5-6 Jun 2024 Paris (France)

Planning

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Time Event (+)
10:00 - 10:25 Coffee  
10:25 - 10:30 Opening Welcome - Conference Organizers  
10:30 - 11:00 Genomics and the rewilding of an African national park - Marc Stalmans, Gorongosa National Park  
11:00 - 12:00 Applied aspects of conservation genomics (+)  
11:00 - 11:15 › Counting invisible elephants. Developing non-invasive DNA sampling methods for wild elephants - Andrew Tighe, University College Dublin [Dublin], Pwani University  
11:15 - 11:30 › Little evidence of inbreeding depression for birth mass, survival and growth in Antarctic fur seal pups - Anna Paijmans, Universität Bielefeld = Bielefeld University  
11:30 - 11:45 › Using genomic data to estimate mate compatibilities in the endangered endemic Brassica insularis - Sandrine MAURICE, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier - Xavier Vekemans, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198  
11:45 - 12:00 › Low-coverage whole genome sequencing for powerful and cost-effective population assignment - Nina Therkildsen, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:00 - Nicolas Poulet, Office Français de la Biodiversité  
14:00 - 14:30 Applied aspects of conservation genomics (+)  
14:00 - 14:15 › Evaluation of genomic tools to predict individual homozygosity-by-descent for the management of genetic diversity in small populations - Natalia Soledad Forneris, Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R & Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège  
14:15 - 14:30 › New opportunities offered by genomics for the conservation of the Asian elephant: from captivity to the wild - Mirte Bosse, Mirte Bosse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]  
14:30 - 15:00 - Lisa Komoroske, University of Massachusetts Amherst  
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 16:00 Concept and challenges associated with using the genomic offset metric to inform conservation: an example with seed sourcing in red spruce. - Thibaud Capblancq, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine  
16:00 - 17:00 Evolutionary rescue, genomic offset & mutation load (+)  
16:00 - 16:15 › Predicting species invasiveness with genomic data: is Genomic Offset related to establishment probability ? - Louise Camus, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations  
16:15 - 16:30 › Gene flow to the rescue : Using assisted gene flow to save a threatened plant population from extinction - Olivier BRISSET, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation  
16:30 - 16:45 › The burden of mutations: indirect effects of genetic load on fitness through lek attendance - Rebecca Chen, Universität Bielefeld = Bielefeld University  
16:45 - 17:00 › Evolutionary rescue by means of introgression: balancing genetic rescue and swamping - Adèle Erlichman, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia  
17:00 - 17:30 - Jazlyn Mooney, University of Southern California  
18:30 - 20:00 Poster Session I - Poster Session (wine and cheese)  
20:15 - 23:00 Drinks and food at Sofia Bar (20 rue Censier) - The bar is very close to the conference venue and has been privatized for conference participants.Note that food and drink costs will be at the charge of each participant.  

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Time Event (+)
08:45 - 10:15 Poster Session II - Poster Session (coffee and pastries)  
10:15 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:00 Conservation Population Genomics: how the Site Frequency Spectrum (SFS) helps monitoring recent size variation of any species - Guillaume Achaz, Collège de France  
11:00 - 12:00 Inference of recent history (+)  
11:00 - 11:15 › How can we infer recent fragmentation using genetic data? - Rémi Tournebize, Diversity-Adaptation-Development of Plants  
11:15 - 11:30 › Inferring the recent demography of a declining narrow endemic Mediterranean plant from identical-by-descent segments - Océane Eychenne, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier  
11:30 - 11:45 › Simulation-based inference of dispersal, densities and population sizes from genetics data under spatial models of isolation by distance - Raphael Leblois, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations  
11:45 - 12:00 › Genomics sheds light on historical and contemporary environmental changes driving conservation challenges of the Maned Sloth in Brazil's Atlantic Forest - Larissa Arantes, Leibniz Institute for Zoo- and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany, Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (BeGenDiv)  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:00 - John Novembre, University of Chicago  
14:00 - 14:30 Inference of recent history (+)  
14:00 - 14:15 › Inference of demography and introgression in selfing populations using Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) - Lukas Metzger, Technical University of Munich  
14:15 - 14:30 › A Size-determining Supergene Hampers a Vulnerable Population Recovery - Pierre Lesturgie, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, University of Florida [Gainesville]  
14:30 - 15:00 Inference of recent effective population size from high and low coverage DNA data - Pier Palamara, University of Oxford  
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 16:00 New opportunities for population wildlife studies using high-throughput STR genotyping of snow tracks eDNA - Marta De Barba, University of Ljubljana  
16:00 - 17:00 Other genomic resources (+)  
16:00 - 16:15 › A Predictive Model of Biodiversity Resilience to Inform Conservation Strategy - Isaac Overcast, California Academy of Sciences  
16:15 - 16:30 › Exploring eDNA dynamics in waterholes in savanna ecosystems - Tamara Schenekar, University of Graz  
16:30 - 16:45 › The role of epigenomics into conservation: Case studies on the European sea bass - Nuria Sanchez Baizan, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, MARBEC Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, INRAE, Palavas-les-Flots, France  
16:45 - 17:00 › eDNA reveals disappeared amphibians and fungal pathogen co-occurrences in a biodiversity hotspot - Carla Martins Lopes, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) - Rio Claro  
17:00 - 17:30 - Katerina Guschanski, Uppsala University  
17:30 - 17:35 Final Words - Conference Organizers  
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