FAANG WORKSHOP: PLANT AND ANIMAL GENOME CONFERENCE XXIV

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: AFRI COMPETITIVE GRANT
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 1008423
• Grant No.: 2016-67015-24579
• Cumulative Award Amt.: $17,500.00
• Proposal No.: 2015-07164
• Project Start Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Project End Date: Dec 31, 2016
• Grant Year: 2016
• Program Code: [A1201]- Animal Health and Production and Animal Products: Animal Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics

Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
410 MRAK HALL
DAVIS,CA 95616-8671

Performing Department
Animal Science

Non Technical Summary
This proposal seeks support for the FAANG Workshop that will be first held in San Diego, California jointly with Plant & Animal Genome Conference XXIV on January 9-13, 2016. The new workshop was approved via a competitive application to the PAG Organizating Committee. The main goals of the Workshop are to: 1) promote information exchanges regarding recent FAANG efforts worldwide, 2) provide a great forum for the FAANG community to communicate and foster the interactions and collaborations. A uniqueness of this conference is that it is always held jointly with other genomic and bioinformatics workshops and livestock Multi-State Research Projects. A major strength of the joint meeting is its multi-species and comparative biology basis so researchers can learn and share the new technology and tools among species. Especially, this meeting will bring many international scientists in animal genomics and discuss how to develop new assay and bioinformatics tools that meet the need for the FAANG initiative and share genomic resources. Such information sharing among delegates from the world will provide opportunities for the international exchange of technology, data and cooperation and increase the visibility of U.S. genome research throughout the world. Finally, this proposed proposal will provide support for next generation scientists such as graduate students and postdoctoral fellow to have opportunities to interact and gain novel knowledge and technology from peer scientists from the meeting. This conference proposal fits well with the priority areas in Tools and Resources-Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics

Animal Health Component

(N/A)

Research Effort Categories

Basic

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Applied

(N/A)

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
304	3910	1080	100%

Knowledge Area
304 - Animal Genome;

Subject Of Investigation
3910 - Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species;

Field Of Science
1080 - Genetics;

Keywords

annotation

faang

genomics

livestock

regulatory elements

Goals / Objectives
The main goals of the Workshop are to: 1) promote information exchanges regarding recent FAANG efforts worldwide, 2) provide a great forum for the FAANG community to communicate and foster the interactions and collaborations.

Project Methods
Chair of the workshop will closely work with organizing committee to plan and host the workshop and select awardees for the travel support for the grant.

Progress 01/01/16 to 12/31/16

Outputs
Target Audience:graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, scientists in academic and industry including biotechnology and animal breeding. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The fund supported 18 graduate students and postdocs working on animal genetics and genomics in attending the FAANG workshop and epigenetics workshop during the PAG meeting. This provides unique opportunity for them to present and interact with other peer scientists. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Nothing Reported What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? FAANG workshop has been successfully held in San Diego, along with the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIV with 186 participants from more than 20 different countries worldwide. Major theme of the workshop was to how to develop new core epigenomic assays and bioinformatic pipelines for FAANG community.

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