Plan to attend the Gordon Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics! Date: July 10-15, 2011 GRC Location: College of New England, Biddeford Maine
The 2011 Gordon Conference on Evolutionary & Ecological Genomics will present cutting-edge research on using genomics approaches to study adaptation of organisms to changing environments, genome evolution and population genetics, as well as the evolution of complex phenotypes. In particular, several of the talks this year will highlight evidence for evolution at the molecular and phenotypic levels in response to climate change. A diversity of sessions will highlight recent results from natural as well as experimental populations, and will cover both non-model and model species. There will be an exciting balance between ecologists using genomics to study adaptation in rapidly evolving systems, as well as genomicists using large-scale sequence, expression and functional assays to study variation among populations and species. The conveners Loretta Johnson (Kansas State University) and Gretchen Hofmann (UC Santa Barbara) are committed to assembling a diverse conference with a mix of high profile established scientists and as well as post-docs and grad students early in their professional careers. We plan to select some submitted abstracts for invited talks. We are actively applying for funds to allow graduate students and others to attend. Although attendance at Gordon conferences is by application, we intend to admit as many as we can on a first-come-first serve basis. The collegial atmosphere of this Conference, with discussion sessions as well as opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides an avenue for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm and promotes cross-disciplinary collaborations. We hope to see you there, at the College of New England! More information and application and registration information can be found at the Gordon Conference web site http://www.grc.org Confirmed speakers include: PLENARY SPEAKER: Thomas Mitchell-Olds: Advances in the emerging field of ecological and evolutionary genomics GENOMICS OF RAPID EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE Bill Bradshaw (rapid evolution and genetic changes in timing of life history traits in the pitcher plant mosquito), Ary Hoffmann (molecular and genomic evolution of thermal clines in Drosophila) Mike Lynch (mechanisms of evolution at the genomic and phenotypic levels, origins of gene-structural complexity) GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF LOCAL ADAPTATION IN HETEROGENOUS ENVIRONMENTS David Lowry (local adaptation in Mimulus in response to salt and drought), Luciano Matzkin (host adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila), Cynthia Weinig (Molecular evolutionary ecology of plant adaptation to heterogeneous settings) Mark Ungerer (evolutionary genomics of transposable elements in sunflower GENOMIC RESPONSES TO STRESS Dick Roelofs (adaptive variation in response to metals in spring tails) Ana Caicedo (evolutionary genomics of weedy rice, adaptive variation in wild tomatoes in response to environmental stresses) MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND GENOMICS of SPECIES INTERACTIONS Jack Werren (Wolbachia genome evolution, host-Wolbachia interactions) May Berenbaum (ecological genomics of host-plant interactions, genomic ecology of global climate on plant-insect interactions) Ralf Sommer (genetic studies of species interactions and the ecology of Pristionchus nematodes) Mike Herman (ecological genomics of nematode-bacterial interactions) GENETIC BASIS OF ADAPTIVE VARIATION Jim Marden (functional genomics of dispersal and female fecundity in Melitaea cinxia butterfly metapopulations, Hopi Hoekstra (adaptive variation in pigmentation in mice) PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY and GENOTYPE x ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS Puni Jeyasingh (Genes and ecological stoichiometry, eutrophication and microevolutionary change in Daphnia. Louis Bernatchez (population and quantitative genetics, functional genomics, fish populations of conservation concern) -- -- • Loretta Johnson • Associate Professor • Co-Director Ecological Genomics Institute • http://ecogen.ksu.edu/ • Division of Biology • Kansas State University • Manhattan KS 66506-4901 • Office: 785-532-6921 • www.ksu.edu/johnsonlab -- • Loretta Johnson • Associate Professor • Co-Director Ecological Genomics Institute • http://ecogen.ksu.edu/ • Division of Biology • Kansas State University • Manhattan KS 66506-4901 • Office: 785-532-6921 • www.ksu.edu/johnsonlab
