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