Workshop held at the 2024 Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition (NACE) and the 43rd Milford Aquaculture Seminar (MAS)
Room: Bristol/Kent
Date: January 10, 2024 Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: Omni Providence Hotel (1 W Exchange St, Providence, RI 02903)
Come learn about exciting new genomic tools for the eastern oyster that can be used to enhance aquaculture and management. The workshop will feature lightning talks highlighting findings and applications of genomic data in aquaculture, presentations on how to non-destructively sample oysters for DNA and the benefits of incorporating genomic data. The second half of the workshop will be hands-on instruction with genomic data from the eastern oyster breeding array.
| Start | End | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | 13:10 | Welcome and Introduction | Jon Puritz |
| Part 1: What can genomic data answer? | |||
| 13:10 | 13:18 | Understanding Oyster Population Connectivity and Adaptation in Narragansett Bay | Amy Zyck |
| 13:20 | 13:28 | Genomic and phenotypic variation in wild and selectively bred oysters | Angel Carrasquillo |
| 13:30 | 13:40 | Do farm oysters contribute to ecosystem services? Assessing interbreeding between aquaculture strains and native stocks | Yuqing Chen |
| 13:42 | 13:50 | No oysters were harmed in the making of this: how to non-destructively sample oyster DNA | USDA-ARS |
| 13:50 | 14:05 | Break | |
| Part 2: Hands-on workshop with the Eastern Oyster SNP Breeding Array | |||
| 14:05 | 14:20 | From DNA to SNP and what is a SNP anyway? | Jon Puritz |
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Introduction to R | Jon Puritz |
| 14:40 | 15:20 | Calculating Genetic Diversity | Jon Puritz |
| 15:20 | 16:00 | Principal Component Analysis and Discrimininant Analysis | Jon Puritz |
Register here: (https://www.northeastaquaculture.org/registration/) and sign up for the workshop here: (https://shellfish.wufoo.com/forms/nace-mas-24-workshopfield-trip-registration/) Support from RI Sea Grant is available to help cover registration costs and defer travel costs for those who are not already attending the conference. Please email Jon Puritz (jpuritz@uri.edu) with a short, one-page summary of funding needs. Amount of financial support will depend on the number of applicants and will be in the form of reimbursement.