Upcoming Conferences
American Genetic Association Annual Symposium 2009
"The Genetics and Genomics of Environmental Change"
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
8-11 June 2009
Overview : Program : Invited Speakers : Travel : Lodging : AGA : Funding
Overview of the Symposium
Environmental change has been a constant challenge for all organisms in the history of life on earth. In the tens of thousands of years since the last glacial maximum, organisms have been forced to adapt to a changing climate. The striking environmental variation we observe from the poles to the equator, from season to season, and from day to night have been met by both physiological and evolutionary adaptations that enable organisms to survive and reproduce. In recent years there has been growing interest and concern over how humans are imposing environmental change on the planet, and how organisms are responding to that change. Environmental change means very different things to different biologists, yet few would deny that the genetic and genomic mechanisms of adaptation to this change are central problems in biology.
The goals of the AGA Symposium for 2009 are to examine environmental change from the perspective of genetics and genomics. Leading researchers in evolutionary, population, and quantitative genetics will discuss how these fields integrate with ecological and geological perspectives on climate change. The symposium will run over three days, with morning and afternoon sessions featuring invited speakers, and an evening poster session that is open to all attendees. Sessions will be reserved for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to present their work, as selected from the list of poster abstracts.
The conference will be held at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island. A clambake at the Blithewold mansion on the shores of Narragansett Bay will be held on the second evening and provides an opportunity for meeting attendees to converse in a relaxed and pastoral setting.
Some funds will be available to graduate students and postdocs on a competitive basis to defray the cost of attending the meeting.
The AGA Symposium is organized by David Rand
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Symposium Program
Monday June 8, 2009
12pm – 6pm: Arrival, Registration
6:30pm – 8:00pm: Opening Reception
Tuesday June 9, 2009
Morning: Clinal variation and environmental gradients
Afternoon: Experimental evolution and environmental stress
Dinner: on your own in Providence
8pm – 11pm: Poster Session
Wed June 10, 2009
Morning: Environmental genomics of natural and human stressors
Afternoon: Paleontological genetics of climate change
Dinner: Clambake at Blithewold Mansion on Narragansett Bay, Bristol, RI
Thursday June 11, 2009
Morning: Genotype by environment interactions
Afternoon: Predicting evolutionary responses to climate change
Mid afternoon: Departure
Bill Bradshaw, University of Oregon
John Colbourne, University of Indiana
George Gilchrist, College of William and Mary
Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford University
Ary Hoffmann, University of Melbourne/CEASAR
Trudy Mackay, North Carolina State University
Ted Morgan, Kansas State University
Margie Oleksiak, University of Miami
Outi Savolainen, University of Oulu
Paul Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania
Annie Schmitt, Brown University
Jay Storz, University of Nevada
Andrew Whitehead, Louisiana State University
Air Travel is very convenient, through Providence's T.F. Green Airport, about 10 minutes from Providence: http://www.pvdairport.com/
Directions to Brown University can be found here: http://www.brown.edu/web/about/visit
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A block of rooms have been reserved at the Providence Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence. Please mention the American Genetics Association Conference when making your reservation.
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http://www.providencebiltmore.com/
On campus lodging will also be available at Brown University in residence halls. For more information, please email conference_services@brown.edu.
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