Day Two

Thursday, 5 April 2001

American Museum of Natural History Kaufmann/Linder Theaters (77th Street Entrance)

8:00 a.m.
Registration		  

9:00 a.m.
Welcome: Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, American Museum of Natural History

Introduction: George Amato (Moderator), Director for Conservation Genetics,Wildlife Conservation Society		  

 

Part I
Setting the Stage: The Role and Promise of Conservation Genetics

9:15 a.m.
Extinction Crises and Loss of Genetic Diversity
William Conway, Senior conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society		  

9:40 a.m.
Species Conservation and the New Genomic Technologies
Stephen J. O'Brien, Chief, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute		  

10:05 a.m.
Ellen V. Futter, President, American Museum of Natural History
James M. Large, Jr. Acting President, Wildlife Conservation Society		  

10:15 a.m.
Neutral, Detrimental, and Adaptive Genetic Variation in Conservation Genetics
Phil Hedrick, Ullman Professor, Department of Biology, Arizona State University		  

10:40 a.m.
Biodiversity, Genetic Diversity, and Conservation
Barbara A. Schaal, Professor, Evolutionary and Population Biology, Washington University 		 

11:05 a.m.
Panel Discussion (Conway, Hederick, O'Brien, Schaal)		  

 

Part II
Genetic Threats to Small Populations

11:30 a.m.
Moderator: Don J. Melnick, Director, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University		  

11:35 a.m.
Genetics and Extinction in Fragmented Populations
Kent Holsinger, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut 		 

12:00 p.m.


Stopping Evolution: Genetic Management of Captive Populations
Robert C. Lacy, Population Geneticist, Department of Conservation Biology, Chicago Zoological Society

  

12:25 p.m.
Lunch		  

2:00 p.m.
Finding Families in the Field: Genetic Methods for Studying Breeding Biology
Mary V. Ashley, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago 		 

2:30 p.m.
Range Collapses and the Loss of Genetic Variation within Species
James Gibbs, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Forest Biolog, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse		  

2:55 p.m.
Panel Discussion (Ashley, Gibbs, Holsinger, Lacy) 		 

 

Part III
Conservation Genetics: What Should We Conserve?

3:20 p.m.
Moderator: Howard Rosenbaum, Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society 		 

3:25 p.m.
Units In Conservation Genetics: What Is Useful?
Craig Moritz, , Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley 		 

3:50 p.m.


Recent Character Fixation in the Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle: Implications for the Phylogenetic Species Criterion
Paul Z. Goldstein, Assistant Curator, Division of Insects, Field Museum

  

4:15 p.m.

Maintaining Populations as Functioning Elements of Their Ecosystem: The Role of Management Units
Barbara L. Taylor, Conservation Biologist, National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center

 		 

4:40 p.m.
Species as Taxa: The Units of Biological Diversity and Conservation
Joel Cracraft, Curator, Ornithology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History 		 

5:05 p.m.
Panel Discussion (Cracraft, Goldstein, Moritz, Taylor) 		 

 

Central Park Zoo

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Poster Session Ð Presentation of new research and case studies (Gallery)
Reception follows (Tropic Zone) 		 
 

Home | Center Programs | Publications | News & Events | Features| Museum Home

 

© 2001, American Museum of Natural History