The 2024 Cats NSW ‘Cat of the Year’ Christmas luncheon will be held on Saturday 30th November at the Lakeside Restaurant in the heart of the idyllic Olympic rowing venue at Penrith. This function is an event not to be missed and everyone is welcome to come along and join in the fun. If you wish to attend, please download the form attached.
Address: Sydney International Regatta Centre, Gate A, Old Castlereagh Road, Penrith Lakes, Penrith 2750.
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Tickets: Cats NSW Members $59 each, Non-members $69 each
Save the date and get your tickets now, so you don’t miss out.
The Cat of the Year luncheon will be followed by the Annual General meeting for those wishing to stay.
Request for assistance, June 2024
Sydney University
Project: Identify Gene resulting in susceptibility to FIP
(Feline Infectious Peritonitis)
RESEARCHERS
Professor Jacqui Norris has been involved in the diagnostic of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) side for 24 years. Dr Sally Coggins and Dr Richard Malik have focused on treating FIP for the past 4-5 years. Sally has just finished her PhD and hopefully will soon be a Postdoctoral researcher.
BACKGROUND
Professor Niels Pedersen and colleagues showed some time ago that the heritability to SUSCEPTIBILITY to get FIP is about 50%. This means that if you exert selection pressure by looking for sires and queens that produce FIP kittens and desexing them, you will decrease the prevalence of the disease.
Now that we have cured most cats with FIP, we advise people not to breed from cats that survived FIP.
PROJECT
We hope to find more specific gene targets that will allow us to tell, through DNA testing using PCR, if a given cat is at risk of producing affected kittens.
We are especially interested in hearing about scenarios where two or more individuals in a litter develop FIP. We then want to do whole genome sequencing on the DNA of the FIP-affected cats, normal littermates, and ideally, both queen and stud. If we can do this half a dozen times, we should be in a good position to find some genes involved in susceptibility to FIP.
While it is EASY to get DNA from a 3ml blood sample (collected in an EDTA tube) from a kitten with FIP – it’s much harder to get a set of samples from the affected kitten, plus any other affected kitten, other non-affected kittens, plus mum and dad but that’s what we want to do.
CONTACT
If you can help with suitable kittens and cats – FABULOUS.
Please contact Dr Richard Malik: richard.malik@sydney.edu.au
The original source document for this announcement was kindly provided by the ACF Judges Guild and can be viewed here
Request for assistance, June 2024
Sydney University
Project: Identify Gene resulting in susceptibility to FIP
(Feline Infectious Peritonitis)
RESEARCHERS
Professor Jacqui Norris has been involved in the diagnostic of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) side for 24 years. Dr Sally Coggins and Dr Richard Malik have focused on treating FIP for the past 4-5 years. Sally has just finished her PhD and hopefully will soon be a Postdoctoral researcher.
BACKGROUND
Professor Niels Pedersen and colleagues showed some time ago that the heritability to SUSCEPTIBILITY to get FIP is about 50%. This means that if you exert selection pressure by looking for sires and queens that produce FIP kittens and desexing them, you will decrease the prevalence of the disease.
Now that we have cured most cats with FIP, we advise people not to breed from cats that survived FIP.
PROJECT
We hope to find more specific gene targets that will allow us to tell, through DNA testing using PCR, if a given cat is at risk of producing affected kittens.
We are especially interested in hearing about scenarios where two or more individuals in a litter develop FIP. We then want to do whole genome sequencing on the DNA of the FIP-affected cats, normal littermates, and ideally, both queen and stud. If we can do this half a dozen times, we should be in a good position to find some genes involved in susceptibility to FIP.
While it is EASY to get DNA from a 3ml blood sample (collected in an EDTA tube) from a kitten with FIP – it’s much harder to get a set of samples from the affected kitten, plus any other affected kitten, other non-affected kittens, plus mum and dad but that’s what we want to do.
CONTACT
If you can help with suitable kittens and cats – FABULOUS.
Please contact Dr Richard Malik: richard.malik@sydney.edu.au
The original source document for this announcement was kindly provided by the ACF Judges Guild and can be viewed here
ANSTEE Hub for Inherited Diseases in Animals (AHIDA)
ANSTEE Hub for Inherited Diseases in Animals (AHIDA) Are you concerned about inherited diseases in animals?
Most animals carry both desirable and undesirable variants in their genes — some of these variants can cause inherited diseases. Published information about inherited traits and diseases in animals is summarised in OMIA (https://omia.org).
Information about emerging inherited diseases, or information about how common an inherited disease is in Australian animals, is often limited — hindering the development of effective ways to reduce the risk of affected animals been born.
The Sydney School Of Veterinary Science has developed and launched AHIDA ( https://ahida.sydney.edu.au ) – an online platform for surveillance, reporting and facilitating control of inherited diseases in animals in Australia.
Veterinarians and animal owners can submit information about inherited diseases and can request to be connected with researchers. Anonymous submissions are available.
Researchers can register their research interests.
Click on the QR Code to go to the Hub.
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