Mini Symposium 'State-of-the-art and future of genomics in aquaculture
research', Bergen 20th to 21st September 2007 organised by the FP6
Aquagenome and Aquafunc projects
We herby invite your research group to participate with one or several representatives on
the mini-symposium ‘State-of-the-art and future of genomics in aquaculture research’. The
mini-symposium is organised by the FP6 Aquagenome and Aquafunc projects and will be
organised in Bergen, Norway on September 20-21 2007, to explore the use of genomics in
major research domains and with high relevance to European aquaculture.
Aquagenome is an EU FP6 project coordinated by dr. Patrick Prunet at INRA, Rennes,
France (http://genomics.aquaculture-europe.org). Aquagenome is, in part, a follow up of the
Aquafunc project, coordinated by Kristina Sundell, University of Goteborg, Sweden. The
outcome of the Aquafunc project will be summarized during the Bergen meeting.
The mini-symposium is hosted by The Institute of Marine Research, Norway (www.imr.no).
The venue will be Scandic Hotel City located downtown in Bergen near the University of
Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research; http://www.scandic-hotels.com/bergencity. The
attendants are expected to arrive on September 19 (Wednesday) and leave on September 22
(Saturday). Hotel will be provided by the project for 3 nights for one person pr group.
The mini-symposium will begin with an update on the status of genomic tools in aquaculture
species and the outcomes of the related Aquafunc project. There will then be a series of keynote presentations and discussion sessions regarding topics that are relevant in European
aquaculture and to which genomic approaches may bring substantial information. These will
include subjects such as host-pathogen interactions, environment, stress and welfare, growth
and nutrition, reproduction and breeding, toxicology, as well as monitoring of environmental
impact of aquaculture. In addition there will also be some input to the discussions from
representatives from industry, consumers and governments.
The objectives of the key-note presentation are to: 1) provide a short overview of tools
available for the specific problems in the relevant species, 2) provide some examples on the
use of genomic tools to study these processes/problems in aquaculture species, and 3) provide
some suggestions for future use of genomic tools in this field of aquaculture research.
We expect the participation of around 60 scientists in the field of genomics in aquaculture
research to this meeting.
The project will cover the conference fee (including two lunches and food at coffee breaks
etc), 3 hotel nights (single room) with breakfast, the Conference dinner and travel cost up to
500 Euro for one person for each research group.
Additional persons attending from each group will be provided with free conference fee
(including 2 lunches, food at coffee breaks etc) and free conference dinner, but must pay
hotel and travel by own budgets.
All participating groups are expected to provide a 2 page extended abstract that should be
ready at the time of the meeting. The abstracts and the key-note presentations will be
published at the Aquagenome/Aquafunc web-site as pdf files.These presentations and
extended abstract will together with the working group discussions serve the basis for a
short review of the state-of-the-art for each topic as well as the identification of gaps in
knowledge and recommendations for future research to the European Commission.
Information about the project and the conference are updated on the web-site:
http://genomics.aquaculture-europe.org/
Registration (including hotel booking) to the conference must be completed on-line on the
project web-site by September 1 2007.
The program for the conference is as follows:
FIRST DAY (September 20)
Registration (0800-0900)
Key-note presentations of 25 min each and discussion (0900-1730):
Introduction and scope of conference
Patrick Prunet, INRA, France
Aquafunc review - (FP6 Specific Support Action)
Kristina Sundell, Univ Gøteborg, Sweden
Genomics tools for aquaculture: Status and perspectives Luca Bargelloni, Univ Padova, Italy
Coffee break
Genomics in host-patogen interaction
Genomics of breeding in aquaculture
Lunch
Simon Mackenzie, Univ Barcelona, Spain
Sigbjørn Lien, Cigene/UMB, Norway
Environmental adaptations, stress and genomics
Functional genomics and proteomic approaches in the
study of reproduction in finfish aquaculture
Genomics of growth and nutrition
Ecotoxicology, toxicogenomics, and impact on product
quality and safety
Coffee break
Lluis Tort, Univ Barcelona, Spain
Genomics in mollusc Aquaculture
Genomics and monitoring of environmental impact
The use of Bioinformatics in Aquaculture
Beatriz Novoa, CSIC, Spain
Eva Garcia-Vazquez, Univ Oviedo, Spain
Aleksei Krasnov, Akvaforsk, Norway
Jean Jacques Lareyre, INRA, France
Michael J. Leaver, Univ Striling, UK
Pål Olsvik, NIFES, Norway
Conference dinner (1900-2200)SECOND DAY (September 21)
Parallel working group on topics (0830-1500)
1. Genomics of host-pathogen interaction (Moderators Antonio Figueras and Giorgios
Kotoulas)
2. Genomics to study ecotoxicological, environmental and husbandry effects on stress,
welfare and product safety & and environmental impact (Moderators Patrick Prunet
and Kristina Sundell)
3. Genomics in reproduction and breeding programmes (Moderators Pierrick Haffray,
and Geir Lasse Taranger)
4. Genomics of Growth and Nutrition (Moderators Deborah Power and Brendan
McAndrew)
5. Genomic tools and bioinformatic resources (Moderators Yann Guigen, Nikolai Mugue
and Frank Nilsen)
Final plenary discussion and summing up (1500-1600)
End of meeting (1600)