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Map showing genetic structure of Baltic Isopod
Population genetic structure of Baltic Isopod, Idotea baltica.
Photo: Elsa Wikander/Azote
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CeMEB Assembly on Seascape Genomics

The focus of this Assembly is on the use and application of seascape genomics methods in order to gain an understanding of connectivity, local adaptation and speciation is the sea. The meeting will combine keynote talks by invited speakers, presentations from CeMEB members, and also time for interesting group discussions on a variety of topics related to seascape genomics.

Wednesday 4th October

10-10.30 – Fika

10.30 - 12.00 Presentations, Big lecture hall

Chair: Pierre De Wit

Welcome and introduction by the CeMEB Steering committee

Invited speaker: Cynthia Riginos - Seascape genomic forays into the biological space-time continuum

12.30 - Lunch

13.30 - 15.00 Presentations, Big lecture hall

Chair: Chloé Robert

  • Sean Stankowski - Whole-genome phylogeography of the intertidal snail Littorina saxatilis
  • James Reeves - Snail-scape: assessing diversity and the role of inversions in Swedish Littorina saxatilis
  • Diego Castillo - Snails are not always slow: a case of local adaptation in less than three decades.(online)
  • Valentina Bernal - Contrasting influence of space, ocean currents and environment on genomic variation in an Antarctic fish (online)

15.00 Coffee & tea

15.30 – 17.30 Group discussions, Big lecture hall

Introduction by Leon Green & Marina Rafajlovic

18.00 - Dinner

19.30 – Mingle & time for unscheduled meetings, Pub, White dormitory 

Thursday 5th October

7:30-08.30 - Breakfast

09.00 - 10.00 Presentations,  Big lecture hall

Chair: Marina Rafajlovic

Invited speaker: Charlotte Berkström - Ecological connectivity and marine protected areas in Swedish Baltic coastal waters

10.00 Fika, including Steering Committe-tea for PhD students

10.45 - 12.15 Presentations, Big lecture hall

Chair: Stefanie Ries

  • Roger Butlin - Fluctuating selection in Littorina hybrid zones
  • Simon Henriksson - Review of connectivity in the Skagerrak
  • Laurent Duchatelet - Convergent evolution of opsins for deep sea bioluminescence
  • Ola Svensson and Lotta Kvarnemo - How sexual and natural selection interact and shape the evolution of nests and nesting behaviour in fishes

12.30 - Lunch  

13.30 – 14.30 Walk & Talk 

14.40 – 15.00 Group discussions,, Big lecture hall

Introduction by Leon Green and Marina Rafajlovic

15.00 Coffee & tea

15.30 – 17.30 Group discussions, Big lecture hall

17.30 - 19.00 Flash talks and poster presentations, Big lecture hall

Chair: Simon Henriksson

Flash talks

  • Jessica Rieder - Seascape genomics: assisting marine biodiversity management by combining genetic knowledge with environmental and ecological information (online)
  • Chloé Robert - Population structure of flat oysters in Sweden
  • Maru Bernal - Linking eelgrass (Zostera marina) sexual reproduction with the environment

Posters

  • Le Quin Choo – poster- Towards identifying the drivers of divergence in an oceanic zooplankton
  • Fabian Gruener – poster - Using seascape genomics to understand natural selection in European shore crabs (Carcinus maenas): The role of temperature and salinity
  • Nauras Daraghmeh – poster - Can large-scale metabarcoding data sets reveal connectivity pathways across the European regional seas?

19.30 Dinner & Pub

Friday 6th October

7:30 - 08.30  Breakfast

09.00 - 10.00 Presentations, Big lecture hall

Chair: Marlene Jahnke

Invited speaker: Jeanine Olsen - Beyond the landscape: Global dispersal of Zostera marina--and how it may connect to restoration and conservation

10.00 Fika

10.30 - 11.30 Presentations, Big lecture hall

Chair: Lara Beckmann

  • Rick Pereyra - Clones on the run
  • Stefanie Ries - Seascape genomics of Scandinavian eelgrass (Zostera marina)
  • Ellika Faust - Navigating the changing seascape: Population-specific responses of clonal eelgrass to climate change (online)

11.30 – 12:30 Group discussions, Big lecture hall

Group discussions, Leon Green and Marina Rafajlovic

12.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.00 Big lecture hall

Summaries of group discussions

14.00 – 14.10 Big lecture hall

Summary of the meeting

Departure Friday

Bus 891 departs from Tjärnö Laboratory at 14.28.
Connection to Gothenburg from Strömstad with bus 871 at 15.20.

More info at Västtrafik