COS 132 - Genetics And Molecular Techniques 1

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  Environmental DNA survey captures patterns of fish and invertebrate diversity across a tropical seascape
  

  Presenting Author: Bryan N. Nguyen – National Museum of Natural History

  Coauthor: Elaine W. Shen – University of Rhode Island

  Coauthor: Janina Seemann – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Coauthor: Adrienne M. Correa – Rice University

  Coauthor: James L. O'Donnell – University of Washington

  Coauthor: Andrew H. Altieri – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Nancy Knowlton – National Museum of Natural History

  Coauthor: Keith A. Crandall – Computational Biology Institute, The George Washington University

  Coauthor: Scott P. Egan – Rice Univeristy

  Coauthor: W. Owen McMillan – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Coauthor: Matthieu Leray – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  Using conservation genetics to inform reintroduction of the endangered Mottled Duskywing (Erynnis martialis)
  

  Presenting Author: Shayla Kroeze – University of Western Ontario

  Coauthor: Nusha Keyghobadi – University of Western Ontario

  Coauthor: Gard Otis – University of Guelph

  Coauthor: Jessica Linton – Natural Resource Solutions Inc.

  Coauthor: Ryan Norris – University of Guelph

  Coauthor: Adrienne Brewster – Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  Developing the Stress Transcriptional Profiling Chip (STP-Chip): a suite of quantitative gene expression assays to assess fish health and environmental coping capacity
  

  Presenting Author: Shahinur S. Islam – Department of Integrative Biology, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada

  Coauthor: Jennifer D. Jeffery – Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

  Coauthor: Kenneth M. Jeffries, PhD – University of Manitoba

  Coauthor: Daniel D. Heath, PhD – Department of Integrative Biology, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Environmental DNA applications: developing species-specific qPCR assays for New Brunswick freshwater fishes
  

  Coauthor: Scott Pavey – University of New Brunswick

  Presenting Author: Rina Guxholli – University of New Brunswick
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  A shift from sexual to asexual reproduction in a wetland plant: implications for range edge dynamics
  

  Presenting Author: Hana C. Thompson – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Christopher G. Eckert – Queen's University
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  Genomic detection of hybridization in Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia
  

  Presenting Author: Jose A. Aleman – Trent University

  Coauthor: Tulsi Patel – Trent University

  Coauthor: Aaron A. Shafer – Trent University

  Coauthor: Marcel Dorken – Trent University

  Coauthor: Joanna Freeland, n/a – Trent University