Hi all,

We are writing to encourage you to submit an abstract to the SMBE 2024
Symposium "Spatial Population Genetics: Where Are We Now?"  The abstract
for the symposium is below. This year, SMBE will be held in Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico (https://smbe2024.org/).  Talk abstracts are due by March
15th (https://smbe2024registration.org/abstracts).

Feel free to reach out via email with any questions (bradburd@umich.edu).

Spatial Population Genetics: Where Are We Now?
Symposium #11
Organizers: Gideon Bradburd & John Novembre
Abstract: Geography is fundamental to evolutionary biology because many of
the processes that shape patterns of genetic variation within and between
species are inherently spatial. Although the importance of space to the
study of evolution has been clear from the inception of the field, many of
the early models used for generating predictions or analyzing data in
population genetics assumed discrete, well-mixed populations. In the past
two decades, falling sequencing costs have driven the generation of more
and more datasets with spatially continuous sampling; these datasets, in
turn, have demanded and inspired concomitant advances in the simulation,
analysis, and theory of population genetics in continuous space. The
purpose of this symposium is to highlight recent advances - theoretical,
methodological, and empirical - in spatial population genetics, as well as
to identify key challenges at the expanding wavefront of the field.  Our
confirmed keynote speakers are Alison Feder (University of Washington) and
Andy Kern (University of Oregon).

-Gideon Bradburd

Gideon Bradburd (*he/him*)
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan
genescape.org <http://www.genescape.org/>

Gideon Bradburd <bradburd@umich.edu>

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