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Report of the NIH Rat Model Repository Workshop

Lansdowne Conference Center
Lansdowne, Virginia
August 19-20, 1998

Agenda

Wednesday, August 19, 1998

Plenary Session One

8:30 a.m.	Introduction and Charge	Dr. Mockrin
8:45 a.m.	Rat History and Background	Dr. Gill
8:55 a.m.	Rat Genome Resources	Dr. Jacob
9:15 a.m.	Rat Nomenclature and Rat Map	Dr. Levan
9:30 a.m.	Overview of Major Strains Cardiovascular/Renal Neurobiology/Aging/Mental Health	Dr. Rapp Dr. Harris
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	Overview Major Strains Immunology Cancer Diabetes Transgenesis	Dr. Gill Dr. Pitot Dr. Guberski Dr. Hammer
11:00 a.m.	Existing Repository Programs Europe Japan USA Commercial Charles River Harlan Sprague-Dawley	Dr. Hedrich Dr. Nomura Dr. Rall Dr. Balk Dr. Russell
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Jax Strategies for Mouse	Dr. Mobraaten
1:50 p.m.	New Strains - Prospects and Promise Rat ES Cell/Nuclear Transfer RI Strains Consomics/Congenics Transgenics/KOs/KIs	Dr. Iannaccone Dr. Printz Dr. Kwitek-Black Dr. Hammer
3:15 p.m.	Breakout Groups
Group 1	Strain Selection Criteria for admission to the repository Finding strains Criteria for animal distribution (academic/commercial) Criteria and number of substrains maintained Costs	Dr. Festing
Group 2	The Repository Central or distributed resource Academic and/or commercial distribution Import/export Existing strains New strains Requirements: spf/naf Quality control Costs	Dr. Cork
Group 3	Maintenance Cryopreserve or maintain breeding colonies Research and development for maintenance and preservation Identify key features for standard protocol/back-up for storage (cryopreservation) Preservation of strains not selected Costs	Drs. Pakes and Iannaccone
Group 4	Operations Advisory group structure, operation, reporting How involved is NIH? Advertising/Marketing Cost Recovery Informatics - Interface with databases Costs	Dr. Hammer
6:00 p.m.	Recess
6:30 p.m.	Reception
7:00 p.m.	Dinner
8:30 p.m.	Write up Breakout Group recommendations for handouts in the morning

Thursday, August 20, 1998

Plenary Session II

8:30 a.m.	Breakout Group Reports
8:30 a.m.	Group 1	Dr. Festing
9:15 a.m.	Group 2	Dr. Cork
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	Group 3	Dr. Pakes
11:00 a.m.	Group 4	Dr. Hammer
11:45 a.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Breakout Groups reconvene

Plenary Session II

2:30 p.m.	Final Breakout Group Recommendations Presented
	Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4	Dr. Festing Dr. Cork Drs. Pake and Iannaccone Dr. Hammer
3:30 p.m.	Summary	Dr. Gill
4:15 p.m.	Adjourn

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Report of the NIH Rat Model Repository Workshop

Lansdowne Conference Center Lansdowne, Virginia August 19-20, 1998

Agenda

Lansdowne Conference Center
Lansdowne, Virginia
August 19-20, 1998