Lunch Symposia
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
12:15 – 1:00 pm
Hall 3
Shaping the future of Animal Genomic Breeding – Lunch Symposium Illumina
With the development of high throughput genomic tools, whole genome sequencing efforts have enabled a rapid increase in the amount of data available on the genome of livestock species. In addition to their usefulness to better describe genomic structures and functions, new technologies, such as high throughput sequencing and high-quality solutions for interrogating genetic variation in livestock populations, are in fact revolutionizing animal research and breeding; quantitative trait loci can now be mapped in genome wide scans by exploiting Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) and selection decisions will now be based on genomic information, associated with considerable phenotypic information, offering a more cost-effective selection schema.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
12:15 – 1:00 pm
Hall 3
Real-Time PCR for genotyping and gene expression applications – Lunch Symposium Applied Biosystems GmbH
The OpenArray® Real-Time PCR Platform accelerates genomic validation and screening, enabling unprecedented gene coverage and sample throughput. It enables gene expression profiling and expression-based biomarker screens (<30,000 gene expression data points per day), and high sample throughput genotyping (<70,000 genotypes per day). This system is ideal for validating complex disease associations, marker-assisted breeding, broad animal tracking or other studies requiring large sample sizes. Combining the parallelism of microarrays with the data quality of solution-phase reactions such as PCR, the self-metering nanofluidic design of the OpenArray® Plate uses only 33 nL of reaction volume per data point, which extracts more reactions per TaqMan® or SYBR® Assay synthesis.
