AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGY, 2016, V. 51, ¹ 2, pp. 264-268 Scientific events doi: 10.15389/agrobiology.2016.2.264rus doi: 10.15389/agrobiology.2016.2.264eng RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN FARM ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (10th Anniversary Scientific Conference with international participation — analytical review) N.A. ZINOVIEVA, V.A. BAGIROV, E.A. GLADYR’, O.Yu. <...> Dubrovitsy, Podolsk Region, Moscow Province, 142132 Russia, e-mail n_zinovieva@mail.ru, vugarbagirov@mail.ru, elenagladyr@mail.ru Acknowledgements: Supported by Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Ministry of Innovations and Investments of the Moscow Province Abstract 10th All-Russian scientific conference and school «Recent achievements and challenges in farm animals biotechnology — BioTechZh-2015» (http://www.vij.ru/index.php/ru/konferentsii/) was held on December 8-11, 2015 at the L.K. Ernst All-Russian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry (Moscow Province, Russia) with the support of the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations of the Russian Federation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the Ministry of Innovations and Investments of the Moscow region. <...> A series of these scientific conferences dates back to 2001, when on the basis of the All-Russian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry (VIZh) a scientific event on farm animal biotechnology as a new research area in biology of that time has been initiated due to Professor Lev K. Ernst, the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. <...> In 2015, the anniversary conference brought together experts and young scientists (207 young scientists, graduate students and students of a total of 281 participants) to discuss promising and rapidly developing areas in biotechnology of farm animals. <...> Keywords: farm animals, game animals, gene pool, molecular and genetic research, molecular genetic studies, genetic profiling, genetic engineering. <...> The conferences BioTehZh started in 2001, when the innovative event on farm animal biotechnologies was first held in All-Russian Research Institute of Livestock (VIZH) on the initiative of Vice-President of the RAAS professor Lev K. Ernst. <...> Full genome sequencing have been reported in animals, from Btau 4.0 whole-genome resequencing in cattle ( domestic goat ( s) in 2009 [3] to CHIR_1.0 ) genome assembly in 2013 [4]. <...> SNPs were identified in comparative studies of different animal breeds to be further used in genomic analysis <...>