PAG Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop

Tuesday Morning, 16 January 2007 --- 10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop - Pacific Salon 2

Organizer: Om P. Rajora, University of New Brunswick

(Om.Rajora@unb.ca)

Speakers:

1. 10:35 am
Oliver A. Ryder, Zoological Society of San Diego, Escondido, USA (oryder@sandiegozoo.org)
"Conservation genomics: early examples of contributions of genome biology and bioinformatics to endangered species conservation efforts"

2. 10:55 am
Elizabeth G. Boulding, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada (boulding@uoguelph.ca)
"Conservation genomics of Atlantic salmon: towards understanding adaptive trait differences for the management of endangered populations"

3. 11:15 am
Roberto Papa, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy (r.papa@univpm.it)
"Tagging the signatures of domestication in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) "

4. 11:35 am
Jean Bousquet, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada (bousquet@rsvs.laval.ca)
"Is the search for molecular variation of adaptive nature illusive? Testing of a genome-wide scan approach for identifying adaptive gene polymorphisms in natural populations of white spruce "

5. 11:55 am
Robert J. Henry, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia (robert.henry@scu.edu.au)
"Diversity in a plant defense locus in wild barley populations is strongly correlated with water availability "

6. 12:15 pm
Stephen DiFazio, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA (stephen.difazio@mail.wvu.edu)
"Populus hybrid zones as natural functional genomics laboratories"


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