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 |
13:00 | - Hardy-Weinberg principle (Chap 5)
- Genetic drift (Chap 6) & effective population size (Chap 7)
- The coalescent (Sections 7.8 & A10)
- Panel Discussion: Career Paths in Conservation Genetics - Robyn Shaw (UCanberra), Jenny Pierson (AWC), Caroline Chong (Dept Lands, Planning & Environment, NT Gov)
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| 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 |
13:00 | - Multiple loci (Chap 10)
- Hybridization (Chap 15)
- 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 |
| 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 |
