Symposium number: 09

Title: NEW TOOLS AND CONCEPTS IN AVIAN CONSERVATION GENETICS

Principal organizer: Gernot Segelbacher
MPI Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Schlossallee, D-78315 Radolfzell, Germany
email: segelbac@orn.mpg.de

Second organizer: Jacob Höglund
EBC, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, SE 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden

First keynote speaker: Stuart Piertney
University Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
Title of first keynote paper: Avian conservation genetics in the era of genomics

Second keynote speaker: Lukas Keller
University Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Title of second keynote paper: Genetic consequences of small population size in birds

Contributed talks

Symposium description: Molecular techniques are currently used widely to infer kinship, to study in-breeding and to estimate dispersal and connectivity between populations; so molecular methods have become standard in genetic studies of threatened populations. At the same time, the number of studies using molecular markers to address the diverse problems involved is increasing rapidly; and these studies can vary in the choice of marker systems and analytical tools according to the problem.
In this symposium we will review recent methodological advances in molecular studies of bird populations and discuss how different techniques and methods affect conclusions relating to the conservation genetics of birds. Our aim is to bring together researchers working on different species with different methods to share knowledge of recent methodological and statistical developments. We are particularly interested in bringing together work using neutral markers and research investigating genes/traits under selection.

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