First Annual General Meeting of GENE-SWitCH

29/07/2020

On July 8-9, GENE-SWitCH held its first Annual Meeting by videoconference, with mornings dedicated to general presentations on project progress by Work Package (WP) and Pillar leaders. The afternoons were dedicated to workshops on specific topics.
 
Stakeholder Advisory Board recommendations
One most interesting aspect of this Annual Meeting was to meet for the first time “in person” (albeit virtually) with some of our Stakeholder Advisory Board members. We received from them very interesting suggestions and useful remarks. Among them, it was recognized that the strong interconnections between Pillars and WPs is a strength of this project, with the recommendation to not underestimate the time and skills required to exploit it at its full potential.
 
They also recommended to disseminate our findings as efficiently as possible, as these are inherently relevant to sustainable development and global changes regarding climate and environment. Moreover, the planned actions to contribute to the education of the younger generation of scientists in the public and livestock industry sectors are of particular relevance.
 
Strength in numbers
The clustering with the other EU and international FAANG projects, with the recent establishment of the EUROFAANG node, offers an important change of scale for dissemination and outreach, and as such, a strong opportunity to inspire the public at large about the genomics of FAANG.
 
In conclusion, we had a nice and productive meeting. The project has been advanced well in its initial year, and we expect the first consolidated results about a year from now. Despite the recent activities being coordinated remotely, our Consortium appears to be well connected, and, until now, we encountered only limited delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

GENE-SWitCH's brochure online

30/06/2020

We are pleased to announce the first GENE-SWitCH brochure is now available on our website! The introductory brochure of the GENE-SWitCH project provides compact information on the project aim, structure, partners, expected outputs and impact.

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.

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.

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

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