Symposium Transcripts
Below are links to the transcripts for the morning and afternoon sessions of days two and three of the "conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics" symposium. The symposium was held April 4th – April 6th. 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
You may view the transcripts on line or download the PDF Version.
Day Two
Thursday, 5 April 2001
9:00 am: Welcome/Introduction,
Michael Novacek, George Amato — text
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Part I Setting the Stage: The Role and Promise of Conservation Genetics
9:15 am: Extinction Crisis and Loss of Genetic Diversity / William Conway
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9:40 am: Species Conservation and the New Genomic Technologies / Stephen
J. O'Brien — text
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10:05 am: Ellen V. Futter, President, American Museum of Natural History
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10:05 am: James M. Large, Jr., Acting President, Wildlife Conservation
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10:15 am: Neutral, Detrimental and Adaptive Genetic Variation in Conservation
Genetics / Phil Hedrick — text • pdf
10:40 am: Biodiversity, Genetic Diversity and Conservation / barbara Schaal
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11:05 am: Panel Discussion (Conway, Hendrick, O'Brien, Schaal) —
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Part II Genetic Threats to
Small Populations
11:30 am: Don J. Melnick, Moderator — text
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11:35 am: Genetics and Extinction in Fragmented Populations / Kent Holsinger
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12:00 pm: Stopping Evolution: Genetic Management of Captive Populations
/ Robert C. Lacy — text • pdf
2:00 pm: Finding Families in the Field: Genetic Methods for Studying Breeding
Biology / Mary V. Ashley — text
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2:30 pm: Range Collapses and the Loss of Genetic Variation within Species
/ James Gibbs — text
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2:55 pm: Panel Discussion (Ashley, Gibbs, Holsinger, Lacy) — text
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Part III Conservation Genetics:
What Should We Conserve?
3:20 pm: Howard Rosenbaum, Moderator — text
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3:25 pm: Units in Conservation Genetics: what is Useful? / Craig Moritz
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3:50 pm: Recent Character Fixation in the Northeastern Beach Tiger : Implications
for the Phylogenetic Species Criterion / Paul Z. Goldstein — text
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4:15 pm: Maintaining Populations as Functioning Elements of Their Ecosystems:
The Role of Management Units / Barbara L. Taylor — text
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4:40 pm: Species as Taxa: The Units of Biological Diversity and Conservation
/ Joel Cracraft — text • pdf
5:05 pm: Panel Discussion (Cracraft, Goldstein, Moritz, Taylor) —
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Day Three
Friday, 6 April 2001
Part IV The Role of Expanding
Technology in Conserving Biodiversity
9:00 am: Rob Desalle,
Moderator — text
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9:05 am: Comparative Genomics and the Conservation of Biodiversity / Judith
A. Blake — text
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9:30 am: Recent Advances in Cloning and its Application in Conservation
Biology / Philip Damiani — text
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9:55 am: Ecological and Evolutionary Issues Posed by Genetically Modified
Fishes / Eric M. Hallerman — text
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10:20 am: Can Our Laws Accomodate the New Conservation Genetics? / Gerald
J. Flattmann, Jr. — text • pdf
10:20 am: Can Our Laws Accomodate the New Conservation Genetics? / Barbara
A. Ruskin — text
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10:45 am: Panel Discussion (Blake, Damiani, Flattmann, Hallerman, Ruskin)
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Part V The Future of Conservation
Genetics
11:10 am: Eleanor Sterling, Moderator — text
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11:15 am: The Value of Genetics in Conservation Biology: Past Success
and Future Trajectories / Steve R. Palumbi — text • pdf
11:40 am: Management of Diversity: A Landscape Approach / John Robinson
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1:20 pm: Conservation and Genome Resource Bakning / Oliver A. Ryder —
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1:50 pm: Conservation Genetics Meets Ecology: Toward a More Integrated
Approach / George Amato — text
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2:15 pm: Panel Discussion (Amato, Palumbi, Robinson, Ryder) — text
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2:40 pm: The History and Purview of Conservation Genetics / John C. Avise
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3:05 pm: Symposium Summary / Rob Desalle — text • pdf
3: 30 pm: Concluding Remarks / George Amato, Eleanor Sterling — text
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