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 |