Transgenic Animal Research Conference

TARC XV

 

 

 

Conference Schedule


Agenda TARC XV, Confirmed speakers and Topics:

 

Sunday, August 10

2-5 pm

Registration, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe Resort

5:30

Get-acquainted Reception, Garden Deck

6:30 pm

Dinner, Garden deck

Monday, August 11

7:00-8:00 am Breakfast – Granhall (each morning Monday-Thursday)

All PLENARY SESSIONS IN MOUNTAIN/ LAKE ROOM

8:00 am

Welcome - Elizabeth Maga, University of California, Davis

SESSION 1   Technology, Session Chair   

8:10 am

Simon Lillico, Roslin Institute, UK

Opening Talk: Setting the Stage

8:40

Tae Hyun Kim, Penn State University, USA

 CRISPRa and CRISPRi

9:10

Ali Shariati, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Epigenome editing tools and embryo models

9:40

Kyle Fink, University of California, Davis, USA

Prime editing and tool development

10:10-10:40 am

Tea/Coffee Break, Mountain Deck

SESSION 2   Technology, Session Chair:

10:40

Pablo Bermejo-Alvarez, INIA, Spain

Cytosine base editing 

11:10

Kiho Lee, University of Missouri, USA

Increasing editing efficiency and reducing off-targets     

11:40

Beth Shapiro, Colossal Biosciences, USA

Multiple edits to achieve a phenotype - Dire wolf project

12:10-1:40 pm

Lunch, Garden Deck; Free Time until 4:00 PM

SESSION 3   Technology Session chair

1:40 pm

Sergiy Velychko, Harvard University, USA

Naïve stem cells

2:10

Dan Carlson, Recombinetics, USA

Editing and cloning of Embryonic Stem Cells

2:40 

Muren Herrid, Livestock Research Centre, Australia     

Application of Handmade Cloning Technologies to Livestock Breeding Programs

3:10-3:40 pm

Tea/Coffee Break-Mountain Deck

SESSION 4   Technology Session chair

3:40 

Ina Dobrinski, University of Calgary, Canada

Germ cell transplantation/differentiation

4:10 

Jun Wu, University of Texas Southwestern, USA

Farm animal organoids

5:30 pm

No-host bar – Garden Deck

6:30 pm

Dinner – Garden Deck

 

Tuesday, August 12

7:00- 8:00 am Breakfast,Granhall


ALL PLENARY SESSIONS IN MOUNTAIN/ LAKE ROOM

SESSION 5   Applications    Session Chair

8:00 am

Trish Berger, UC Davis, USA

Gene editing of pigs to remove boar taint

8:30

Simon Lillico, Roslin Institute, UK

CSFV resistant pigs 

9:00

Christine Tait-Burkhard, Roslin Institute, UK

ACE2 transgenic pigs

9:30

Sabreena Larson, Acceligen, USA

Commercial applications under Recombinetics umbrella

10:00-10:30 am

Tea/Coffee Break, Mountain deck

SESSION 6   Applications    Session Chair

10:30

John Buchanan, Center for Aquaculture Technology, USA

Scaling edits to industry

11:00

Clint Nesbitt, PIC, USA

PRRS pig – scaling to industry and plans for commercialization

11:30

Mark Tizard, CSIRO, Australia

Sex sorting in layers

12:00 pm

Poster Pitches

12:30-4:00 pm

Lunch/Free Time – Garden Deck

4:00-5:30

POSTER SESSION - Pavilion

5:00

No-host bar - Pavilion

6:00 pm

Dinner – Garden Deck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 7   Editing for Species Conservation/De-extinction Session Chair:

8:00-8:45

Mark James, Colossal Biosciences, USA

Conservation Applications

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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 13

7:00-8:00 am Breakfast - Granhall


ALL PLENARY SESSIONS IN MOUNTAIN/ LAKE ROOM

SESSION 8   Editing for Biocontrol and Regulations Overview    Session Chair

8:00-8:30 am

Michael Clark, Macquarie University, Australia

Biocontrol of cane toads

8:30-8:30 am

Sam Beach, Macquarie University, Australia

Biocontrol of insects

9:00-10:00 am

Dianne Wray-Cahen, USDA

Overview of global regulations of gene edited animals for agricultural and other purposes

10:00-10:30

Tea/Coffee Break, Mountain deck

SESSION 9   National Regulatory Deliberations and Impact on Academic

10:30

Michele Ardizzone, EFSA

European GMO Panel on new developments in animal biotechnology

11:00

Elizabeth Maga, UC Davis

NAS report on Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, and FDA AVIC

11:30

Jon Oatley

Academic regulatory experience of working with gene edited livestock

12:00- 1:30 pm

Lunch, Garden deck

SESSION 10   Regulations on the Ground    Session Chair:

1:30-2:00

Clint Nesbitt, PIC, USA

Experience bringing PRRS pigs through regulatory in different countries

 2:00:2:30

Sabreena Larson, Acceligen, USA

Experience bringing gene edited cattle through regulatory in different countries

 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?

3:10-3:40

Tea/Coffee Break – Mountain Deck

SESSION 11

3:40 pm

Alison Van Eenennaam, University of California, Davis, USA

Closing talk – History of TARC, and summary of TARC XV

4:30-5:00

General Discussion

5:30 pm

Hosted Hospitality Bar

6:30 pm

Dinner – Gran Hall

Thursday, August 14

7:00-8:00 am Breakfast – Granhall

8:00 am – ongoing  Shuttles depart for Reno, Sacramento and Davis