An amazing group of people will be teaching, sharing their conservation stories and interacting with students during the 10 day course, these will include the following international faculty and speakers:
Course Director
• Stephen J. O’Brien: Chief Scientific Officer at the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics , St. Petersburg State University, RUSSIA
Co-Directors
• Taras K. Oleksyk: Director, Caribbean Genome Center (CGC), and Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, PUERTO RICO
• Klaus Koepfli: Researcher, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA and Senior Fellow, Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, RUSSIA
• Eduardo Eizirik: Associate Professor, Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Faculdade de Biociência, PUCRS, BRAZIL
• Viktor Toth: Senior Researcher, Balaton Limnological Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HUNGARY
International Faculty (Confirmed)
• Scott Baker: Professor and Associate Director, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, OREGON, USA
• Oliver Ryder: Director of Genetics and Kleberg Chair of San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research, CALIFORNIA, USA
• Joan Pontius: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at ESAC Inc, Rockville MARYLAND, USA
• Harris Lewin: Vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Davis, CALIFORNIA, USA
• Dennis Larkin: Reader in Comparative Genomics Veterinary College, London, ENGLAND, UK
• Bridget von Holdt: Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University, NEW JERSEY, USA
• Alfred L. Roca: Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ILLINOIS, USA
• Anne Schmidt-Küntzel: Research Geneticist and Assistant Director for Animal Health and Research, Cheetah Conservation Fund, Otjiwarongo, NAMIBIA
• Emma Teeling: Associate Professor, School of Biology and Environment Science, College Dublin, IRELAND
• Cindy Harper: Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria at Onderstepoor, SOUTH AFRICA
• Rasmus Nielsen: Professor, Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, CALIFORNIA, USA
• Carlos Driscoll: Researcher, National Institutes of Health, MARYLAND, USA
• Tom Gilbert: Professor, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, DENMARK
• Michael Hofreiter: Professor, Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics. Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Potsdam, GERMANY
• Axel Meyer: Professor, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, GERMANY
• Tomàs Marquès-Bonet: ICREA Research Professor at the UPF (University Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona), SPAIN
• Jose Lopez: Professor in the Biology department at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FLORIDA, USA
• Hoelzel, A.R.: Professor in the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, UK
• Matthew Landers : Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, PUERTO RICO
Course Staff
• Andrei Yurchanko: Junior Researcher, Smithsonian Institution and the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State Univeristy, RUSSIA
• Pavel Dobrynin: Junior Researcher, Smithsonian Institution and the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State Univeristy, RUSSIA
• Nikolai Cherkasov: Senior Specialist, Smithsonian Institution and the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State Univeristy, RUSSIA
