Subject: workshop: Demogenetics in fragmented populations To: jouni.aspi@oulu.fi

Meeting / workshop Demogenetics in fragmented populations

Dates: 14-17. Sept. 2005 Site: La Fouly (VS, Switzerland) http://www.dolent.ch/

Small and fragmented populations incur large viability risks in terms of dynamics (demographic stochasticity, Allee effects) and genetics (genetic drift, inbreeding load). Up to now, analytical models were developed mostly under simple geographic (island or lattice) and demographic (patch occupancy) conditions. But the non-equilibrium dynamics of metapopulations is obviously important, for both practitioners and theoreticians. Recent approaches have succeeded in introducing more realistic features of landscape and demography to investigate their effects on population genetics (e.g. effective population size), population viability (e.g. metapopulation capacity), and their interactions.

We have invited the 6 following people who will present their research and lead discussion groups: Otso Ovaskainen (Helsinki), Denis Couvet (Paris), Oscar Gaggiotti (Grenoble), Xavier Lambin (Aberdeen), Andrew Young (Sidney) and Etienne Rampal (Haren)

Participants will have the opportunity to present their own research. Ample time will be allowed for discussions.

Registration and further info at: http://www.unil.ch/dee/page11644.html

Attendance limited to 30 participants Registration fees (including food and accommodation) are CHF 250.-, except for students from the Swiss universities affiliated to the CUSO (Genève, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg and Bern), who will be given priority. Deadline for registration 30th June 2005.

Organizers: Jerome Goudet (Lausanne) Nicolas Perrin (Lausanne) Laurent Excoffier (Bern)

Nicolas Perrin Dept. Ecology & Evolution University of Lausanne (Switzerland) http://www.unil.ch/dee/page5090_en.html Tel (0041) 21 692 41 84 new mail: nicolas.perrin@unil.ch

Nicolas Perrin Nicolas.Perrin@unil.ch

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