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Workshop Home | Workshop Information | Program | Abstracts | Vancouver Accommodation | Registration
The workshop brought together plant molecular geneticists and molecular evolutionary biologists with plant ecologists and population biologists, as well as plant systematists and evolutionary morphologists. A flood of information from genomics projects and increasingly sophisticated ecological methods now permit an examination of how the genome interacts with ecosystems to create adaptive phenotypes. The workshop used a broad, neutral definition of adaptation as "present utility." The evidence for divergent selection as a mechanism for producing adaptation and the occurrence of non-adaptive variation was also examined. The meeting was intended to provoke discussion and to be a springboard for stimulating new evolutionary science. A symposium volume is planned - this will allow people to be much more discursive and synthetic than would be allowed in the journals. Speakers were encouraged speakers to be genuinely integrative in outlook, and to talk about results relevant to the molecular biology of adaptation as well as the ecology of adaptation, and not to shy away from being interdisciplinary and conceptual. Speakers included: Toby
Bradshaw (University of Washington) To offer talks, please send the title and a short abstract. Full contact details are available here. The final speaker list will be chosen by the organizing committee to encompass the full range of the emerging new discipline. As the scope of the workshop is multi-faceted and interdisciplinary, all participants are invited to place small poster-style items in the BGCPR Reception Centre. These will be available for discussion during social activity. If shortage of space prevents particular talks being given, the area reserved for poster-style items will be available. Venues
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Organizers:
Quentin Cronk (UBC),
Iain Taylor (UBC), Jeannette
Whitton (UBC) |
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