Program

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Sunday 13th May 2018

We will be having a meet-and-greet session on Sunday evening from 19:00 at The Royal Dick (Summerhall), everybody is very welcome!

Monday 14th May 2018

08:30-09:15	Arrival/Registration
09:15-09:30	Welcome & Announcements
09:30-10:50	Session 1 - Chair: Catherine Andre Thomas Marchant - Detection and Characterisation of a Genetic Association with Norwich Terrier Upper Airway Syndrome Christopher Jenkins - Identification and characterisation of a mutation associated with cerebellar ataxia in the Norwegian Buhund dog breed Suvi Mäkeläinen - A novel form of retinal degeneration in Labrador retrievers Greg Markby - Ontogenic Transcriptomic Profiling Identifies Signalling Pathways Driving Pathogenesis in Canine Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-12:10	Session 2 - Chair: Tomas Bergstrom Naomi Harvey - Genetic and environmental risk factors for canine atopic dermatitis evaluated in a population of owned Labrador and Golden retrievers Maud Rimbault - Glioma in dogs: interest of spontaneous models for the genetics of human gliomas Rebekkah Hitti - Genetic analyses of Lhasa Apso dogs with progressive retinal atrophy identifies a LINE-1 insertion in the promoter region of a retinal candidate gene.
12:10-12:20	Housekeeping & Announcements
12:20-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Session 3 - Chair: Eleanor Raffan Juliane Friedrich - The association of environmental and genetic factors with behavioural traits in two popular purebred dog breeds Solenne Correard - A dog spontaneous model for human sensory neuropathies: Identification of a mutation in a regulatory region of GDNF and DNA screening in human patients. Rebekkah Hitti - Extensive whole genome sequencing comparisons in dogs elucidates a putative novel candidate gene for retinal degeneration.
14:30-15:00	Poster introductions (odd numbered posters)
15:00-16:00	Break & Poster session
16:00-17:00	Keynote: Rob Ogden - A talk on the wild side - applications of animal genetics in wildlife conservation
19:00	Conference Dinner (further details to follow)

Tuesday 15th May 2018

09:00-09:10	Announcements
09:10-10:30	Session 4 - Chair: Lucy Davison Joanna Ilska - Use of cross-country data for estimation of heritability of longevity and heart-related deaths in Doberman Pinscher Catherine Andre - Canine breed specific cancers as natural models for rare and/or aggressive human cancer types: examples of sarcomas, melanomas, lymphomas and gliomas. Louise Burmeister - Genetic investigation of oculoskeletal dysplasia in the Northern Inuit dog David Sargan - Genetic approaches to Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome in three canine breeds.
10:30-11:00	Poster introductions (even numbered posters)
11:00-12:00	Break & Poster session
12:00-13:00	Session 5 - Chair: Pam Wiener Carys Pugh - A mutation in Olfactomedin-like 3 (OLFML3) is a candidate for severe goniodysgenesis and glaucoma in Border Collies Julia Niskanen - A novel locus in chromosome 5 is associated with dilated cardiomyopathy in Doberman Pinschers Sally Ricketts - Association of primary open angle glaucoma ADAMTS17 mutations with height in two domestic dog breeds
13:00-13:30	Wrap Up & Lunch

Posters

Poster 1	Åke Hedhamma - Swedish actions to “handle” Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS) related health issues
Poster 2	Androniki Psifidi - Candidate genes for feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: analysis of 18 sarcomeric and non-sarcomeric genes
Poster 3	Anna Letko - Population structure of Leonberger dogs
Poster 4	Catherine Andre - Cani-DNA: a French National biobank of canine samples for dog/human compared biomedical research.
Poster 5	Celine le Beguec - Integrated genomic and transcriptomic analyses of long non-coding RNAs in dog as a model of human melanoma
Poster 6	Charlotte Wooley - Data cleaning; is it time to stop sweeping it under the carpet? An example from the Dogslife project.
Poster 7	Louise Burmeister - Give a Dog a Genome: generating a stake-holder funded bank of whole-genome sequences with which to elucidate benign and disease-associated variation within the canine genome
Poster 8	Katarina Hazuchova - Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the feline ACP1 gene are associated with diabetes mellitus in lean Domestic Shorthair cats
Poster 9	Riika Sarviaho - Regions associated with canine noise sensitivity and fear overlap human neuropsychiatric loci