Conservation Genetics – GN 450 & 550
Lecture
Tuesday/Thursday 11:45 to 1:00 pm
Syllabus Spring 2020
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Syllabus Handouts
- 1 – Information on the Proposal Project
- 2 – How to write up and present a Research Proposal Project (3a and 3b)
- 3 – Writing Proposal Guidelines
Syllabus Readings
- 1 – How to write an effective manuscript
- 2 – See readings under Genetic Sampling Methods and Genomic Sampling methods in the google drive
- 3 – Genomic Toolkit readings Overall and Local Adaptation
Case Studies
- Case Study I: Information
- Case Study II: Information
- Case Study III: Information
- Case Study IV: Information
Problem Sets
- Problem Set I and Key
- Problem Set 2 and Key
- Problem Set 3 and Key
- Problem Set 4 and Key
Midterm
- Take home midterm and Key
Lecture Resources
- Slides Lecture 1 Introduction to Variation
- Slides for Lecture 2 HWE and Genetic Variation and Lecture 2 notes
- Slides for Lecture 3A Genetic Drift ; Slides for Lecture 3B Genetic Drift & Ne; and Lecture 3A&B Notes
- Slides for Lecture 4 Natural Selection and Lecture 4 Notes
- Slides for Lecture 5A Population Subdivision P1 and Lecture 5A Notes
- Slides for Lecture 5B Population Subdivision P2 and Lecture 5B Notes
- Slides for Lecture 6A Multiple Loci and Lecture 6A Notes
- Slides for Lecture 6B QTL and Lecture Notes QTL
- Slides for Lecture 7 and Lecture 7 Notes Inbreeding
- Slides for Lecture 8A Demography
- Slides for Lecture 8B Metapopulation&Fragmentation&LandscapeGenetics
- Slides for Lecture 9 Hybrids
- Slides for Lecture 10 Invasive Species
- Slides for Lecture 11 Population Genetic Toolkit and Lecture 11 Notes
- Slides for Lecture 12 Population Genomic Toolkit
- Slides for Research Proposal Project
Microsatellite Lab
- Information slides
- Microsatellite Lab & writeup, Microsatellite Lab Key
- Background reading- Burford 2009
- Structure Manual PDF
Wet Labs
- DNA extraction lab
- Genomic library building wetlab
Flounder Genomic Project
- Information slides on the flounder project
- Bioinformatic Lab Slides DAY 1
- Bioinformatic Lab Slides DAY 2
- Flounder popgen background paper – Wang Et Al_2015
- Flounder Bioinformatic Pipeline Lab, Flounder Bioinformatic Pipeline Lab KEY
- Background reading on ddRADseq- Burford Reiskind et al. 2016
- Library building protocol
Research Proposal
- TBA