PAG Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop

Tuesday Morning, 15 January 2008 --- 10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop - Pacific Salon 1 & 2

Organizer: Om P. Rajora, University of New Brunswick

(om.rajora@unb.ca)

Speakers:

1; 10:20
Michael H. Kohn, Rice University (hmkohn@rice.edu)
"Genomics and Conservation Genetics"

2; 10:40
Louis Bernatchez, Université Laval (Louis.Bernatchez@bio.ulaval.ca)
"Transcriptome Applications in Salmonid Conservation Genetics"

3; 11:00
Steven M. Carr, Memorial University of Newfoundland (scarr@mun.ca)
"Whole-Genome mtDNA Phylogeographic Genomics for the Investigation of Species at Risk: Origins of the Codmother (Gadus morhua) and Her Expansion Out of Newfoundland"

4; 11:20
Shawn Narum, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station (nars@critfc.org)
"Differentiating Salmon Populations at Broad and Fine Geographic Scales with Microsatellites and SNPs"

5; 11:40
Washington Gapare, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products (Washington.Gapare@csiro.au)
"Nucleotide Diversity in Native Radiata Pine Populations: Implications for Gene Conservation and Association Studies"

6; 12:00
Natalie D. Halbert, Texas A&M University (nhalbert@cvm.tamu.edu)
"Analyzing Population Breeding Structure in American Bison (Bison Bison): A Case Study in Wildlife Conservation"

7; 12:15
Zeki Kaya, Middle East Technical University (kayaz@metu.edu.tr)
"Genetic Polymorphisms in Turkish Sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis) Varieties with Respect to trn Region of the Chloroplast Genome"


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