Source: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS submitted to NRP
UC DAVIS TRANSGENIC ANIMAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE VI
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0209993
Grant No.
2007-35205-17918
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
2006-04836
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Apr 15, 2007
Project End Date
Dec 31, 2007
Grant Year
2007
Program Code
[43.0]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
410 MRAK HALL
DAVIS,CA 95616-8671
Performing Department
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Non Technical Summary
The Transgenic Animal Research Conferences were established to provide a forum for workers involved with the production, study and application of non-murine transgenic animals (mammals, poultry and fish). There is no other conference that routinely covers transgenic uses of vertebrates while bringing together scientists from the agricultural, biomedical, and industrial arenas. The Transgenic Animal Research Conference provide a forum for workers involved with the production, study and application of non-murine transgenic animals from the cultural, biomedical and corporate arenas.
Animal Health Component
50%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
50%
Applied
50%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
30339101080100%
Goals / Objectives
The Transgenic Animal Research Conferences were established to provide a forum for workers involved with the production, study and application of non-murine transgenic animals, with a specific attempt to include work involving various techniques and applications. A specific is to bring together scientists working with mammals, birds and fish.
Project Methods
Transgenic Research Animal Conference VI will have 26 invited speakers and a small number (≈≈ 30 to 35) of submitted poster presentations. Speakers are drawn from the leading university, government and industry laboratories in the world working on non-murine transgenic vertebrate animals, including livestock, poultry, fish and non-human primates. While the initial conference was focused predominantly on agricultural applications of transgenic animals, the subsequent conferences have included pharmaceutical production, xenotransplantation, and other biomedical applications of transgenic large animals, birds and fish, as much of the available literature about, and advances in, the production of transgenic large animals and poultry are reported by groups using these animals for non-agricultural applications. For example, much of the work currently done on nuclear transfer-based cloning and transgenic livestock production is oriented towards non-agricultural applications as there is considerably higher levels of funding available, including direct corporate sponsorship and research. However, it is crucial for those scientists working to apply transgenics to animal agriculture to meet and share information with those scientists working towards industrial and biomedical applications. The conference will be limited to a maximum of 200 attendees, but the expectation is for approximately 150 to 160 scientists and regulators from Asia, Europe, New Zealand, Australia and North America to attend. The abstracts from the conference will be published in the journal Transgenic Research. The conference format is for there to be three or four speaker sessions per day. On Monday and Wednesday there will be two consecutive morning sessions and an evening session, with a two-hour poster session in the late afternoon. On Tuesday there are two morning and two afternoon sessions, with the evening free for a conference dinner.

Progress 04/15/07 to 12/31/07

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The UC Davis Transgenic Animal Research Conference VI, held in August 2007, brought together representatives from the leading laboratories doing cutting edge work on transgenic research in vertebrate animals, and those aspects of nuclear transfer-based cloning that support the production of transgenic animals. This meeting fulfills the need for a small, focused meeting to bring together scientist and regulators working with transgenic non-murine animals and related technologies such as nuclear transfer-based cloning, as the problems we share cross the boundaries of the species we work with. The 24 invited speakers were drawn from the leading university (18), government (1) and industry laboratories (5)in the world working on non-murine transgenic vertebrate animals, including livestock, poultry, and fish. Over 100 participants attended the conference, representing 11 different countries. Papers at this conference focused on the state-of-the-art of the science in the field of transgenic research. Presentations addressed cutting-edge methodology, such as the development of episomal vectors for the transformation of chicken embryos or technical improvements with sperm-mediated gene transfer. Several papers presented the current work with transgenic pigs, salmon, and goats with respect to the safety and efficacy of these animals for agricultural applications. While the presentations were generally excellent, perhaps the best from the last three conferences, the posters were also not to be missed. The oral presentations, posters, and discussions made this an enjoyable and informative meeting. PARTICIPANTS: UCD Transgenic Animal Research Conference VI TARGET AUDIENCES: Scientist and regulators. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: None

Impacts
The impact of a scientific conference is hard to judge in the short term, but the continual success of this meeting suggests that it does fill a need, both for scientific exchange and interaction between emerging work and regulatory agency officials. The continued attendance and now presentations by regulatory officials form the US and Canada would support this interpretation, as does the continual attendance of scientist from New Zealand, China, Korea, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Dubai, and the U.K.

Publications

  • The abstracts from this meeting were published in Transgenic Research (2007) 16:839-863.