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Programme

Day 1 - Tuesday 7^th 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 8^th 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 9^th 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 9 Mar, 2023