The least cost path from landscape genetics to landscape genomics - challenges and opportunities to explore Next Generation Sequencing data in a spatially explicit context
Event details
| Date | 20.06.2018 |
| Hour | 15:00 › 15:45 |
| Speaker | Dr Samuel A. Cushman |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Dr Samuel Cushman is the Director of the Center for Lanscape Science of the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Forest and Woodland Ecosystems, located at Flagstaff, Arizona. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Northern Arizona University. Sam is among the pioneers who established the field of landscape genetics during the last 15 years, and his main interests are on the development of statistics and software for landscape pattern analysis, vegetation distribution, growth, regeneration along biophysical gradients and effects of management, fire and climate regimes on vegetation pattern and process at landscape levels. Sam Cushman is also Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers Evolutionary and Population Genetics. Prior to working for the U.S. Forest Service, Sam Cushman earned a PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, an M.S. in landscape ecology at Western Washington University, and a B.S. in ecology at the Evergreen State College.
Dr Cushman will present the important transition of landscape genetics studies toward landscape genomics, and explore a number of critical related challenges and opportunities. To-date, landscape genetics has generally focused on spatial analyses of small genetic datasets taken from clusters of individuals in putative “populations” or distributed individuals across landscapes. The recent emergence of large-scale genomic datasets containing hundreds of thousands of markers produced by next generation sequencing (NGS) methods poses tremendous opportunity and challenge to the field of molecular ecology.
Read : The least cost path from landscape genetics to landscape genomics
Dr Cushman will present the important transition of landscape genetics studies toward landscape genomics, and explore a number of critical related challenges and opportunities. To-date, landscape genetics has generally focused on spatial analyses of small genetic datasets taken from clusters of individuals in putative “populations” or distributed individuals across landscapes. The recent emergence of large-scale genomic datasets containing hundreds of thousands of markers produced by next generation sequencing (NGS) methods poses tremendous opportunity and challenge to the field of molecular ecology.
Read : The least cost path from landscape genetics to landscape genomics
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- EESS - IIE and Dr Stéphane Joost, LASIG, ENAC, IIE
Contact
- Dr Stéphane Joost, LASIG, ENAC, IIE