OOS 10
Ecological Genomics As an Emerging Field: Opportunities for Non-Model Organisms

Tuesday, August 12, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
304/305, Sacramento Convention Center
Organizer:
Melis Akman, UC Davis
Co-organizer:
Andrew M. Latimer, University of California Davis
Moderator:
Andrew M. Latimer, University of California Davis
Since the introduction of molecular tools to the field of ecology some three decades ago, genetic approaches have been widely used to address questions related to kinship, migration, dispersal, population biology, local adaptation and phylogeographic patterns. With the recent advances in sequencing technologies, this research has developed into a new and promising sub discipline called ecological genomics. This field uses next-generation sequencing to explore the relationships between genotypic and phenotypic variation and between this variation and fitness in varying environments. Most recently, population level studies have become possible for both model and non-model organisms. We are increasingly able to dissect genetic basis of adaptations to various conditions and test how the genetic variation changes and shapes phenotypes as a result of ecological and evolutionary processes. Accordingly, this session will be devoted to recent studies in ecological genomics field using ecologically interesting non-model organisms from oceans to mountains. With a broad range of well-established scientists working on various organisms, this session will cover how genomes of various organisms, populations and communities change with environmental variation, and how these changes are reflected in organisms’ trait variation.
8:40 AM
 The genetic architecture underlying nematode responses to grassland soil bacteria and its effects on fitness
Vinod Mony, Kansas State University; Michael A. Herman, Kansas State University
9:00 AM
 Evaluating the efficacy of the RADseq method for use with historic specimen to explore long-term changes in the population genomics of a butterfly hybrid zone
Sean F. Ryan, University of Notre Dame; Michael Fontaine, University of Notre Dame; Scott J. Emrich, University of Notre Dame; Michael E. Pfrender, University of Notre Dame; Jessica J. Hellmann, University of Notre Dame
9:40 AM
10:10 AM
 Genetic basis of local adaptations in the South African shrub Protea repens
Melis Akman, UC Davis; Andrew M. Latimer, University of California Davis
10:30 AM
 Unearthing patterns of below ground tropical tree fine root diversity and abundance through DNA metabarcoding
F. Andrew Jones, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Brant Faircloth, UCLA; Jeffrey A. Wolf, UCLA; Stephen P. Hubbell, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
10:50 AM
 Genetic differentiation for morphological and DNA sequence polymorphisms among species-wide seedling populations of a foundation California oak, Quercus lobata, grown in a common garden
Victoria L. Sork, University of California, Los Angeles; Paul Gugger, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; Ana L. Albarrán-Lara, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; Juan Manuel Peñaloza-Ramírez, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; Christina T. Liang, USDA Forest Service; Annette Delfino Mix, USDA, PSW, Institute of Forest Genetics; Jessica W. Wright, Conservation of Biodiversity
11:10 AM
 Early signs of post-vaccination change in the USA rotavirus population through mutation, migration and shifting prevalence
Daniel Zinder, University of Michigan; Robert J. Woods, University of Michigan; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute