Second Annual Professional Horse Farm Managers Seminar
Conducted by the Thoroughbred Management Program at SUNY Cobleskill
To be Held at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs
Tuesday August 26th, 2008 from 1 to 5 pm

Topics in Equine Genetics

This seminar is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors:

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Ernest Bailey, PhD
What the Horse Owner Should Know About Horse Genomics

Dr. Bailey completed his PhD at the University of California, Davis in 1980 and joined the faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Kentucky. He is a professor at the MH Gluck Equine Research Center and conducts research and graduate student training in the area of horse genetics. During the past 13 years he has served as coordinator of the International Equine Genome Workshop. He, his students and colleagues at Kentucky have studied immunogenetics, gene mapping, cytogenetics and coat color genetics for horses.

Dr. Samantha Brooks, PhD
What Can Genome Do For You?
Current and Future Applications of Equine Genomics

Dr. Brooks is a lifelong horsewoman and has competed in dressage and eventing for many years. Dr. Brooks earned a B.S. in agricultural biotechnology, focusing in equine science and genetics, from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Brooks continued at UK and obtained a PhD in Veterinary Science, specializing in genetics. Dr. Brook’s doctoral research at the Gluck Equine Research Center centered on variation at the KIT locus and developed two DNA tests for spotting patterns in the horse; Tobiano and Sabino
1. Following her PhD, she was awarded the Paul Mellon Post Doctoral fellowship to investigate gene expression and inflammation, with particular interest in laminitis. Dr. Brooks is presently an assistant professor in the Animal Science Department at Cornell University.

Dr. E. Gus Cothran, PhD
Lessons in Conservation Genetics From The Standardbred Horse

Dr. Cothran began his career at North Texas State University in Denton where he obtained a B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology. Dr. Cothran received his PhD in genetics from the University of Oklahoma in 1982. Dr. Cothran studied population genetics of white-tailed deer at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory near Aiken, S.C. and in addition has worked on genetics of horses and a species of South American opossum at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Cothran moved to University of Kentucky in 1986 and assumed a position as Director of the Equine Parentage Testing and Research Laboratory and Research Professor in the Department of Veterinary Science. In 2006 Dr. Cothran moved to Texas A&M University where he is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences which is in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science. Dr. Cothran has a genotyping laboratory that does typing of horses, cattle, dogs and cats. Dr. Cothran is involved in research in genetic mapping, genetics of specific characteristics, population genetics and conservation genetics of rare breeds.

Admission Cost: $45.00 per person if pre-registered by August 19th.
$65.00 per person at the door.

For registration information contact: Office of Community Outreach at SUNY Cobleskill 518-255-5528.

For any other information please contact:
Ray Whelihan, Thoroughbred Management Program at SUNY Cobleskill 518-255-5695
Whelihrd@cobleskill.edu

A special thank you for their help developing this seminar is due to:
New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund
Janet Forry, United States Trotting Association
New York Thoroughbred Breeders
Fiona Farrell, Esq. Coordinator, CCE Equine of Saratoga
Sue Vitro, founder, New York Horse Farm Managers Association

Please use the form listed below to register for the seminar. Phone or fax
registrations are accepted with credit card payment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Second Annual Professional Horse Farm Manager’s Seminar

August 26th, 2008 1:00 to 5:00 PM

Held at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

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