Organized by Oliver Ryder (San Diego Zoo), Stephan Schuster (PSU), and Webb Miller (PSU).
| 10:00 | Oliver Ryder (San Diego Zoo) Extinction, conservation, and next generation genome sequencing. |
| 10:30 | Bill Murphy (Texas A&M University) How the Tree of Life informs biodiversity conservation efforts. |
| 11:00 | Ray Bernor (National Science Foundation) The natural history of the equidae: history, evolution, and conservation. |
| 11:30 | Rob Fleischer (Smithsonian Institution) Avian ancient DNA studies. |
| 1:30 | Alex Greenwood (Old Dominion University) Extinctions and introduced pathogens: What might rats and mammoths have in common? |
| 2:00 | Bob Wayne (UCLA) Conservation genomics of canids. |
| 2:30 | Vanessa Hayes (Children's Cancer Institute Australia) Genomic tools and species conservation − the plight of the Tasmanian devil. |
| 3:00 | Devin Locke (Washington University) Applying NextGen sequencing technologies to primate genomics. |
| 3:30 | Tom Brooks (Conservation International) The Anthropocene extinction event: magnitude, phylogeography, geography, causes, consequences, and responses. |
| 4:00 | Alexei Tikhonov (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg)
and Bernard Buigues (International Mammoth Committee, Paris) Permafrost of Siberia and Alaska − the freezer of the genetic material of the Ice Age. |
More information about the Symposium can be found at: http://extinction-workshop.psu.edu
The lectures will be available at:
http://live.libraries.psu.edu
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