CeMEB Assembly on 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