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.
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