[Coral-List] Funding Available - ICRS Mini Symposium 6 "Ecological and evolutionary genomics of coral reef organisms"

[Monica Medina]

  Dear Colleagues:




We would like to announce the availability of partial funding for  
participants in Mini-Symposium 6, "Ecological and evolutionary  
genomics of coral reef organisms", being held at the 11th ICRS in  
Fort Lauderdale, July 7th-11th 2008. Preference will be given to  
students and participants from developing countries. Interested  
parties should contact one of the session organizers listed at the  
bottom of this email.



We will have five invited speakers:



Dr. Ove Huegh-Guldbergh, University of Queensland.

  “Gene expression in Symbiodinium under stress”



Dr. Forest Rohwer. San Diego State University

"Coral Reef Metagenomics"



Dr. Sandie Degnan, University of Queensland.

  “Settling on the right genes: functional genomic approaches to  
evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrate larval settlement”



Dr. Cheryl Woodley. DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS

TBD



Dr. David Miller. James Cook University.

TBD



We welcome abstract submissions on these topics as well as all  
aspects of “Ecological and evolutionary genomics of coral reef  
organisms”.



We expect to have a long informal discussion at the end of the  
session to discuss different aspects of genome science of benefit to  
the coral reef community. Interested parties should also contact the  
organizers directly to add your topic to the agenda.



When submitting your abstracts, please use the session code: Mini- 
Symposium 6. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2007.



For abstract submission, registration, and other information, please  
visit:

http://www.nova.edu/ncri/11icrs/





Mini-Symposium 6

“Ecological and evolutionary genomics of coral reef organisms”



Co-conveners:

Monica Medina <mmedina at ucmerced.edu>

Mary-Alice Coffroth <coffroth at bio.buffalo.edu>

Jodi Schwarz <joschwarz at vassar.edu>



If you know of anyone who might be interested who might not receive  
this notice, please feel free to pass it along.  We look forward to  
your participation.  If you have any questions, please feel free to  
contact us.

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Monica Medina
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
mailing address: 4225 Hospital Rd, Atwater CA 95301-5142
tel: 209-228-7863
fax: 209-228-4060
mmedina at ucmerced.edu
http://qsb.ucmerced.edu/faculty/mmedina/lab/
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