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Recent Advances in Conservation Genetics, also known as ConGen, has been directed by Dr. Stephen J. O’Brien, sponsored by the American Genetic Association (AGA), and taught by many renowned scientists from around the world for more than two decades. The course participants will learn the methods, interpretation, and applications of molecular genetic analyses for conservation of endangered species. They will also share a variety of their personal experiences in this important field.
ConGen faculty is an amazing international group of people who will be teaching, sharing their conservation stories, and interacting with students during the course.
ConGen participants are conservation scientists representing academia, government, NGOs, and industries studying the genetics of endangered species. Applicants should be conservation-minded scientists (advanced graduate students, post-docs, teachers, and researchers with advanced degrees) from academia, government, NGOs, or industry who study the genetics of endangered species and apply the knowledge gained from this course to the conservation of such species.
The application process is now closed.
ConGen Board
Stephen J. O’Brien
ConGen Chief and Founder, Professor and Research Director, NOVA Southeastern University, FLORIDA, USA, Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
Laurie Marker
Laurie Marker, Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Ochivarango, NAMIBIA
Cindy Harper
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
Emma Teeling
Founding Director of the Centre for Irish Bat Research at University College Dublin (UCD), IRELAND
ConGen Executive Committee
Taras K. Oleksyk
ConGen Co-Director, Associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, MICHIGAN, USA
Laurie Goodman
ConGen Co-Director, Editor-in-Chief, GigaScience, Oxford University Press and the Beijing Genomics Institute; Publishing Director for GigaScience Press, PRC
Klaus P. Koepfli
ConGen Co-Director, Senior Research Scientist, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, VIRGINIA, USA
Eduardo Eizirik
ConGen Co-Director, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biology, Escola de Ciências, PUCRS, BRAZIL
Anne Schmidt-Küntzel
ConGen Co-Director, Director for Animal Health and Research at Cheetah Conservation Fund, NAMIBIA