​FAANG Shared Workshop: "Foundation for the Future Agenda" 

02/03/2020

At the FAANG shared workshop in Hinxton, UK in February 2020, an overview of GENE-SWitCH and the core annotation workplan ("GENE-SWitCH project overview, approach to bioinformatics and comparative analysis") was given by Sarah Djebali (INSERM, France). 

This meeting's aim was to foster collaboration of FAANG projects - GENE-SWitCH, BovReg and AQUA_FAANG. This meeting was an excellent opportunity for cross project networking, with concrete actions such as the establishment of common working groups for bioinformatic pipelines validation and comparative genomics.

GENE-SWitCH in a nutshell

  • ​Horizon 2020 – Grant agreement number: 817998
  • Type of action: Research and Innovation Action
  • Duration of the project: 48 months 
  • Start date: 01 July 2019
  • Coordinator:  Dr. Elisabetta Giuffra (INRA)
  • ​Partners: 11

FAANG Europe Workshop

15/02/2020

The 2nd FAANG-Europe COST Action Conference on Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) took place in Prague, Czech Republic between 11 – 13 February 2020. 

The GENE-SWitCH project was outlined in a presentation by Elisabetta Giuffra. At the workshop, Peter Harrison from EMBL-EBI gave a talk about “The FAANG Data Coordination Centre: New European perspectives for our continued global effort” at the conference, representing EMBL-EBI's Data Coordination Centre work on GENE-SWitCH, AQUA-FAANG and BovReg projects.

International Plant & Animal Genome Conference XXVIII ​

17/01/2020

The International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXVIII) took place in San Diago, CA, USA between 11-15 January 2020. GENE-SWitCH project coordinator Elisabetta Giuffra made a poster presentation including the short description, aims and first achievements of the GENE-SWitCH project at the conference. Read more...

GENE-SWitCH at ISAG 2019

31/10/2019

GENE-SWitCH project was present at the 37th International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) Conference that was held in Lleida, Spain in July 2019. The Conference brought together outstanding scientists, policy makers, professionals and students from interdisciplinary animal genetics fields to share the latest developments. Read more....

GENE-SWitCH project has started!

21/10/2019

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"The regulatory GENomE of SWine and CHicken: functional annotation during development​​ - GENE-SWitCH" project's fruitful kick-off meeting took place on September 10-11, 2019 in beautiful Paris. 

​Director of the INRA Animal Genetic Division Edwige Quillet started the opening session of the meeting with the presentation of INRA. Jean-Charles Cavitte from the European Commission took the floor to present GENE-SWitCH and related EU funded research landscape. GENE-SWitCH project coordinator Elisabetta Giuffra talked about the overall project’s aims, concept, ambition, structure and highlighted the connections with the global FAANG initiative.

First day of the meeting continued with the presentations on the project's 3 pillars namely "Identification and characterization of functional genomic elements" (Pillar 1), "Implementing FAANG innovation for animal breeding" (Pillar 2) and "Standardization of data and processes, dissemination and outreach" (Pillar 3) and ended with the parallel session discussions on the work packages of the project.

Second day of the meeting started with the clustering activities session with the presentations of BovReg and AQUA-FAANG, followed by round table discussions. During the plenary session, work packages of the project were further discussed and the meeting concluded with action points to be completed for the upcoming months.

Contact

Project Coordinator

Elisabetta Giuffra (INRAE)
elisabetta.giuffra@inrae.fr
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Project Manager

Camille Benard (INRAE Transfert)
camille.benard@inrae.fr

Communication & Dissemination

​Çağla Yüksel Kaya Kuyululu (EFFAB) 
cagla.kaya@effab.info