Monday, 4 November 2019

PopCOmics in the 20th Iberian Marine Biology Symposium


by Xavier Turon

PopCOmics in the 20th Iberian Marine Biology Symposium

 In September 9-12, 2019, the XX SIEBM was held in Braga (Portugal). PopCOmics had a nice representation there.
Marta Pascual gave a keynote speech Population structure in marine organisms: from genetics to genomics”, and four oral presentations and six posters dealt with results of the project, no less!

The titles of the talks were:

-Antich A, Palacín C, San Román D, Wangensteen OS, Turon X. Metabarcoding the benthic boundary layer: the role of sampling method and marker characteristics in the DNA signatures obtained at the interface between benthos and plankton.
-Turon X, Casso M, Pascual M. Population genomics revealed independent colonisation events of a global ascidian invader.
-Carreras C, García-Cisneros A, Wangensteen OS, Ordóñez V, Palacin C, Turon X, Pascual M (2019) East to West: Population genomics and hierarchical analyses reveal differential adaptation footprints in the edible sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus.
-Torrado H, Carreras C, Raventós N, Pascual P, Macpherson E(2019) Environmental and phenotypic drivers affect differential genomic responses in two sympatric congeneric fish.

And the posters were:

-Turon X, Casso M, Turon M, Marco N, Pascual M. Tunic microbiome of a global ascidian invader.
-Pascual M, Casso M, Tagliapietra D, Turon X. High fusibility and chimera prevalence in a worldwide invasive colonial ascidian.
-Pérez-Portela R, Riesgo A, Wangensteen OS, Palacín C, Turon X. Loving the warming: transcriptomic responses to acute thermal shifts in a recent colonizer in the Mediterranean, the sea urchin Arbacia lixula.
-Barbanti A, Turmo M, Blumenthal JM, Boyle J, Broderick AC, Collyer L, Ebanks-Petrie G, Godley BJ, Mustin W, Pascual M, Carreras C. Founding in action: genetic assessment of new populations from the same reintroduction program.
-Carreras C, Pous S, Vega M, Macpherson E, Pascual M. Genotyping impact of mixing samples from multiple non-model species in population genomic analyses
-Torrado H, Mourre B, Raventós N, Carreras C, Tintoré J, Pascual M, Macpherson E. Use of individual early life traits in larval dispersal models: a multispecies approach. 

The meeting was an enjoyable experience. We could meet and discuss with colleagues from the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. The presentations of the PopCOmics project were very well received and we got valuable inputs for our research.

 


Learn more about the meeting at http://20thsiebm.org/

and browse the abstracts in Frontiers Events


Enjoy!