Organizer: Iliana Baums - Pennsylvania State University
Climate change and global warming combined with increasing extractive use of natural resources has led to the rise of conservation genomic studies. A central question of conservation genomics is whether species can match the pace of change via adaptation or acclimatization. Because there is no consensus on the answer, it has been suggested that the time is right to consider active interventions to speed up the rate of adaptation and acclimatiztion, for example via assisted migration, selective breeding and genetic engineering. In light of the increasing availability of genomic resources for invertebrates, we are inviting contributions that will capitalize on novel technological, methodological and computational developments to address questions of the ongoing rate of adaptation and acclimatization, the role of hybridization in rapid adaptation, the scale of gene flow among populations, changes in host-symbiont interactions and the feasibility of active interventions to conserve marine species.
Climate change and global warming combined with increasing extractive use of natural resources has led to the rise of conservation genomic studies. A central question of conservation genomics is whether species can match the pace of change via adaptation or acclimatization. Because there is no consensus on the answer, it has been suggested that the time is right to consider active interventions to speed up the rate of adaptation and acclimatiztion, for example via assisted migration, selective breeding and genetic engineering. In light of the increasing availability of genomic resources for invertebrates, we are inviting contributions that will capitalize on novel technological, methodological and computational developments to address questions of the ongoing rate of adaptation and acclimatization, the role of hybridization in rapid adaptation, the scale of gene flow among populations, changes in host-symbiont interactions and the feasibility of active interventions to conserve marine species.