Conferences
Greetings salmonid geneticists and friends! The next Coastwide Salmonid Genetics meeting will be held 18-21 June 2018 in Mukilteo, Washington, right on the Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. The formal science talks will begin Tuesday morning (19 June) and go through Thursday noon (21 June), with an informal gathering planned for Monday evening as... Read More
We hope everyone had a great AFS conference this year! In conjunction with the annual meeting, the Genetics Section Business Meeting was held on August 21, 2017; we hope you were able to attend. Please click this link if you are interested in reading a PDF of the Section Business Meeting minutes. Read More
The Genetics Section Business Meeting time has been changed to 5:30 on 21 August 2017 but the place remains the same: Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina, Meeting Room 2. Please see our previous post for more details and a map. The Genetics Section Social will be held after the Section Business Meeting at The... Read More
AFSGS members attending the meeting in Tampa, please note that there has been a room change for the Genetics Section Business Meeting on the evening of Monday the 21st. The meeting is at 5pm at the Marriott (700 South Florida Avenue) across the road from the convention center. The meeting will now be held in... Read More
Greetings – We are excited to host the 13th International Coregonid Symposium in Bayfield, Wisconsin, and welcome abstract submissions for both oral and poster presentations. Please visit our website (www.coregonid2017.com) to submit an abstract and to find more information on the host city and the symposium program. All abstracts must be submitted online prior to... Read More
The AFS Genetics Section is sponsoring a travel award to the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Annual Symposium on “Fish, Genes and Genomes” to be held in Bangor, North Wales, UK, from 18-22 July 2016! Please download the eligibility requirements and application guidelines: (link removed). Please also visit the symposium website for additional conference... Read More
The AFS 2016 meeting will be here before you know it. The Genetics Section is always interested in sponsoring symposia. So, please consider organizing one this year. The Section Excomm is always ready and willing to help in any way we can. Have a great holiday and we hope to see you in Kansas City!... Read More
Dear colleagues, We are soliciting speakers for a special session to be held next February at the Aquaculture 2016 conference in Las Vegas, NV, focused on “Managing the Genetic Risk of Escapes from Aquaculture.” Based on mutual interest in exploring the genetic benefits and risks associated with aquaculture, experts in the United States, Canada, and... Read More
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Our AFS symposium, genomics of adaptation in natural populations, was accepted and we’d like to thank those that expressed interest and contributed titles. The next step for those that would like to present is to submit a talk through the AFS meeting website (http://2015.fisheries.org/). The final date for submissions through the... Read More
Contact Garrett McKinney (gjmckinn@uw.edu) by January 14 if interested in presenting. Abstract: Rapid advances in genomics are providing unprecedented opportunities to improve our understanding of the amount, distribution and functional significance of genetic variation in natural populations and its dynamics over ecologically relevant time. At the same time that analyses on a genomic scale are... Read More
