Workshop on Genetics and Genomics of Speciation
| Titel: | Workshop on Genetics and Genomics of Speciation |
| Kategorie: | Anlass von Dritten |
| Beginn: | 26. März 2013 |
| Ende: | 29. März 2013 |
| Ort: | Eawag Kastanienbaum |
| Seeheim | |
| Leitung: | Prof. Ole Seehausen |
| Organisation: | ESF Networking Program Frontiers in Speciation Research FROSpects |
| Kosten: | 100.00 |
| Download: | als Kalender-Eintrag |
Due to successful integration of molecular population genetics and phylogenetics with ecology and biogeography, speciation research became a very strong branch of evolutionary biology. Now the field is challenged with the need for another newer synthesis that achieves the integration of population genomic with ecological speciation research. Many species differences arise in the late stages of speciation or after speciation is completed. These differences may not tell us much about how speciation happens. For a more complete understanding of the speciation process, speciation has to be studied at different stages in the evolutionary continuum from onset to completion of speciation. To put the new genomic technologies and data analysis methods to optimal use for furthering our understanding of speciation, they need to be strongly integrated with ecology and detailed natural history for every individual case of speciation. This integration is perhaps the most important challenge to speciation research in the next decade. The goal of our workshop is to identify elements required, available and those still lacking for this extended synthesis in speciation research. We wish to identify ways by which such integration will advance testing existing theoretical speciation models, and will inform further theory development.