Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The 2013 annual meeting of the NCERA57 was held at Beltsville, MD in room 003 of Building 003 on the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center campus. The meeting was called to order by Dave Guthrie, Vice Chair and local host at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, May 21st. Dave Guthrie made opening remarks and introduced the Director of BARC, Dr. Steven R. Shafer. Dr. Shafer gave a brief history of BARC and indicated that it is the largest Animal and Plant Center in the US with currently about 180 scientists. Research at BARC involves not only animal and plant studies but food safety and human nutrition. The campus has a rich history dating almost 100 years. Programs have opened the fields of genomics and molecular techniques to increase milk production as well as the first transgenic growth hormone pigs were developed at BARC. Dr. Mark Mirando, National Program Leader for Animal Nutrition and Growth and Reproduction within the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), attended the meeting and provided a NIFA update which included the announcement of the appointment of Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy as the new Director of NIFA on May 7, 2012. Dr. Adele Turzillo, National Program Leader for Animal Production Systems, was promoted to Director, Institute of Animal Systems April 8, 2013. The Animal Reproduction FY2013 proposals have been reviewed but notifications will not go out until the recent federal budget funding has been approved through the NIFA programs. Dr. Mirando indicated the opportunity for funding through the Dual Purpose with Dual Benefit: Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Species program. Next application deadline is September 24, 2013. Following the NIFA update, station reports were given by Dr. Brett White (Nebraska), Jeremy Miles (USMARC), Duane Davis (Kansas), Rod Geisert (Missouri), and Jason Ross (Iowa). Following lunch, Jason Ross led a discussion for the establishment of the 2014 NCERA-57 Symposium presentation speakers and committee. Location of symposium was discussed and committee agreed that the symposium will be held in Lincoln, NE with the annual meeting of the NCERA-057 group. The meeting in Lincoln, NE would coincide with the anniversary of the opening of MARC in Clay Center, NE which would be a special program with the research group at MARC. Previous topics for the symposium were reviewed by Dr. Ross and the group selected to have the symposium topic cover Improved Litter Size and Environmental Effects on Pig Quality. Possible speakers included Dr. Clay Lents (USDA-ARS-MARC), Billy Flowers (North Carolina State) and Roger Johnson (University of Nebraska). Brett White (University of Nebraska), Jeremy Miles (USDA-MARC), Tim Safranski (University of Missouri) and Jason Ross (Iowa State University) were selected to form the committee to develop the symposium and sponsors. The symposium will be held May 20, 2014. Dr. John Parrish provided the station report for Wisconsin and the meeting was adjourned for dinner. On Wednesday May 22, Dr. John Baker conducted the business meeting for the NCERA-57 committee. Dr. Baker praised the organization and accomplishments of the NCERA057 committee and indicated that this specific committee was among the easiest to advise and the most focused in the program. He stated that the NCERA057 committee very accurately conducts the purposes intended for this program. For the 2013-2014 officers, Jason Ross will step down as Chairman and Dave Guthrie will become the new Chairman with Rod Geisert filling the position of Vice Chairman. The group selected and approved John Parrish as secretary. Dave Guthrie was also finally added as a member of the NCERA-57 group and Rod Geisert still needs to be placed on the committee by his station. John Baker indicated that group was on the 4th year of the program and needed to develop a rewrite for the next 5 year renewal. The objectives for the proposal are to be loaded into the NIMSS are due October 15, 2013, all participants and AES must submit Appendix E forms by November 15 and the complete proposal is due in the NIMSS system by December 1. The group selected John Parrish (Wisconsin) to chair the committee to write the renewal proposal with Duane Davis (Kansas) and Rod Geisert (Missouri). The committee will work on objectives which will be email to the group for editing and approval. The group discussed adding new members to the NCERA-57 participants. John Baker will extend invitations to Lea Rempel (USDA-MARC), Frank White (Cameron University, Cameron, OK), Greg Johnson (Texas A&M) and Kim Vonnahme (North Dakota State University) to participate in the 2014 annual meeting. Dr. Jeremy Miles discussed developing an integrated USDA grant on Seasonal Fertility which would focus on boars. There is good strength in the male, semen, seasonality and fertility within members of the NCERA-57 group. The goal would be to develop a good proposal for the RFP on Climate Change. The proposal would investigate the use of frozen versus extend semen form boar studs during summer/winter. Possible objectives would be to evaluate sperm morphology (techniques from John Parrish lab), pregnancy rates, and epigenetic effects through methylation of DNA in the fetus and placenta. A committee consisting of Jeremy Miles (USDA-MARC), Lea Rempel (USDA-MARC), John Parrish (Wisconsin), Tim Safranski (Missouri) and Duane Davis (Kansas) were selected to develop the proposal. Dr. Dave Guthrie provided the last station report for USDA-BARC. The meeting was adjourned and Dave provided a tour of the research buildings and laboratories on the Beltsville (BARC) campus. The meeting was adjourned at 12:05 PM. respectfully submitted, Rod Geisert, Secretary, NCERA57

1. Numerous publications were published by committee members and their associates during the past year that provide scientific knowledge and impact on reproductive efficiency in swine. 2. The topic, location and program committee for the 2014 NCERA-57 Symposium on Improved Litter Size and Environmental Effects on Pig Quality was completed. 3. The group discussed the preliminary experiments at USMARC to design, write, and submit a NIFA Integrated Grant proposal to support a study of the relative contributions of the male to seasonal infertility in swine using frozen semen. A committee to develop and write the proposal was formed to submit the completed proposal AFRI Foundational Program on Climate Change when the RFP is released. 4. A committee was selected to write the 5 year renewal for the NCERA-57 program.

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