Next offered Fall 2012 at UC Davis

Applied Ecological Genetics
Genetics for Ecology, Health, and Conservation
of Natural Populations

ECL242/PHR242
3 units
Fall 2012 Wed and Fri 10:00-11:50am

Graduate students are invited!

For students interested in learning how to use genetics to answer important conservation and ecological research questions

Invited: students in any graduate group including Animal Behavior, Animal Biology, Animal Behavior, Anthropology, Avian Sciences, Comparative Pathology, Ecology, Entomology, Epidemiology, Forensic Science, Genetics, Masters of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Plant Science, Population Biology, and others.

Email the instructor, Holly Ernest for more information.

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Texts - to be announced

Past years we used:
1) Trevor Beebee and Graham Rowe.
An Introduction to Molecular Ecology. 2nd edition
Oxford Press. 2008.

Available at UCD main book store and book sellers such as Amazon.

2) Frankham, Ballour, Briscoe.
Introduction to Conservation Genetics. 2nd edition.
Cambridge Univ. Press. 2009

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Topics

• Study design and sampling strategies
• Molecular tools for ecology
• Genetics of endangered species and invasive species
• Introduction to statistical analysis of ecological genetic data
• Molecular identification of individuals, parents, kinship, populations, species
• Conservation genetics; landscape genetics
• Population genetics and phylogeography for ecology
• Specialized ecological genetics: disease ecology genetics, microbial genetics, immunogenetics, and more.

Sessions in computer lab, discussion, and lecture; surveying the breadth of ecological genetics

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For graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are looking for an introduction to the how, when, where, why's of applications of genetics to ecological questions.

• Learn how you can use genetic tools for graduate research and applied conservation
• Get a great foundation in ecological genetics to support future careers (wildlife biology, resource management, academic positions, state-federal jobs, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), etc.) - even if you may not be actively planninglaboratory work - this course is good for both "lab rats" and "non-lab rats".