Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the NCERA-57 was called to order by John Baker, Committee Advisor, at 8:26 AM on Wednesday May 30. John introduced Jeff Armstrong, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Jeff welcomed us to campus and invited a discussion about the college and USDA/HATCH issues. In particular, USDA would not have new funds but would redistribute them differently in the future. There was also discussion about how to deal with animal facilities long-term at a College of Agriculture. This included the impact of AAALAC accreditation on operation of animal facilities. Finally Jeff indicated the college was doing well with many new hires. Jeff then introduced Karen Plaut, head of Animal Sciences. She explained the Animal Science Department structure and how it worked. In particular, the reproduction area focuses on dairy but many model species are utilized. There are approximately 300 undergraduates and 100, 2 year, Ag-Tech students with approximately 40 staff. There is an increasing emphasis on transitioning classes to include companion animals as seen in other Animal Science departments across the country. John Baker next went over NCERA-57. Currently, Roy Kirkwood is president, John Parrish is vice-president and Dave Guthrie is the secretary. Minutes of the meeting will be taken by John Parrish and sent to Dave Guthrie who could not attend this year. The renewal process was then reviewed. The rewrite of the committee will need to be done by assigning a writing committee to prepare draft and issues for the 2008 meeting. The committee should be assigned in Jan 2008 with a report at the May 2008 meeting. The rewrite should focus on the success of the symposiums, NRI proposal. It was also mentioned that everyone should look at the NIMMS site and our own website for information on the committee. John Parrish also asked each member to submit some impact statements for use in the NIMMS report. Deb Hamernik, the CSREES representative could not attend and her report was emailed to all committee members. Roy Kirkwood next addressed the meeting logistics. Duane Davis went over the NRI Integrated Project Proposal that was submitted by he and Dave Guthrie entitledSeasonal Infertility in Swine: Research and educational goals to enhance the profitability and sustainability of the swine industry discussing the criticisms of the reviewers. It was decided that some of the members would agree to test of the teaching material at their university and participate in the rewrite. Duane will be heading up the teaching section and we hoped that Dave Guthrie would again head the research section. The station reports then began and continued until 3:15 PM when we traveled to the Diagnostic Center Population and Animal Health building for a tour. We were welcomed at the building by Steve Bolin who gave us a most interesting tour. Great discussion of many topics occurred at dinner. The business meeting was called to order on Thursday May 31 by John Baker who found the gavel and used it to open the business meeting. The committee welcomed Matt Wilson as the representative from West Virginia. It was then mentioned the pointer was missing and Mark Diekman will ensure it is present at the meeting next year. The tentative dates for the next meeting are June 25-26, 2008 at Purdue University. On Wednesday morning we would have station reports and then travel to JBS United, Sheridan Indiana, for a symposium. Station reports and the business meeting will then be on Thursday. Tim Safranski, Mark Diekman, Joe Ford and Matt Wilson will serve as the program committee. Although several topics were suggested, the program committee will discuss topics in consultation with JBS United. The late nature of the meeting was due to an early date for SSR and Mark Diekman's previous commitments. Matt Wilson was elected by unanimous vote to be the new secretary (was that a surprise!). John Parrish reminded everyone of the website for the committee and asked if station reports could be distributed on the website with a password protection. It was decided that we would do this so a record of station reports could be kept for future members and be located all in one spot. A password was discussed but will be distributed only to members of the committee. A further discussion of the NRI proposal was then conducted. It was suggested the focus stay the same but with some changes to the teaching section which will be addressed via email discussion among the members. A big thanks was then extended to Roy Kirkwood for hosting the meeting and making all the arrangements, following which we returned to station reports. The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 AM with the passing of the gavel to John Parrish. Thanks to John Parrish for recording the minutes for me. Respectively submitted Dave Guthrie, Secretary, NCERA-57

1. A CSREES NRI integrated research proposal was submitted in November of 2006 entitled Seasonal Infertility in Swine: Research and Educational Goals to Enhance the Profitability and Sustainability of the Swine Industry. The proposal was not funded in 2007 and the co- principal investigators Dave Guthrie and Duane Davis with the help of other committee members will revise the proposal and re-submit for funding in 2008. 2. John Parrish is commended for making great progress in the development of the website for the committee http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/ /ncera57/index.html 3. Planning was started was started for the 2008 symposium with Tim Safranski, Mark Diekman, Joe Ford and Matt Wilson serving as the program committee. The tentative plan is to travel to JBS United, Sheridan Indiana, for the symposium on Wednesday. Station reports and the business meeting will then be on Thursday. The topics and title of the symposium will be developed by the program committee in consultation with JBS United. 4. Collaborations: Scientists at University of Nebraska, Lincoln and USDA-MARC have established a collaboration to examine the association between polymorphisms within the promoter for the GNRH gene and FSH production in swine. This research could lead to genetic tests for fertility as well as new methods for improvement of sperm production and litter size in swine. Dave Guthrie and Joe Ford will continue a collaboration on the genetics of the genetics of post-thaw sperm survival in swine. During the past four years we have investigated 12 boar sire lines at the USDA Meat Animal Research Center which were shipped to Beltsville for analysis of viability after cryopreservation. Two of these lines have maintained significantly greater post-thaw survival than the others. The MARC group has developed sets genetic markers spanning the entire genome have been genotyped on all sires of the BX population, a large group of sows born in 2004 and 1008 gilts born in 2005. The set of markers includes over 100 microsatellite markers and approximately 200 SNP markers. We will continue this work to link the trait of sperm cryosurvival to microsatellite markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms.

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