Welcome to 2007 AGA Symposium

President's Welcome

The availability of genome-sequence data has forever transformed our ability to understand the molecular basis of the evolutionary process, but it also remains true that the mechanisms of evolutionary change ultimately reside at the population-genetic level. Thus, the goal of this conference is to help bring about a synthesis of our understanding of genomic evolution from the standpoint of both population genetics and molecular biology, and to outline the major challenges to the transformation of the descriptive field of comparative genomics into an explanatory field of evolutionary genomics. The meeting will consist of a series of talks by experts in diverse areas of genomics, molecular genetics, and evolutionary genetics, as well as poster and discussion sessions to encourage broad participation. Funds will be made available, on a competitive basis, to defray the costs of student registration.

Conference organized by Michael Lynch and Eva Allen.