Online Landscape Genetics Graduate Student Course Available Jan 17 – May 9,
2018, Wed 8:30 – 10:30 PST (also can be taken at any time using taped lectures)
Cost $500 individuals, $1000 Groups
Course Organizers: Helene Wagner, Melanie Murphy, and Lisette Waits
Co-Instructors: Niko Balkenhol, Jeff Bowman, Sam Cushman, Marie-Josee
Fortin, Caren Goldberg, Nusha Keyghobadi, Erin Landguth, Stephanie Manel, Sean
Schoville, Kim Selkoe, Steve Spear, and others
Course description
This course on Landscape Genetics provides a unique opportunity for
interdisciplinary training and provides an overview of the field of landscape
genetics. The course caters to students in basic and applied ecology,
conservation and population genetics, landscape ecology, evolutionary biology
and conservation biology. A key objective of landscape genetics is to study how
landscape modification and habitat fragmentation affect organism dispersal and
gene flow across the landscape. Landscape genetics requires highly
interdisciplinary specialized skills making intensive use of technical
population genetic skills and spatial analysis tools (spatial statistics, GIS
tools and remote sensing).
Landscape Genetics will be concurrently offered at multiple universities
across the globe, giving students the opportunity to learn from international
experts and work with peers from outside institutions. For students who are not
members of the participating institutions, we are offering a web-based online
course to reach a broader audience. Each course meeting will start with a live
web-cast lecture (no special software required) by an expert on the topic that
introduces foundations and methods and highlights points for discussion in
local seminar groups.
After breaking out into local course group discussion (including a
discussion group for online course students), a web-based discussion across
campuses will wrap up the weekly topic. Students who are unable to make it to
live- cast of lectures can view taped lectures. In addition, students can
choose to participate in an optional lab section using R and/or
interdisciplinary group term projects with web-based collaboration across
institutions. The final two options are provided to help students develop
analytical skills in Landscape Genetics. Students who participate in group
projects will have the option of applying to attend a project synthesis meeting
in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in May 2018.
Course website: https://sites.google.com/site/dgs2018landscapegenetics/
How to register? Please register here by Dec 30th:
https://goo.gl/forms/iEMKsRSbkp8KN25l1. A link to the registration form can
also be found on the course website.
Faculty who would like to add a local section of the course at their
university can register as a group or multiple students at one institution can
register as a group to decrease cost/student.
Lisette Waits, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department Head
Fish and Wildlife Sciences
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1136
(208) 885-7823
Lisette Waits, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department Head
Fish and Wildlife Sciences
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1136
(208) 885-7823
