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 (http://sara.gilk@alaska.gov) or Kristen Gruenthal (kristen.gruenthal@alaska.gov), if you have... Read More
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
We invite nominations for 2024 inductees into the Genetics Section’s Hall of Excellence. The Hall of Excellence recognizes professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of management or conservation of aquatic species and ecosystems through the application of genetics tools, techniques, or theory. Up to four inductees are entered into the Hall of... Read More
The James E. Wright Graduate Award is presented annually by the Genetics Section at the AFS Annual Meeting and is intended to recognize excellence in graduate-level work in fisheries genetics. The applicant must be a full or affiliate member of the Genetics Section at the time of application. Students are eligible to win the award... Read More
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
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
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
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
The Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Meeting website is now live and ready to take registrations! Please visit https://www.coastwide2023.org/ for more information. Read More
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
