AGA Symposium 2016
The AGA President’s Symposium, “Local adaptation: from phenotype to genotype to fitness”, will be held July 14–17, 2016, at beautiful Asilomar CA.
In the past, many studies dealt only with phenotypes/traits, but today the connection to genotype is becoming feasible for more and more organisms. Our speakers are a blend of established and new investigators, working on a variety of organisms, and who are taking diverse approaches to the question.
The AGA will provide several travel awards to cover registration, room and board for graduate students who would like to attend.
Details and registration are available on the AGA website http://www.theaga.org
Invited speakers:
Key Distinguished Lecture by Victoria Sork (Dean of Life Sciences, UCLA)
Sally Aitken University of British Columbia
Jill Anderson University of Georgia
Zach Cheviron University of Illinois
Emily Dittmar Michigan State University
Suzanne Edmands University of Southern California
David Field Inst. Science and Tech, Austria
Lila Fishman University of Montana
Jannice Freidman Syracuse University
Steve Keller University of Vermont
John Kelly University of Kansas
Brian Langerhans North Carolina State University
Curtis Lively Indiana University
Robert Reed Cornell University
Douglas Schemske Michigan State University
Rena Schweizer UCLA
Kerry Shaw Cornell University
Peter Tiffin University of Minnesota
Results of the 2015 AGA Elections
We are pleased to announce our newly elected Council Members and Officers:
Council:
Bridgett vonHoldt, Princeton University
William Murphy, Texas A&M University
Beth Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
President-Elect:
Anne Bronikowski, Iowa State University
Thank you to all the candidates who stood for office, and to our members for casting your votes.
Become an AGA Student Member: $28 for a Full Year!
The AGA funds an annual President’s Symposium, small conferences and workshops through its Special Events Awards, the Stephen J O’Brien award to recognize the best student-authored article each year, and the new EECG research award. Membership in the AGA provides eligibility to compete for awards and participate in Council elections, as well as a Journal of Heredity subscription and access to the entire 100-year Journal archive. Visit http://www.theaga.org.
The Stephen J O’Brien Award
The Stephen J O’Brien Award for the best student paper published in the Journal of Heredity is awarded at the annual meeting of the AGA and includes a cash prize of $2000 plus travel expenses to attend the AGA Symposium. The award is intended to honor Dr O’Brien’s many years of service as Chief Editor of the Journal of Heredity. Papers are eligible for the 2016 award if the first author was a registered student at the time of manuscript submission and the article was published in Volume 106 of the Journal of Heredity. Please contact Anjanette Baker, Managing Editor (agajoh@oregonstate.edu) if your article is eligible.
