The 37th International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) Conference 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, meet old friends and form new partnerships.
At the ISAG conference, Elisabetta Giuffra from INRA presented "Introduction to FAANG (Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes"-Goals and Opportunities". Giuffra mentioned about the Data Coordination Centre and FAANG Data Portal. She presented 3 projects of the FAANG consortium, BovReg, AQUA-FAANG and GENE-SWitCH. Her presentation covered the overall objective, concept and the consortium of GENE-SWitCH, which can be found here. GENE-SWitCH project has started!21/10/2019"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. GENE-SWitCH project has started!The Kick-off Meeting of GENE-SWitCH will take place on September 10-11, 2019 in Paris, France!
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