PopCOmics meeting

by Adrià Antich

The 29th October, in Barcelona, took place the second meeting of the project. Anna presented "The Cayman Island Turtle Farm: life, death and miracles", a very clear presentation of his study. Nord, Miquel Angel and Dani were presented as new Students of the project. Last but not least, Hector, Marta and Adrià talked about their most recent works. Finally, the PopCOmics web page was officially inaugurated by Xavier and Adrià. 

New Publications and Outreach will be posted soon. You can check out our publications here.

 

Welcome to PopCOmics

By Xavier Turon and Marta Pascual

Dear friends, we are happy to welcome you to the webpage of the PopCOmics project. In this blog you will see posts and updates on the activities of the team and related topics. You will also be able to follow our outputs in the form of papers, meeting participations, student theses, and outreach activities.

PopCOmics is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and is scheduled for the period 2018-2020. We seek to apply novel molecular techniques to address challenges in marine biology research with application to societal problems and conservation goals. We will apply genomics to the study of keystone species (either because of their ecological role, their invasive status, or their conservation challenges). We also want to develop and apply amplicon sequencing techniques (metabarcoding) to the problem of biodiversity assessment, focusing on biomonitoring of natural and impacted habitats. We will also analyse symbiont communities in invertebrates and their response to anthropic perturbations. 

The PopCOmics team includes senior members and students of the University of Barcelona and the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (Spanish Research Council). We also have team members from other institutions in Europe (Norway, UK) and the USA. 

This project is the natural continuation of the ChallenGen (challengenproject.blogspot.com/) and the MarSymbiomics (marsymbiomicsblog.wordpress.com/) projects. You may want to visit these webpages to become acquainted with the activities of the team in previous years.

Please bookmark this page, and watch out for news and updates of PopCOmics, you are all welcome to follow and interact via this blog! 

 

On behalf of the PopCOmics team

The PopCOmics Project

The PopCOmics Project.