AGA2021 – Conservation Genomics: Current Applications & Future Directions Videos

President's Introduction

Dr. Kelly Zamudio

Conservation Genomics: A call to action

Dr. Lisette Waits

Leveraging facultative symbioses and genomic tools to understand coral bleaching

Dr. Sarah Davies

Genomic approaches for guiding a transition from place-based to climate-based conservation management

Dr. Sally Aitken

Genomic adaptation to anthropogenic change: mechanisms, consequences and applications

Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton

Leveraging haplotypes in local adaptation with migration in a wood frog metapopulation

Dr. Nathaniel Edelman

Synthesis: Aitken, Davies, Campbell-Staton, Edelman

Improving design and implementation of genetic rescue strategies with genomics

Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick

Evolutionary potential and extinction risk: managing for resilience in an endangered songbird

Dr. Brenna Forester

Translating genomic research into the conservation of Aotearoa's endangered bird

Dr. Lara Urban

The gift that keeps on giving--the rapid evolution of genomic solutions to conservation problems in Chinook salmon

Dr. Mariah Meek

Exploring genomic determinants of fitness: a pedigree-informed design

Dr. Avril Harder

Synthesis: Fitzpatrick, Forester, Urban, Meek, Harder

Chronic wasting disease and two protected white-tailed deer subspecies

Dr. Tolulope Perrin-Stowe

PacBio and chestnut blight biocontrol: population genomics of natural RNA virus infections

Dr. Deborah Leigh

Using genomics to understand dynamics of the invasive Hawaiian avian malaria system: the more things change, the more they change

Dr. Rob Fleischer

Genomic adaptation to chytridiomycosis in natural populations of a North American amphibian

Dr. Anna Savage

Determining the genetic mechanisms underlying host response to Snake Fungal Disease using experimental transcriptomics

Dr. Samarth Mathur

Synthesis: Leigh, Fleischer, Perrine-Stowe, Savage, Mathur

Using Population Genomics and Local Government Partnerships to Update the Conservation Status of Rare Plants throughout Pennsylvania

Dr. Tanisha Williams

Evolutionary and conservation outcomes of a recent invasion on the Galápagos

Dr. Matt Gibson

Can genomics help save California’s biodiversity? The California Conservation Genomics Project

Dr. Brad Shaffer

The Bird Genoscape Project: harnessing the power of genomics to advance migratory bird conservation

Dr. Kristin Ruegg

Spatial variation in population genomic responses to 125 years of anthropogenic change within a tidal marsh songbird

Dr. Phred Benham

Synthesis: Gibson, Shaffer, Williams, Benham, Ruegg

Using genomics to assess patterns in the timing of migration in a migratory songbird

Taylor Bobowski

Conservation and immunogenomics of the endangered white-winged duck

Dr. Peri Bolton

The effects of plant inbreeding on the legume-rhizobia mutualism

Isabela Lima Borges

Genomic insight into the demographic history and structure of the grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)

Celine Carneiro

Winter snowfall drives adaptive genetic variation in North America’s highest elevation breeding bird

Matt DeSaix

Reduced representation sequencing to understand the evolutionary history of Torrey pine

Lionell Di Santo

The genomic impact of hybridization in Old World Myotis bats; implications for phylogenomics and conservation

Dr. Nicole Foley

Genetic Monitoring of the Northern Idaho Ground Squirrel: Implications for Species Recovery

Molly Garrett

Tree House Explorer: A Novel Genome Browser for Phylogenomics and Phylogeography

Andrew Harris

Quantifying Impacts of Floodplain Availability on Endangered Populations  of Chinook Salmon 

Sara Hugentobler

Hybridization between overlapping cottontail species in urban areas of Colorado

Kelsie Hunnicutt

Demographic history shapes population genomic structure in long-lived aquatic painted turtles

Dr. Fred Janzen

Gene flow and genomic architecture shape evolution of garter snakes in a fluctuating climate

Dr. Jessica Judson

Understanding the population genetics and demographic history of the threatened Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi)

Dr. Shannon Kieran

Variable Influence of the Environment on the Gene Flow of Imperiled, Native and Invasive Cottontails

Dr. Thomas McGreevey

Combining population genomics and demographic modeling to inform conservation of a threatened migratory bird, the Canada Warbler

Caitlin Miller

The evolutionary consequences of range expansion in an introduced amphibian

Dr. Cinnamon Mittan

Genetic Monitoring of the Endangered Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus Idahoensis):  Past, Present, and Future

Dr. Stacey Nerkowski

Survival in an urban salt marsh: the evolutionary consequences of heavy metal pollution on halophyte Salicornia depressa

Alice Palmer

Evaluating Climate Change Effects on Yellow Warblers Using Telomeres as a Biomarker of Fitness

Marina Rodriguez

Landscape Genetics of Wolverines in Alaska and Yukon

Elise Stacy

Understanding the population genomic structure of rare desert species is vital in low-impact solar energy planning

Miranda Wade

Population connectivity in agricultural landscapes: Land-use effects on northern leopard frog gene flow in the Prairie Pothole Region

Justin Waraniak

Cryptic speciation in California’s rocky intertidal fishes: Family Clinidae

Dan Wright

Subspecies hybridization as a potential conservation tool in species reintroductions

Dr. Shirli Bar-David

Cecal Metagenomics of the Greater Sage-Grouse, Sharp-Tailed Grouse & Prairie Chicken

Madeleine Becker

Evaluating Bd susceptibility over space and time in the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii) in California

Dr. Anat Belasen

Using empirical datasets to quantify uncertainty in inferences of landscape genetic resistance due to variation of individual-based genetic distance metrics 

Dr. Joscha Beninde

The Effect of Temperature on the Viral Load of Panulirus argus Virus 1 (PaV1) in Early Benthic Juvenile Caribbean Spiny Lobsters, Panulirus argus 

Amara Davis

Dispersal and Connectivity in a Rare Species of Anemonefish (Premnas biaculeatus) with Applications to Conservation

Kyra Fitz

Genome-wide markers reveal differentiation between and within the cryptic sister species, sunset and vermilion rockfish

Dr. Gary Longo

Genetic method for detection of recent population subdivisions

Dr. Gabe O'Reilly

Genomic stability through time despite decades of exploitation in cod on both sides of the Atlantic

Dr. Malin Pinsky

A simulation-based evaluation of methods and sampling schemes for detecting recent population declines

Dr. Brendan Reid

Determining eDNA shedding and degradation rates for freshwater mussels

Dannise Ruiz Ramos

Genome-wide SNPs clarify a complex radiation and support recognition of an additional cat species

Fernanda Trindade

A Ne port in the storm: genetic diversity in BC reforestation

Hayley Tumas

Evolution of local adaptations under genetic rescue is determined by mutational load and polygenicity

Yulin Zhang

Extreme mitonuclear discordance in trilling chorus frogs in Canada

Ying Chen