Save the dates...
and plan to attend the 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium on
October 31-November 2, 2014 at the Marriott Country Club Plaza in Kansas City,
MO. The Symposium will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31th and conclude
on Sunday November 2nd at noon. Registration will open soon!
The 12th Ecological Genomics Symposium will feature an outstanding lineup of
speakers that will discuss their latest research results.
To learn about the Kansas State University Ecological Genomics Institute,
please visit at http://ecogen.ksu.edu<http://ecogen.ksu.edu/>
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Zach Cheviron, University of Illinois, Evolutionary and functional genomics of
high-altitude adaptation in deer mice
Casandra Extavour, Harvard University, Using Drosophilid flies to understand
how the development of reproductive capacity may be influenced by ecological
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Jack Gilbert, University of Chicago and Argonne. Mapping the Microbiome in
Agricultural Ecology
Felicity Jones, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, Germany, Molecular mechanisms
of adaptive divergence and speciation in threespine sticklebacks.
Catherine Linnen, University of Kentucky, From mice to mutations: Genetic basis
of adaptive coloration in Peromyscus
Michael Lynch, Indiana University, Moving population-genomics forward: 5000
Daphnia pulex genomes
Sean Place, University of Oregon?, Comparative transcriptomics: An alternative
approach to conservation in the Southern Ocean
Jesse Poland, Kansas State University, High-throughput genotype and phenotype
analysis of agriculture ecosystems
John Stinchcombe, University of Toronto, Ecology and genomics of life history
adaptation in introduced Arabidopsis populations
Alex Wilson, University of Miami, Metabolic and developmental integration of
the obligate intracellular symbionts of sap feeding insects
POSTER SESSIONS: A poster sessions will be held on Friday evening and Saturday
afternoon. Poster topics should be related to the field of Ecological
Genomics. A LIMITED NUMBER OF SUBMITTED POSTER ABSTRACTS WILL BE SELECTED FOR
ORAL PRESENTATIONS.
Please share this announcement with colleagues and students who are interested
in learning more about the field of Ecological Genomics. If you have
questions, please contact Michael Herman or Loretta Johnson.
Funding for this symposium is provided by Kansas State University and the
American Genetics Association.
Ecological Genomics Institute Directors:
Dr. Loretta Johnson, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Dr. Michael Herman, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Kansas State University, Division of Biology
116 Ackert Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-4901
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