'Quantitative genetics and selective breeding'; 'Genetics and genomics of diseases and stress'; and 'Genomic Prediction', are some of the categories of most interest among the researchers who submitted their abstracts to the XIV International Symposium on Aquaculture Genetics, ISGA 2022.
The meeting, which will take place between November 27th and December 2nd, in Puerto Varas, Chile, will bring together national and foreign genetic experts, who will present the results of their research through presentations, poster sessions and activities focused on the international and the Chilean salmon farming industry. In addition to the topics mentioned above, the symposium will also address: biotechnology and functional genomics; sexual control; industrial application of genetics; gene editing; genetics of nutrition; epigenetics; genomes and metabiomes; populations genetics; ethics, food safety, and environmental risk..png)
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Dr. José Manuel Yáñez López, president of the Local Organizing Committee and recently appointed Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Livestock Sciences of Universidad de Chile, saying that 'a total of 214 abstracts were presented, exceeding all the expectations of the Organizing Committee'.
The national and international scientific committee members will evaluate the abstracts and select the researchers who will participate as speakers at the ISGA 2022 conference. 'Both committees are evaluating the abstracts received based on four criteria', says Dr. Yáñez. 'These are the relevance of the subject of the problem under study; the novelty of the material described in the abstract; evaluation of scientific processes and methods used in the investigation and design of solutions; in addition to the progress presented by the results and the conclusion in the area of knowledge addressed', he concludes.
The ISGA 2022 International Scientific Committee that is evaluating the abstracts is comprised of Dra. Elizabeth Boulding, Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Dra. Supawadee Poompuang, Professor in the Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart Chatuchak University, Bangkok, Thailand; Dr. Dean Jerry, Professor of Aquaculture at James Cook University and Director of the ARC Research Center for Advancing Tropical Aquaculture through Genetic Solutions and the Tropical Futures Institute, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia; Dr. Diogo Teruo Hashimoto, a researcher at the Aquaculture Center of the State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Dr. Peng Xu, Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiang'an District, China; Dr. Paulino Martínez, professor and researcher at the Department of Genetics at University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain; Dra. Delphine Lallias, a researcher at the National Institute for Agrifood and Environmental Research (INRAE) in Paris, France, and current coordinator of the EPICOOL project, supported by the European Fund for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs; and Dra. Anna Wargelius, from the Reproduction and Development Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway.
Some of the National Scientific Committee members whom will also participate in the abstract evaluations are: Dr. Roberto Neira Roa, professor of Genetic at the Department of Animal Production of Universidad de Chile, a specialist in genetics and animal improvement; Dra. Natalia Lam Pastén, assistant professor in the Department of Animal Production of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Universidad de Chile; Dr. Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre, associate professor at the Center for Research and Development of Coastal Resources and Environments (Centro i~mar) of Universidad de Los Lagos, Puerto Montt campus; Dra. Marcela Astorga, professor at the Aquaculture Institute of Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt campus and Director of the Postgraduate School; Dra. Liane Bassini, assistant professor at the Faculty of Life Sciences of Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago; and Dr. Baltasar Fernández García, animal scientist and Doctor of Genetics and Animal Breeding at the University of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (UNESP), who is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Aquaculture Genomics Laboratory of Universidad de Chile.
The abstract evaluation results will be announced on August 16th, through a formal communication to the researchers. The final set of approved abstracts will be published in the official program.
For more information on the symposium, registration, sponsorship categories and data on places of interest, among other background information, visit the official ISGA 2022 page, HERE.
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