Symposium in the context of the International Conference on Island biology
(La Réunion, 8-13 July 2019)
SYMPOSIUM TITLE
Synthesizing island biodiversity theory for community-wide genetic data
ORGANISERS
Hélène Morlon (CNRS, France) and Brent Emerson (CSIC, Spain)
Synthesizing island biodiversity theory for community-wide genetic data
ORGANISERS
Hélène Morlon (CNRS, France) and Brent Emerson (CSIC, Spain)
Rapid developments in high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies are
currently transforming island biodiversity research. The community-wide
genetic datasets that are being accumulated offer unprecedented
opportunities to integrate insights from ecological and evolutionary
theory for a better understanding of island biodiversity dynamics.
However, such a synthesis is currently hindered by insufficient
coordination among empirical biologists and theoreticians. This
symposium will bring together key researchers in the area of
biodiversity modelling and theory and empirical island biologists who
are currently collecting community-wide genetic data, with the aim to
(i) review the main models and analytical tools available for studying
island biodiversity dynamics from community-wide genetic data, (ii)
identify the models and analytical tools that are missing for developing
a unified theory of island biodiversity dynamics informed by
community-wide genetic data, and (iii) devise a strategy for developing
these models and analytical tools in future.
The symposium fits within the objectives of a European-funded Twinning Project entitled “Island Biodiversity Genomics” (iBioGen) that aims to unify data collection across Island Genomic Observatories and to develop models adapted to the interpretation of this data in order to improve our understanding of the processes that shape the diversity and dynamics of island communities. The symposium will be sponsored by iBioGen, which will cover partially the travel expenses of the speakers.
The symposium fits within the objectives of a European-funded Twinning Project entitled “Island Biodiversity Genomics” (iBioGen) that aims to unify data collection across Island Genomic Observatories and to develop models adapted to the interpretation of this data in order to improve our understanding of the processes that shape the diversity and dynamics of island communities. The symposium will be sponsored by iBioGen, which will cover partially the travel expenses of the speakers.
Speakers
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Rosemary Gillespie
University of California, Berkeley, USA Origins of Diversity on Islands: The Nexus of Ecology and Evolution in Community Assembly |
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Isaac Overcast
City College of New York, USA Island biogeography and the distribution of genetic variation in ecological communities |
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Hélène Morlon
Institut de biologie de l'ENS, France Assessing the drivers of biodiversity patterns using environmental DNA data: macroecology and macroevolution of the oceanic plankton |
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Benoît Perez-Lamarque
Institut de biologie de l'ENS, France Diversifying as a holobiont: macroevolutionary patterns of microbiota in an island archipelago |
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Paula Arribas
IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife, Spain Whole-community assembly from metabarcoding data reveals the structure of the soil mesofauna at multiple genetic levels and spatial scales |
