Douglas Antczak

Professor

College of Veterinary Medicine

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Ernest F. Bailey

Professor

Department of Veterinary Science

M. H. Gluck Equine Research Center

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

Guy F. Barbato

Associate Professor of Physiological Genetics

Poultry Science Department

Penn State University

University Park, PA

Leah M. Becker

Government Relations Representative

National Pork Producers Council

Washington, DC

Jonathan E. Beever

Assistant Professor

Department of Animal Sciences

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

Peter Brayton

Program Director

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

Animal Genome and Genetic Mechanisms Program

Washington, DC

John Byatt

Genomics Technical Leader

Monsanto

St. Louis, MO

Anthony V. Capuco

Research Physiologist

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Gene Evaluation and Mapping Lab

Beltsville, MD

Bhanu P. Chowdhary

Associate Professor

College of Veterinary Medicine

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX

Noelle Cockett

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Utah State University

Logan, UT

Erin E. Connor

Research Molecular Biologist

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Gene Evaluation and Mapping Laboratory

Beltsville, MD

Neal G. Copeland

Chief

Mouse Cancer Genetics Program

National Cancer Institute

Center for Cancer Research

Frederick, MD

Pieter J. de Jong

Director

Oakland Research Institute

Oakland, CA

Gregory Dilworth

Team Leader

U.S. Department of Energy

Energy Biosciences Program

Germantown, MD

Jerry B. Dodgson

Professor and Chair

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Daniel Drell

Program Manager

U.S. Department of Energy

Life Sciences Division

Germantown, MD

Leland Ellis, Jr.

National Program Leader

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Animal Production, Product Value and Safety

Beltsville, MD

Kellye A. Eversole

President

Eversole Associates

Chevy Chase, MD

Richard R. Frahm

National Program Leader, Animal Genetics

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Cooperative State Research,

Education, and Extension Service

Washington, DC

Claire Fraser

President and Director

The Institute for Genomic Research

Rockville, MD

Richard Gibbs

Professor and Director

Baylor College of Medicine-Human Genome Sequencing Center

Houston, TX

Peter Good

Program Director

National Human Genome Research Institute

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

Eric Green

Senior Investigator and Chief,

Genome Technology Branch, and

Director, Intramural Sequencing Center

National Human Genome Research Institute

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

Frank Greene

Division Director

Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience

National Science Foundation

Arlington, VA

Mark Guyer

Assistant Director for Scientific Coordination

National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

Aziz Jamai

Researcher

Plant and Soil Science and General Agriculture

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Carbondale, IL

Nancy Jenkins

Principal Investigator

Mouse Cancer Genetics Program

National Cancer Institute

Center for Cancer Research

Frederick, MD

Peter Johnson

Division Director

Animals Division, and the

Nutrition, Food Safety, and Health Division

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

National Research Initiative

Washington, DC

Elke Jordan

Director of Extramural Research

National Human Genome Research Institute

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

Ed Kaleikau

Divison Director for Plant Genomics and Plant Sciences

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

National Research Initiative

Washington, DC

Sagarika Kanjilal

Assistant Professor

Department of Veterinary Pathobiology

University of Minnesota

St. Paul, MN

Steven Kappes

National Program Leader, Food

Safety and Health, and National

Program Leader, Animal Nutrition

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Clay Center, NE

John Kirby

Director, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR

Susan J. Lamont

Professor and Head, Animal

Science Department

Iowa State University

Ames, IA

Yuandan Lee

Post-Doctoral Fellow

The Institute for Genomic Research

Rockville, MD

Harris Lewin

Professor

Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

Joan K. Lunney

Research Leader

Immunology and Disease Resistance Lab

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Beltsville, MD

Leslie A. Lyons

Assistant Professor, and Staff Scientist

Department of Population Health and Reproduction

School of Veterinary Medicine

University of California, Davis

Davis, CA

Khalid Meksem

Assistant Professor

Plant and Soil Science, and General Agriculture

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Carbondale, IL

Laurie McGinley

Staff Reporter

Wall Street Journal

New York, NY

Joachim Messing

Director

Institute of Microbiology

Rutgers University

Piscataway, NJ

Stephen Moore

Chair, Beef Genomics, Agriculture,

Food, and Nutritional Science

Canada Alberta Beef Industry

Development Fund

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB

Adilson Mota

Visiting Scientist

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Beltsville, MD

James D. Murray

Professor

Department of Population Health and Reproduction, and Department of Animal Science

University of California, Davis

Davis, CA

Scott Newman

Customer Programs Leader

Sygen International

Franklin, KY

Stephen James O’Brien

Sylvio Conte Senior Biomedical

Research Service Fellow

Laboratory of Genomic Diversity

National Cancer Institute

Frederick, MD

Terezinha Padilha

Research Scientist

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service,

Immunology and Disease

Resistance Laboratory

Beltsville, MD

Albert Paszek

Cargill, Inc.

Minnetonka, MN

Aristides Patrinos

Office of Biological and Environmental Research

Life Sciences Division

U.S. Department of Energy

Germantown, MD

Ronald Phillips

Regent’s Professor

Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics

University of Minnesota

St. Paul, MN

Daphne Preuss

Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Steven Pueppke

Associate Dean for Research

Consumer and Environmental Sciences

College of Agriculture

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

Ernest F. Retzel

Director

Center for Computational

Genomics and Bioinformatics

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Caird Rexroad, Jr.

Associate Deputy Administrator,

Animal Production, Product Value, and Safety

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Beltsville, MD

Max F. Rothschild

C. F. Curtiss Distinguished

Professor in Agriculture

Iowa State University

Ames, IA

James F. Schneider

Babcock Genetics, Inc.

Holmen, WI

Lawrence Schook

Professor of Comparative Genomics

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

Kevin T. Schultz

Member of the Management

Committee, Head of Research and Development

Merial Limited

Duluth, GA

John Shadduck

Chief Executive Officer

Optibrand Ltd., LLC

Ft. Collins, CO

Furman G. Sizemore

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Loren C. Skow

Professor

Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health

College of Veterinary Medicine

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX

Ed J. Smith

Associate Professor

Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences

Virginia Polytechnic and State

University

Blacksburg, VA

Tad S. Sonstegard

Research Geneticist

Genetic Evaluation and Mapping Laboratory

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Beltsville, MD

Curtis Van Tassell

Research Geneticist

Genetic Evaluation and Mapping Laboratory

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Agricultural Research Service

Beltsville, MD

Anne K. Vidaver

Chief Scientist

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Cooperative State Research,

Education, and Extension Service Programs

Washington, DC

George Weinstock

Professor and Co-Director

Human Genome Sequencing Center

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

James Womack

Professor

Texas A&M University

Department of Veterinary

Pathobiology

College Station, TX

Roger Wyse

Managing Director

Burrill & Company

San Francisco, CA

Nieves M. Zaldivar

Eversole Associates

Chevy Chase, MD