Symposium 2

Wednesday August 22

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: Ekonomikum 4

  Conservation genetics: genetic deterioration and adaptation to changing environments
  Organizers: Kuke Bijlsma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Volker Loeschcke, Aarhus University, Denmark
(sponsored by ESF progamme ConGen)
     
  9.45-10.15 Juan Bouzat (invited)
Natural selection and the purging of deleterious recessive alleles: effects of inbreeding history, inbreeding rate and inbreeding environment
  10.15-10.45 Markus Fischer (invited)
The role of neutral and adaptive evolution for plant conservation genetics in the heterogeneous cultural landscape
  10.45-11.05 Kuke Bijlsma
The interplay between genetic and environmental stress
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Leonard Nunney
Survival or extinction: how fast can the red queen run?
  11.55-12.15 Audrey Zannese
Population responses to inbreeding and environmental perturbations: an experimental study
  12.15-12.35 Shu-Rong Zhou
The evolution of inbreeding depression in a metapopulation
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.30 Torsten N. Kristensen (invited)
Inbreeding and environmental stress – investigated on different levels of biological organization using Drosophila as a model organism
  14.30-14.50 Kamilla S. Pedersen
Proteome signatures of inbreeding and heat stress in Drosophila melanogaster
  14.50-15.10 Tarmo Ketola
Inbreeding increases resting metabolic rate and reduces energy available for allocation
  15.10-15.30 Marta Szulkin
Inbreeding-by-environment interactions in a wild bird population
  15.30-16.00 Coffee
  16.00-16.20 Germán Orizaola
Adaptability in a genetically impoverished amphibian metapopulation
  16.20-16.40 Lyanne Brouwer
Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in a bottlenecked island species; a case study on the Seychelles warbler
  16.40-17.00 Roosa Leimu
Genetic history, habitat quality and past selection as determinants of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in herbivore resistance and fitness of fragmented plant populations
  17.00-17.20 Andrea R. Pluess
Decreased plant viability due to genetic erosion in a fragmented landscape

 

 

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