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06 May 2025

By: CRB-Anim - Edition P. Huan

Kick-off of the RESIGEN program: new research for CRB-Anim

Some sixty people (breeders, R&D engineers from breeding companies, researchers and technicians from institutes...) took part in the launch of the RESIGEN France2030 program, organized by the Syndicat des sélectionneurs avicoles et aquacoles français (SYSAAF) at the INRAE Val-de-Loire center in Nouzilly (37).
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CRB-Anim: an illustration of the biobanking strategy recommended by the FAO for animal genetic resources

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At a seminar organized during the visit of an international INRAE delegation to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Michèle Tixier-Boichard presented the FAO's biobanking strategy for animal genetic resources, followed by illustrations linked to CRB-Anim's activities.

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From 03 Feb. 2025 to 07 Feb. 2025

Center INRAE Jouy-en-Josas - webinar

Participate in the Workshop “G2P in a dish” organized by EuroFAANG

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In the frame of the EuroFAANG INFRA-DEV project, funded by the EU Commission, INRAE is organising a hybrid workshop on the potential of cellular systems and genome editing for Genotype-to-Phenotype research in farm animals, in order to validate hypotheses and explore new ones, while adhering to the ethical principles of the 3Rs.

CRB-Anim at the European Biobank Week (EBW) to communicate on the challenges facing biobanks and G2P research (from genotype to phenotype)

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The European Biobanking Week (EBW) congress is jointly organized by ESBB (the European, African and Middle Eastern Society for Biobanking and Biopreservation) and BBMRI-ERIC (the European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomedical Research). The 2024 edition took place from May 14 to 17 at the Hofburg conference center in Vienna, Austria.

What samples do we store?

Around 530,000 biological samples (semen, embryos, cells, tissues, DNA, RNA) from farm and companion animals are already stored in the biological resource centers (BRCs) of the CRB-Anim network: ruminants, pigs, equines, rabbits, dogs, cats, poultry, farmed fish, molluscs and insects - a total of 22 species.

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Biological Resource Center for domestic animals

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CRB-Anim brings together 10 members from public research organizations (INRAE, CNRS, IFREMER), higher education establishments (Université de Rennes, VETAGRO SUP, ONIRIS), professional partners (IFIP, IDELE, IFCE) and a private platform and company, ANTAGENE. 
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​Biological resources concern domestic animal species (farm animals and pets) bred in France and their wild relatives (mammals, birds, fish, shellfish, etc.).  The genomic collections of breeders' associations or selection companies are housed within the CRB-Anim BRCs. CRB-Anim brings together two types of collections: cryobanks, "reproductive" collections preserving semen or embryos in liquid nitrogen (-196°C), and "genomic" collections preserving blood, tissue or DNA from the same animals in laboratory freezers.  Research into genetic diversity, breeding and biomedical models combines these characterized biological samples with access to cryopreservation tools for biological resources.

CRB-Anim is the animal pillar of the AgroBRC-RARe National Research Infrastructure

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AgroBRC-RARe is a research infrastructure included in the national roadmap that brings together five networks of CRBs conserving genetic, genomic and biological resources assembled and characterized by research on domestic animals, model or cultivated plants, wild species related to domesticated species, forest trees, microorganisms of agronomic or agri-food interest, and environmental microorganisms and organisms. https://www.agrobrc-rare.org/