Workshops - Science Meetings

Conservation genetics is a relatively young research area, however, the rapid production in the field resulted in a diversity of concepts and methods. Although each of these concepts/methods provided contributions to the field, the consensus of the authorities on the most appropriates ones is a necessity. By organising this workshop, it is aimed to establish a forum for the experts of the field to discuss recent developments and to define the future directions. For further information contact the local organiser, Professor Battal Ciplak

The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate the development of the population and quantitative genetic theory that can describe the patterns of phenotypic divergence, in a form that will be easily applicable to the analysis of problems of concern for conservation genetics. This will be done by bringing together theoretical population geneticists, statisticians and empirical conservation geneticists to present their work, so that an overview of the actual problems that are faced in the field can be found, along with the mathematical and statistical tools that can be applied to these problems. For further information contact the local organiser, Dr. Robert O‘Hara

This workshop wants to address general questions about the role for genetic variation for threatened species to sustain habitat fragmentation and degradation and how populations adapt to their environment and how incorporating new techniques and methods may help to solve these issues. It will focus on what genetic processes are linked to extinction processes: whether such are associated with a general reduction of genetic diversity or mainly linked to specific ecologically important loci. As such the workshop will contrast the findings of the recent studies made using neutral genetic markers variation with data from selected loci. For further information ocntact the local organiser, Professor Jakob Höglund