EVOREP-Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Reproductive Isolation
Final Report Abstract
The EuroEEFG closing conference was organized to report on the research carried out within EuroEEFG to the members of the programme and to the outside scientific world. The programme consisted of keynote, contributed talks by EuroEEFG members as well as 2 poster sessions around three major themes being; Evolution and Adaptation, Response to the Environment, and Communities and Ecosystem functioning. The keynote talks as well as the research presented by the various CRP’s in the programme were all centered around the “the genetic basis of adaptation, speciation and evolution”. The strength of the conference, as also stated by the world leading scientist in the field of ecological genomics, was the unprecedented amount of genomic work in natural non-model organisms and ecosystems. The quantitative genetic approach taken on complex natural communities is unique and of great value for understanding and managing ecosystems under climate threat. The mix of very diverse scientific disciplines (plant, animal and microbial ecologists) worked out very well and was also noted as being worthwhile continuing on the European level. The large number of PhD students and post-doc present at the conference and their possibilities to present and interact, contributed largely to the education and network building of the young scientist within EuroEEFG. With respect to the latter a very successful course was held during the last 2 days of the conference in which 10 EuroEEFG members were educated in the annotation of microbial genomes using the Microscope platform, as organized by teachers from Genoscope, Evry, France.
