Conference Schedule
Agenda TARC XV, Confirmed speakers and Topics:
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Sunday, August 10 |
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2-5 pm |
Registration, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe Resort |
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5:30 |
Get-acquainted Reception, Garden Deck |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner, Garden deck |
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Monday, August 11 |
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7:00-8:00 am Breakfast – Granhall (each morning Monday-Thursday) |
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All PLENARY SESSIONS IN MOUNTAIN/ LAKE ROOM |
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8:00 am |
Welcome - Elizabeth Maga, University of California, Davis |
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SESSION 1 Technology, Session Chair: Simon Lillico |
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8:10 am |
Simon Lillico, Roslin Institute, UK Opening Talk: Setting the Stage |
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8:40 |
Tae Hyun Kim, Penn State University, USA CRISPR-Based In Vitro Platform for Chicken Functional Genomics |
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Ali Shariati, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Programmable Embryo Models: A CRISPR-Based Approach to Model Embryogenesis |
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9:40 |
Kyle Fink, University of California, Davis, USA Prime editing and tool development |
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10:10-10:40 am |
Tea/Coffee Break, Mountain Deck |
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SESSION 2 Technology, Session Chair: Maciej Maselko |
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10:40 |
Pablo Bermejo-Alvarez, INIA, Spain Cytosine base editing for highly efficient direct KO generation |
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11:10 |
Kiho Lee, University of Missouri, USA Strategies to enhance the specificity of Cas9-mediated genome editing outcomes |
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11:40 |
Beth Shapiro, Colossal Biosciences, USA Multiple edits to achieve a phenotype - Dire wolf project |
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12:10-1:40 pm |
Lunch, Garden Deck; Free Time until 4:00 PM |
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SESSION 3 Technology Session chair: Ramon Botigelli |
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1:40 pm |
Sergiy Velychko, Harvard University, USA Highly Cooperative Chimeric Super-Sox Induces Naïve Pluripotency Across Species |
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2:10 |
Dan Carlson, Recombinetics, USA Advancing Bovine Genome Engineering: Efficient Multiplex Gene Editing in Embryonic Stem Cells Followed by SCNT |
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2:40 |
Muren Herrid, International Livestock Research Centre, Australia Application of Handmade Cloning Technologies to Livestock Breeding Programs |
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3:10-3:40 pm |
Tea/Coffee Break-Mountain Deck |
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SESSION 4 Technology Session chair: Nick Werry |
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3:40 |
Ina Dobrinski, University of Calgary, Canada Germ Cell Transplantation in Large Animals |
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Rafael V. Sampaio, Colossal Biosciences Inc., USA Androgenetic and parthenogenetic haploid embryos and embryonic stem cells to produce offspring with predetermined parental genomes in cattle |
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4:40 |
Jun Wu, University of Texas Southwestern, USA Farm animal organoids |
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5:30 pm |
No-host bar – Garden Deck |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner – Garden Deck |
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Tuesday, August 12 |
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7:00- 8:00 am Breakfast,Granhall ALL PLENARY SESSIONS IN MOUNTAIN/ LAKE ROOM |
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SESSION 5 Applications Session Chair: Kristin Whitworth |
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8:00 am |
Trish Berger, UC Davis, USA Gene editing of pigs to remove boar taint |
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8:30 |
Simon Lillico, Roslin Institute, UK Editing livestock for pestivirus resistance |
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9:00 |
Christine Tait-Burkhard, Roslin Institute, UK ACE2 transgenic pigs |
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9:30 |
Sabreena Larson, Acceligen, USA Commercial applications under Recombinetics umbrella |
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10:00-10:30 am |
Tea/Coffee Break, Mountain deck |
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SESSION 6 Applications Session Chair: Kevin Wells |
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10:30 |
John Buchanan, Center for Aquaculture Technology, USA Scaling edits to industry |
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11:00 |
Clint Nesbitt, PIC, USA PRRS resistant pigs – Transitioning from regulatory approvals to commercial production |
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11:30 |
Mark Tizard, CSIRO, Australia Path to impact for marker assisted sex sorting in the egg layer industry |
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12:00 pm |
Poster Pitches |
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12:30-4:00 pm |
Lunch/Free Time – Garden Deck |
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4:00-5:30 |
POSTER SESSION - Pavilion |
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5:00 |
No-host bar - Pavilion |
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6:00 pm |
Dinner – Garden Deck |
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SESSION 7 Editing for Species Conservation/De-extinction Session Chair: Bruce Whitelaw |
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8:00-8:45 |
Matt James, Colossal Biosciences, USA Conservation Applications |
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8:45-9:30 |
Fireside Chat – Beth Shapiro and Alison Van Eenennaam How can the conservation community and the food animal editing community synergize and support each other? |
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Wednesday, August 13 |
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7:00-8:00 am Breakfast - Granhall ALL PLENARY SESSIONS IN MOUNTAIN/ LAKE ROOM |
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SESSION 8 Editing for Biocontrol and Regulations Overview Session Chair: Jim Murray |
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8:00-8:30 am |
Michael Clark, Macquarie University, Australia Gene Knockouts to Allele Sails: the Path Towards Invasive Species Control |
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8:30-9:00 am |
Sam Beach, Macquarie University, Australia Intragenerational Biocontrol of Mosquitoes by Recombinant Venom Expression in Seminal Fluid |
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9:00-10:00 am |
Diane Wray-Cahen Overview of global regulations of gene edited animals for agricultural and other purposes |
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10:00-10:30 |
Tea/Coffee Break, Mountain deck |
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SESSION 9 National Regulatory Deliberations and Impact on Academic Session chair: Mark Tizard |
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10:30 |
Michele Ardizzone, EFSA European GMO Panel on new developments in animal biotechnology |
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11:00 |
Elizabeth Maga, UC Davis NAS report on Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, and FDA AVIC |
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11:30 |
Jon Oatley Academic regulatory experience of working with gene edited livestock |
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12:00- 1:30 pm |
Lunch, Garden deck |
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SESSION 10 Regulations on the Ground Session Chair: Mark Walton |
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1:30-2:00 |
Clint Nesbitt, PIC, USA Experience bringing PRRS pigs through regulatory in different countries |
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2:00:2:30 |
Sabreena Larson, Acceligen, USA Experience bringing gene edited cattle through regulatory in different countries |
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2:30-3:10 |
Panel Discussion – John Buchanan (Fish), Clint Nesbitt (Pigs), Jon Oatley (Ungulates), Sabreena Larson (Cattle), Mark Tizard (Chicken) Given your experiences how would you design an optimal regulatory approach for biotech animals or what would you change and why? |
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3:10-3:40 |
Tea/Coffee Break – Mountain Deck |
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SESSION 11 |
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3:40 pm |
Alison Van Eenennaam, University of California, Davis, USA Closing talk – History of TARC, and summary of TARC XV |
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4:30-5:00 |
General Discussion |
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5:30 pm |
Hosted Hospitality Bar |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner – Gran Hall |
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Thursday, August 14 |
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7:00-8:00 am Breakfast – Granhall |
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8:00 am – ongoing Shuttles depart for Reno, Sacramento and Davis |
