Conferences
Genetics Section members, please find attached the meeting minutes for the Section Business Meeting that was held Monday, August 20, 2018, at 5:30 pm in the Atlantic City Convention Center, Room 414. Read More
Section members: Please find attached the agenda for the Section business meeting on Monday, August 20, 2018, at 5:30pm in the Atlantic City Convention Center Room 414. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask, and I hope to see you there. Cheers, Wendylee Stott Research Associate Michigan State University CESU 1451 Green... Read More
Hi Genetics Section Members, […] If you will be attending the conference, you are invited to join the group for dinner after the Genetics Section Business Meeting. The Business Meeting is Monday, Aug 20, at 5:30pm in Convention Center Room 414. After the meeting, we’ll walk as a group to Antonio’s (http://angelosfairmounttavern.com/) for a sit... Read More
Section members: Please note the time and date of the Section’s business meeting. We are meeting on Monday, August 20, from 5:30-6:30pm in Room 414 of the Atlantic City Convention Center. An agenda will be posted in the next 2-3 weeks. Cheers, Wendylee Stott wstott@usgs.gov Read More
Congratulations to this year’s James Wright award winners, Shannon White and Nathaniel Marshall! The awards will be presented at the Genetic Section’s business meeting during the AFS Annual Meeting in Atlantic City. If you are attending, please come to the business meeting to congratulate the winners in person. Thanks also go to the selection committee... Read More
Hello! The registration deadline is approaching. If you haven’t already, please register and send in your abstracts. Registration & Abstracts The deadline is 10 April; you may submit both here. For NOAA employees awaiting group travel approval, please submit your abstract by 10 April; we expect to extend the deadline for NOAA registrants if travel... Read More
Dear Colleagues, We invite you to participate in a symposium at this year’s annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society titled Integration of Genetic Techniques with Quantitative Stock Assessment and Ecological Models for Resolving Fishery Management Issues. The meeting will be held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from August 19-23, 2018. A description of the... Read More
Hello salmonid geneticists and friends! We are pleased to open registration and abstract submission for the 2018 meeting to be held in Mukilteo, Washington, 19-21 June. Please see our updated web[page] for information and links for registration and abstract submission (both due by 10 April) through our partners at the American Fisheries Society Genetics Section.... Read More
AFS Genetic Section Members, We are in the midst of planning a Conservation Genetics and Genomics symposium for the Atlantic City AFS meeting this August. It will be general, something like “Advances in Applications of Conservation Genetics and Genomics to Fisheries”, and meant to include a wide array of topics. We are tying to gauge... Read More
Symposium Title: Novel and Emerging Technologies in Species Identification and Conservation Symposium Abstract: Conservation and management of aquatic organisms and ecosystems rely on a thorough understanding of species’ distribution and/or community composition. However, distributional and compositional data can be difficult to obtain across relevant scales due to limited resources and potential logistical issues associated with... Read More
