The Lacawac Sanctuary and Biological Field Station is pleased to announce the Workshop on Ecological Functional Genomics to be held May 25 - 26, 2017. Lacawac Sanctuary is an environmental education center and biological field station located on 550 acres in Northeastern Pennsylvania (Pocono Mountains). This workshop will be hosted by researchers from the Department of Biology, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, and Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics of Temple University as well as the Department of Statistics and Institute of Bioinformatics of University of Georgia.
This two-day workshop will introduce ecologists and evolutionary biologists to computational methods for the comparative analysis of genome sequences. Topics discussed will include finding homologous sequences within a genome and in other species, gene family construction, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree reconstruction, analysis of gene duplication and loss, and tests for selection in protein-encoding genes. The workshop is intended to enable undergraduate and master's level students to ask and answer questions in molecular ecology, such as those focused on genetic underpinnings of phenotypic diversification. The first day of the workshop will have lectures on these various topics, with the second day presenting an opportunity for students and researchers to work with their own datasets together with course instructors. Scholarships and lodging at our historic Great Camp are available. Please visit www.lacawac.org/education for more information and application materials. Contact Dr. Sarah Princiotta, Director of Research and Education for more details (sarah.princio...@lacawac.org)
