Genetics Research at FLBS

Landscape Genetics & Connectivity

• Predicting Effects Of Climate Change On Population Connectivity Using Landscape Genetics And Computer Simulation Modeling
• Mapping Disease Spread Corridors In The Northern Rocky Mountains Using Both Host And Parasite DNA Markers
• Connectivity Among Argali Sheep From Afghanistan And Adjacent Countries: Noninvasive Approaches Using Neutral And Candidate Gene Microsatellites

Genomic Basis of Fitness & Adaptation

• Testing Mechanisms Underlying the Genetic Basis of Fitness
• Genome-Wide Tests for Adaptive Variation in Domestic and Wild Ungulates
• Conservation and Genomics of Salmonids: Development of New Tools to Monitor Harvest & Adaptation to Environmental Change

Disease Ecology & Genetics

• Cross-species Transmission of Infectious Disease: A Population Genomic Approach Tracking Brucellosis in Wildlife, Livestock, and Humans
• Macroparasite-Microparasite Interactions: Dynamics of Co-infection and Implications for Disease Control (see also Ezenwa)

Conservation Genetics

• Population Genetics and Management of Exploited Populations

DNA Markers & Technologies

• DNA Marker Discovery and Genotyping

Computational Statistics & Software

• Development of a Population Genetic/Genomics Analysis Approaches to Monitor Genetic Change at Neutral and Adaptive Gene Loci
• Simulating complex demography and population genetic
• Software for simulating spatially explicit landscape genetics scenarios
• Software for detecting selection
• Estimating effective population size and loss of genetic variation in large vertebrates