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The 3rd International Conference on Quantitative Genetics

Conference Hall: Sir Run Run Shaw Science Building at Yu-Quan Campus,Zhejiang University

There will be no parallel sessions and each day (except Wednesday) will have four 90-minute sessions, each with a mixture of invited papers (35 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions, marked *) and contributed papers (12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions). There will be a total of 23 invited and 27 contributed speakers. The contributed speakers are selected from those submited abstracts, with special recognition to a student with the best contributed abstract. All other submitted contributions will be presented in poster sessions on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. There will be only morning session on Wednesday August 22 to allow delegates to have tours to local scientific and cultural sites and to attend an evening cultural concert.


Sunday, August 19
Registration and Reception for International Participants at Dragon Hotel

All day Registration

6:00pm-8:00pm            Dinner at Dragon Hotel

8:00pm-9:30pm            Welcome Reception

Workshop for Chinese Participants at the Conference Hall

9:00am-12:00am          Lecture 1: Population Genetic Data Analysis

                                    Speaker: Bruce S. Weir [Slides in PDF] [Video]

12:00pm-1:00pm          Lunch Break

1:00pm-3:00pm            Lecture 2: QTL Mapping

                                     Speaker: Zhao-Bang Zeng [Slides in PDF] [Video]

3:00pm-3:30pm            Coffee Break

3:30pm-5:30pm            Lecture 3: Association Mapping

                                    Speaker: Lon Cardon [Slides in PDF] [Video]

6:00pm-8:00pm            Dinner

8:00pm-9:30pm            Welcome Reception (at Conference Hall of Dragon Hotel)[Video]

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Monday, August 20
Morning Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Jun Zhu

8:45am-8:55am            University President: Welcome Speech [Video]

8:55am-9:15am            William G. Hill: Opening remarks [Video]

9:15am-10:00am          Bruce Walsh*: Quantitative Genetics, version 3.0: Where have
                                     we gone since 1987 (last congress) and where are we headed?

                                     [Slides in PDF] [Video]

10:00am-10:15am        Johannes Kettunen: A functional variant in col11a1 is
                                    associated to human stature
[Slides in PDF]

10:15am-10:30am        Group Picture

10:30am-11:00am        Coffee Break

11:00am-11:45am        Jean-Luc Jannink*: Design and analysis for QTL detection in
                                     plant populations
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

11:45am-12:00pm        Ken Dodds: Using genetic markers in unpedigreed populations
                                    to detect a heritable trait
[Slides in PDF]

12:00pm-12:15pm        Hiroyoshi Iwata: Bayesian multilocus association mapping on
                                     ordinal and censored traits and its application to the analysis of
                                     genetic variation among Oryza sativa L. germplasms
[Slides in
                                    PDF]

12:15pm-1:15pm          Lunch Break

Afternoon Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Bruce S. Weir

1:15pm-2:00pm            Pak Sham*: Application of genome-wide SNP data for
                                    uncovering pairwise relationships and quantitative trait loci
 
                                    [Slides in PDF] [Video]

2:00pm-2:45m              Ning Li*: Genomics in quantitative genetic analysis [Slides in
                                    PDF] [Video]

2:45pm-3:00pm            Gen-Hua Yue: Integration of quantitative genetics and
                                    genomics: a promise for genetic improvement in marine
                                    aquaculture
[Slides in PDF]

3:00pm-3:30pm            Coffee Break

3:30pm-4:15pm            Michael Goddard*: Genomic selection [Slides in PDF] [Video]

4:15pm-4:30pm            Arunas Verbyla: Whole genome QTL analysis [Slides in PDF]

4:30pm-4:45pm            Bruce Tier: Genome wide selection: experiences from the
                                    Australian Dairy Industry
[Slides in PDF]

4:45pm-5:00pm            Xiang Dong Ding: Haplotype reconstruction for grand
                                    (daughter) design using EM algorithm joint with rule-based
                                    method
[Slides in PDF]

6:00pm-9:30pm            Dinner and tea at Lei-Feng pavilion for all participants and
                                    accompanying persons

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Tuesday, August 21
Morning Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Jun-Yi Gai

8:45am-9:30am            Eric Schadt*: Reconstructing genetic networks to identify
                                    subtypes of disease and key regulators of disease and their
                                    associated network components
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

9:30am-9:45am           Chao-Qiang Lai: Regulatory variation, genotype and
                                    environment interaction and the risk of human age-related
                                    diseases
[Slides in PDF]

9:45am-10:00am          Lan Zhu: Fibrillin 2: A novel risk locus associated with canine
                                     hip dysplasia
[Slides in PDF]

10:00am-10:30am        Coffee Break

10:30am-11:15am        Edward Buckler*: Dissection of complex traits in maize [Slides
                                    in PDF] [Video]

11:15am-12:00pm        Qi-Fa Zhang*: Genetic basis of heterosis in crop plants [Slides
                                     in PDF] [Video]

12:00pm-1:00pm          Lunch Break

Afternoon Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Henner Simianer

1:00pm-1:45pm            Mark Kirkpatrick*: Evolutionary quantitative genetics [Slides in
                                    PDF] [Video]

1:45pm-2:30pm            Hamish Spencer*: Effects of genomic imprinting on quantitative
                                    traits
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

2:30pm-3:00pm           Coffee Break

3:00pm-3:45pm            Zhao-Bang Zeng*: Statistical issues of gene expression QTL
                                    analysis
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

3:45pm-4:00pm            Hui-Hui Li: Inclusive Composite Interval Mapping of Quantitative                                      Trait Genes [Slides in PDF]

4:00pm-4:15pm            Peter Baker: Estimating marker dosage and allowing for spatial                                     variability in mapping sugarcane QTL [Slides in PDF]

4:15pm-4:30pm            Sang-Hong Lee: Fine mapping of multiple interacting
                                    quantitative trait loci using combined linkage disequilibrium and
                                    linkage information
[Slides in PDF]

4:30pm-6:00pm            Poster Session A

6:30pm-9:30pm            Visit and dinner at He-Fang Street for international participants
                                    and accompanying persons

6:00pm-7:00pm            Dinner at Shaw Science Building for Chinese participants

7:00pm-9:30pm            Presentation and discussion for Chinese participants

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Wednesday, August 22
Morning Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Albrecht Melchinger

8:45am-9:30am            Trudy Mackay*: The genetic architecture of complex
                                     behaviours: Lessons from Drosophila
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

9:30am-9:45am            Rami Sawalha: Association of PrP gene with neonatal lamb
                                    survival
[Slides in PDF]

9:45am-10:00am          Ming D. Li: Searching QTLs and genes for nicotine
                                    dependence using a combined linkage and association analysis
                                    approach
[Slides in PDF]

10:00am-10:30am        Coffee Break

10:30am-11:15am        Frederic Hospital*: Challenges for effective marker assisted
                                    selection in plants
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

11:15am-12:00pm       Yuan-Ming Zhang*: Methodologies for segregation analysis
                                    and QTL mapping in plants
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

12:00pm-1:00pm          Lunch Break

1:00pm-2:00pm            Back to Hotel

2:00pm-4:00pm           Tour Zi-Jin-Gang Campus of Zhejiang University for all
                                    participants and accompanying persons

4:00pm-5:00pm            Cultural tours in the West Lake for all participants

5:00pm-9:00pm            Leave the West Lake for Song-Cheng Park and cultural
                                    concerts for international participants and accompanying
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Thursday, August 23
Morning Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: William G. Hill

8:45am-9:30am            Andrew Clark*: Evolutionary quantitative genetics of gene
                                     regulatory networks
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

9:30am-9:45am            Jerome Goudet: Factors influencing the FST/QST contrast
                                    under neutrality and selection
[Slides in PDF]

9:45am-10:00am         Xiang-Yang Lou: GMDR: a novel strategy for detecting
                                    multifactor interactions
[Slides in PDF]

10:00am-10:30am        Coffee Break

10:30am-11:15am       Daniel Sorensen*: Developments in statistical analysis in  
                                    quantitative genetics
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

11:15am-12:00pm        Qin Zhang*: QTL mapping in animals [Slides in PDF] [Video]

12:00pm-1:00pm         Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Daniel Gianola

1:00pm-1:45pm            Laura Almasy*: Linkage analysis for quantitative traits using
                                    whole genome data
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

1:45pm-2:00pm            Xi-Jiang Yu: Fast power calculation for QTL linkage analysis in
                                    arbitrary pedigrees
[Slides in PDF]

2:00pm-2:15pm            Wen-Hua Wei: Mapping epistatic QTL in structured outbred
                                    crosses – a comprehensive algorithm and its application
[Slides
                                    in PDF]

2:15pm-2:30pm            Luis Varona: Bayesian analysis for the genetic determinism of
                                    robustness using skew distributions
[Slides in PDF]

2:30pm-3:00pm            Coffee Break

3:00pm-3:45pm            Leif Andersson*: Genes for quantitative traits in domestic
                                    animals
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

3:45pm-4:00pm            Zhuo-Cheng Hou: Adaptive Evolution in the Chicken Genome
                                     [Slides in PDF]

4:00pm-4:15pm            Christoph Lange: A generalization of the FBAT-approach to
                                    copy number variation and an application to a copy-number
                                    genome-wide association study for asthma
[Slides in PDF]

4:15pm-4:30pm            Armin Schmitt: Long chromosomal deletions in fifteen inbred
                                    mouse lines and their implications for quantitative traits
[Slides in                                     PDF]

4:30pm-6:00pm            Poster Session B

6:30pm-9:30pm            Dinner and shopping at Hangzhou Baida Tower for international
                                    participants and accompanying persons

6:00pm-7:00pm            Dinner at Shaw Science Building for Chinese participants

7:00pm-9:30pm            Presentation and discussion for Chinese participants

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Friday, August 24
Morning Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Chang-Xin Wu

8:45am-9:30am            Peter Visscher*: Utilisation of whole genome mapping to
                                     partition genetic variation
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

9:30am-9:45am            Jon Hallander: Simulation of the effect of different ways of
                                    using pedigree information in a breeding population on genetic
                                    parameters using both finite and infinite locus models
[Slides in
                                    PDF]

9:45am-10:00am          Steven Maenhout: Support Vector Machine Regression for 
                                     hybrid maize prediction
[Slides in PDF]

10:00am-10:30am        Coffee Break

10:30am-11:15am        Peter Keightley*: Analysis and implications of mutational
                                    variation
[Slides in PDF] [Video]

11:15am-11:30am        Timo Knürr: Strength of selection and its impact on adaptive
                                     variation in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)
[Slides in PDF]

11:30am-11:45am        Dirk Hinrichs: Analysis of inbreeding depression in the first
                                    litter size of mice in a long – term selection experiment with
                                    respect to the age of the inbreeding
[Slides in PDF]

11:45am-12:00pm        Guosheng Su: Estimation of heterosis by environment
                                    interaction using a reaction norm model with unknown
                                    environmental covariates
[Slides in PDF]

12:00pm-1:00pm         Lunch Break

Afternoon Session at the Conference Hall

Chair: Zhao-Bang Zeng

1:00pm-1:45pm            Lon Cardon*: Association mapping of quantitative traits [Slides
                                     in PDF] [Video]

1:45pm-2:30pm            Jun Zhu*: Mixed model methods for analyzing complex traits
                                    [Slides in PDF] [Video]

2:30pm-3:00pm            Bruce S. Weir*: Closing remarks [Slides in PDF] [Video]

3:00pm                         End of the scientific session

3:15pm-3:20pm            ZJUSCIB [Slides in PDF]

5:30pm-9:30pm            Conference Banquet at Wang-Hu Hotel for all participants and
                                    accompanying persons

9:30 pm                        End of the conference

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Program for accompany persons

8/20-24            Full- and half- tours will be offered for each day. Further detail arrangements will be given on sightseeing.

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