Program |
Day 1 | Wednesday 8 October |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Introductions |
10:00 | - Phenotypic variation in natural populations (Chap 2)
- Chromosomal variation & pangenomes (Section 3.1)
- Genetic variation (Chap 3)
- Population genomics (Chap 4)
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| 12:00 | Lunch break (Robertson Tea Room) |
13:00 | - Hardy-Weinberg principle (Chap 5)
- Genetic drift (Chap 6) & effective population size (Chap 7)
- The coalescent (Sections 7.8 & A10)
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| 15:30 | Panel Discussion: Career Paths in Conservation Genetics | Robyn Shaw (UCanberra), Jenny Pierson (AWC), Caroline Chong (Dept Lands, Planning & Environment, NT Gov) will discuss the different opportunities and challenges of working in research (Academia/CSIRO), government (state and federal management), and nonprofit organisations. |
| 16:30 | End of Day 1 |
Day 2 | Thursday 9 October |
9:00 | - Natural selection and adaptation (Chap 8)
- Population subdivision (Chap 9)
- STRUCTURE software
- Local case study | Episodic population fragmentation and how boom-bust population dynamics drive rapid genetic change | Peta Hill & Emily Stringer, UCanberra
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| 12:00 | Lunch break (Robertson Tea Room) *please take everything with you today as there is an undergraduate lecture in the room over the lunch break. |
13:00 | - Multiple loci (Chap 10)
- Exploited populations (Chap 15)
- Climate change (Chap 16) | Jenny Pierson, AWC
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| 16:30 | End of Day 2 |
Day 3 | Friday 10 October |
9:00 | - Inbreeding depression (Chap 17)
- Demography, extinction, and metapopulations (Chaps 18-19)
- Conservation genetics in practice (Chap 24) | Jenny Pierson, AWC
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| 12:00 | Lunch break (Robertson Tea Room) |
13:00 | - Units of conservation (Chap 20)
- Local case study | Genomic Data to monitor Endangered Species: The Case of the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon | Bernd Gruber, UCanberra
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| 16:30 | End of Workshop |
