Programme Day 1 - Tuesday 7th March Session 1 - Chair: Professor Simone Meddle Time (GMT) Presenter Affiliation Title 1:00pm Mark Emerson The City College of New York, City University of New York, USA Keynote: Illumination of chick photoreceptor formation through cis-regulation 1:30pm Hyungwook Kang University of Edinburgh and SRUC, UK Using a live vaccine as a model for respiratory disease in hens: inducing clinical symptoms 1:45pm Fiona A Sargison Oxford University, UK Genome-scale identification of Staphylococcus aureus determinants of avian host interactions 2:00pm Andrew Mason University of York, UK Avian Leukosis Virus subgroup K originated from a globally widespread endogenous retrovirus 2:15pm Mekhla Rudra Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany Testosterone-dependent androgen receptor signaling in socio-sexual and vocal behaviours of domestic chicken 2:20pm Matthew J Craven Newcastle University, UK Does complexity of aviary design affect hippocampal plasticity in laying hens? 2:25pm Sarah Struthers The Roslin Institute, UK Determining the optimal beak morphology for reducing damage related to feather pecking in commercial laying hens 2:30pm Emma Armstrong The Roslin Institute, UK The immunological mechanisms of in ovo vaccination Break Session 2 - Chair: Dr Kate Sutton Time (GMT) Presenter Affiliation Title 3:00pm Niki Vontzou University of East Anglia, UK Interrogating the function of the avian germline-restricted chromosome 3:15pm Ramya Ranganathan King's College London, UK Identification of novel candidates for BOR syndrome 3:30pm Wan Chen Moredun Research Institute, UK A gene knockdown approach to the control of the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae 3:45pm Vincent Saint-Martin INRAE, Nouzilly, France Uncovering the core principles of the gut lung-axis to understand microbiota-mucosal immunity relationships in the chicken 4:00pm Teresa Requena The Roslin Institute, UK Netrin-1 gene-edited chicken lines: a new genetic toolkit to understand tissue fusion development 4:15pm Gauthier Toulouse Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, NeuroMyoGene Institute, France Evo-devo of epaxial musculature 4:30- 4:45pm Break 4:45-5:30pm Networking sessions Day 2 - Wednesday 8th March Session 3 - Chair: Dr Jacqueline Smith Time (GMT) Presenter Affiliation Title 1:00pm Paul Wigley The University of Bristol, UK Keynote: Welcome to the jungle (fowl): the complex relationship between foodborne bacterial pathogens and the intestinal microbiome of the chicken and how we can exploit this 1:30pm Maëva Luxey University of Basel, Switzerland Development, plasticity and evolution of the neuromuscular system in tetrapod limbs 1:45pm Emőke Szőcs Semmelweis University, Hungary Detailed characterization of developing bursa of Fabricius reveals a novel lymphoid follicle inducer cell type 2:00pm Jim Kaufman University of Edinburgh, UK 600 alleles and 200 haplotypes identified for the chicken MHC 2:15pm Dominika Borowska The Roslin Institute, UK Broiler and layer enteroids single-cell transcriptomic atlas 2:20pm Talk cancelled 2:25pm Karina Santiago Gonzalez Newcastle University, UK Hippocampal immediate-early gene induction and HPA-axis activation in response to acute stress in chickens 2:30pm Alexandre Thiery King’s College London, UK A gradient border model for cell fate decisions at the neural plate border Break Session 4 - Chair: Dr Rute Pinto Time (GMT) Presenter Affiliation Title 3:00pm Celeste Nelson Princeton University, USA How to breathe like a bird? An evo/devo analysis of the lung 3:15pm Tom Smulders Newcastle University, UK Desynchronization of local brain waves during high alertness situations in broiler chickens 3:30pm Ádám Soós Semmelweis University, Hungary Tenascin-c regulates b-cell migration in developing avian bursa of fabricius 3:45pm Brian Ferguson University of Cambridge, UK Innate immune sensing of DNA and DNA viruses in chickens 4:00pm Fiona Murphy University of Strathclyde, UK Evaluating the chick Chorioallantoic Membrane (CAM) model for hazard assessment of High Aspect Ratio Nanomaterials 4:15pm Alexandra K. Eicher Harvard University, USA Cellular migration and control of vertebrate embryo axis elongation 4:30- 4:45pm Break 4:45-5:30pm Networking sessions Day 3 - Thursday 9th March Session 5 - Chair: Dr Joe Rainger Time (GMT) Presenter Affiliation Title 1:00pm Jacqueline Smith The Roslin Institute, UK Keynote: The avian genome: the current state of play 1:30pm Md Ataul Goni Rabbani The Roslin Institute, UK Application of genome-wide molecular approaches to understand genetic makeup (economic traits) of native chicken in Bangladesh 1:45pm Kate Sutton The Roslin Institute, UK Differential innate immune responses of chicken 3d and 2d enteroids to salmonella typhimurium infection 2:00pm Brian Ho Ching Chan The Roslin Institute, UK Mind the Gap – Delineating the gene regulatory networks of optic fissure closure 2:15pm Katalin Foldes The Pirbright Institute, UK Disruption of the s2m RNA structure in the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus results in reduced clinical disease during in vivo infection 2:20pm Vedant Chaure Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), India Cross talk between signalling and glycolytic gene gradients during the chicken embryonic limb development 2:25pm Sarah E Barnett University of Liverpool, UK Chick embryo xenografts: a cost and time efficient 3Rs models for drug target evaluation in malignant pleural mesothelioma 2:30pm Eva Hamrud King's College London, UK Investigating cell fate decisions at the neural plate border Break Session 6 - Chair: Dr Megan Davey Time (GMT) Presenter Affiliation Title 3:00pm Thu-Dung (Daisy) Doan National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Signal sequence contributes to the immunogenicity of Pasteurella multocida lipoprotein E 3:15pm Izel Cohen Volcani Center/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Rescuing the scaleless chicken phenotype: repairing of FGF20 mutation through gene editing 3:30pm Maisarah B. M. Maidin The Roslin Institute, UK Heritability and genetic correlation of keel bone morphometric phenotypes and injury grading in laying hens 3:45pm Dalit Sela-Donenfeld The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Isreal Hindbrain boundaries-niches of neural progenitors/stem cells in the developing chick embryo 4:00pm Viktória Halasy Semmelweis University, Hungary CXCR4-CXCL12 signalling regulates development of extrinsic innervation to the colorectum 4:15pm Hsiu-Lien Herbie Lin INRAE, Nouzilly, France Impacts of glycerol on sperm fertilizing ability in chickens 4:30- 4:45pm Break 4:45-5:30pm Networking sessions This article was published on 2024-09-02
