Draft Program

Symposia and Oral Presentations Monday, August 18, 2014

Plenary Speaker – Monday Chairs: E. John Pollak, USDA, ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center and Filippo Miglior, Canadian Dairy Network and University of Guelph Bayshore Grand Ballroom

8:30 AM Plenary 1 Animal Breeding in the Next-Generation Sequencing Era. J. F. Taylor*, University of Missouri, Columbia

Bioinformatics: New Tools and Approaches Chair: Paul Stothard, University of Alberta Bayshore Grand Ballroom A

10:30 AM 157 SNPchiMp v.2: An Open Access Web Tool for SNP Data Management on Bovine, Porcine and Equine Livestock. E. L. Nicolazzi*1, N. Nazzicari1, A. Caprera1, I. Fojadelli1, F. Strozzi1, R. D. Schnabel2, C. Lawley3, A. Pirani4, F. Brew5, C. Soans3, H. Jorjani6, G. Evans7, B. Simpson8, J. L. Williams1 and A. Stella1,9, 1Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy, 2University of Missouri, Columbia, 3Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, 4Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, CA, 5Affymetrix UK Ltd., High Wycombe, United Kingdom, 6Interbull Centre, Uppsala, Sweden, 7GeneSeek, a Neogen Company, Auchincruive, Ayr, Scotland, 8GeneSeek, a Neogen Company, Lincoln, NE, 9IBBA CNR, Lodi, Italy

10:45 AM 158 Parallel Computing for Mixed Model Implementation of Genomic Prediction and Variance Component Estimation of Additive and Dominance Effects. C. Wang1, D. Prakapenka2, H. B. Runesha2 and Y. Da*1, 1Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, 2Research Computing Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

11:00 AM 159 A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Genomic Prediction using a Bayesian Model. T. Wang*1,2,3, Y. P. P. Chen4, M. E. Goddard5, T. H. E. Meuwissen6 and B. J. Hayes5, 1Biosciences Research Division, Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Australia, 2Dairy Futures Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 3Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 4Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, CA, Australia, 5The Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Bundoora, Australia, 6Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

11:15 AM 160 Selection of SNP Panels for Parentage Testing. C. Gondro*1, E. M. Strucken1, H. K. Lee2, K. D. Song2 and S. W. Lee3, 1University of New , Armidale, Australia, 2Hankyong National University, Anseong, South Korea, 3Hanwoo Experiment Station, NIAS, RDA, Pyeongchang, South Korea

11:30 AM 161 Long Haplotype Method for Detection of Maternal Grandsire and Sire of Maternal Granddam. J. B. van Kaam* and R. Finocchiaro, Anafi, Cremona, Italy

11:45 AM 162 QS@breeding – A Virtual Appliance for Quality Control in BLUP Genetic Evaluation. E. Groeneveld*1, U. Müller2, C. V. Truong1 and S. Krostitz2, 1Institute of Farm Animal Genetics (FLI), Mariensee, Germany, 2Saxon State Agency for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, Köllitsch, Germany

Breeding in Aquaculture Species – Salmonids Chair: Thomas Moen, AquaGen AS Cypress Room

10:30 AM 261 RNA-seq Analysis of Transcriptome Response to VHS-V Infection in Two Target Tissues of Resistant vs Susceptible Trout Clonal Lines. C. Genet*1, E. R. Verrier2, C. Ciobotaru1, C. Klopp3, D. Esquerre4, D. Laloe5, P. Boudinot6 and E. Quillet1, 1INRA UMR1313 GABI, Jouy en Josas, France, 2INSERM UMR1110, Strasbourg, France, 3INRA SIGENAE, Castanet Tolosan, France, 4INRA GENPHYSE, Castanet Tolosan, France, 5INRA UMR 1313 GABI, Jouy en Josas, France, 6INRA, UR 892 VIM, Jouy en Josas, France

10:45 AM 262 Genetic Variation in Resistance to Pancreas Disease in Atlantic Salmon. S. Gonen*1, A. Norris2, P. Arnesen2, S. C. Bishop1 and R. D. Houston1, 1The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom, 2Marine Harvest, Sandviksboder 78a, Bergen, Norway

11:00 AM 263 Development of a 200K SNP Array for Atlantic Salmon: Exploiting Across Continents Genetic Variation. J. M. Yáñez*1,2, S. Na