This is an advance notice that next Friday (November 10) there will be a thesis examination (Miika Tapio) and a seminar by the opponent (Mike Bruford).

The seminar by Mike Bruford is at 10.15 in ET232 and the title is "The Orlog Model in conservation genetics: evaluating the past, present and future using molecular tools in a critically endangered great ape population."

at noon in YB210, Miika Tapio will defend his thesis with a topic "Origin and maintenance of genetic diversity in northern European sheep". The thesis includes papers published in Molecular Biology & Evolution, Molecular Ecology and Heredity. Mike Bruford is the opponent.

If you want to look at the activities of Mike Bruford, his home page is at http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/research/biodiversity/staff/mb.html He used to be the head of Conservation Genetis at the Institute of Zoology in London and the editor-in-chief in Animal Conservation and he is in the editorial review board of Molecular Ecology. More at his web site.

Pekka