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Registration (and more) for Coastwide 2025 is open!

The 2025 Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Conference is being held in Anchorage, AK, from May 12-15, 2025. Registration, abstract submission, event tickets, and The Lakefront room block links are now live on the Genetic Section’s Coastwide landing page: https://units.fisheries.org/genetics/coastwide/. Email coastwide2025@gmail.com or contact (ADF&G Gene Conservation Lab leadership) with questions. Hope to see you there! Read More

Save-the-Date for Coastwide 2025!

Dear AFS Genetics Section Members, Mark your calendars – the Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Meeting returns to Alaska in 2025! Coastwide will be held in Anchorage, AK, from May 12-15, 2025, at The Lakefront Anchorage. Details as they become available will be posted to the Section’s Coastwide webpage. Please contact Sara Gilk-Baumer (sara.gilk@alaska.gov) or Kristen Gruenthal... Read More

AFS Genetics Section Business Meeting

AFS Genetics Section members: Please join us for the annual genetics section business meeting, which will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, 28 August, at 9am HST/12pm PDT/3pm EDT. There will also be an in-person section awards recognition event in Honolulu, with scheduling details forthcoming. Please contact Jared Homola if you have any questions and... Read More

AFS Genetics Section Business Meeting

The AFS genetics section will be hosting our annual business meeting next week during the national meeting in Grand Rapids. The meeting is scheduled for noon-1:00 pm EDT on Monday, August 21, and will have in-person and virtual options for attendance. The in-person meeting will be held at DeVos Place – Grand Gallery Overlook G.... Read More

Genetics Section Early Career Award 2023

Calling for nominations for the Genetics Section Early Career Award 2023! Submit nominations by 30 June 2023 to Kerry Reid, Committee Chair, and cc’ Committee Members Craig Stockwell, Trevor Krabbenhoft, and Elizabeth Mandeville. Please see the Genetics Section Early Career Award Announcement 2023 or visit our Early Career Award webpage for details. Read More

Coastwide Student Travel Scholarships

AFS Genetics Section Members: The planning committee of the Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Conference is awarding 4 student travel scholarships ($500) for the 2023 meeting in Boise, ID. Applicants must be currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students that plan to attend the conference. We also highly encourage applications from students from historically underrepresented groups in the... Read More

Attn: Grad students and postdocs — Symposium submission deadline fast approaching!

Dear AFS Genetics Section member graduate students and postdocs, The abstract submission deadline is fast approaching (14 April 2023) for a symposium entitled, “Highlighting the Cutting Edge: Graduate and Early Career Research in Genetics-Genomics”at the AFS Annual Meeting. Additional information and contacts are listed below. Please consider participating! Sponsors: American Fisheries Society Genetics Section and... Read More

Advances in Salmonid Genetics – Special Issue for Coastwide 2023

Section members are invited to contribute a paper to a Special Issue of Evolutionary Applications that will highlight “Advances in Salmonid Genetics” presented at the Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Meeting (June 26-29, 2023). See the Special Issue [Announcement and Invitation] for further details and contact information! Please also check out the Coastwide page for periodic updates... Read More

AFS Genetics Section Early Career Award 2022 Call for Nominations

The AFS Genetics Section Early Career Award committee is soliciting nominations for our 2022 award. Details may be found in the PDF announcement or on the Early Career Award webpage. Nominations are due 15 July 2022 to the award committee. Please contact Craig Stockwell Craig Stockwell, Emily Lescak, Kerry Reid, or Trevor Krabbenhoft with any... Read More