International Research Fellowship Program: Combining Population Genetics and Genomics to Study Threatened Populations

0202707Tallmon国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项提供了合作研究的机会，以及使用独特或互补的设施，专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持由博士大卫A。Tallmon将与法国格勒诺布尔约瑟夫傅立叶大学高山种群生物学实验室的Gordon Luikart博士和英国阅读大学的Mark博蒙博士合作。他们的项目涉及评估新方法的功效、偏差和精度，以检测隐藏的种群障碍、种群间低水平的当前基因流以及受威胁种群的自然选择。PI和他的合作者将使用现有的共享软件程序，从具有已知人口统计和进化历史的模拟人群中生成遗传数据。 他们将分析这些数据与其他现有的统计程序做评估。 研究结果将发表，以帮助那些从事自然种群保护工作的人。博蒙博士是贝叶斯和最大似然方法应用于保护遗传学问题的世界领导者。 阿尔卑斯种群生物学实验室以其在应用分子技术进行种群遗传学方面的开创性研究而闻名于世。

0202707TallmonThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will support a twelve month research fellowship by Dr. David A. Tallmon to work with Dr. Gordon Luikart at Joseph Fourier University's Lab of Alpine Population Biology in Grenoble, France and Dr. Mark Beaumont at Reading University in the UK.Their project involves the evaluation of the power, bias and precision of new methods to detect cryptic population barriers, low levels of current gene flow among populations, and natural selection in threatened populations. The PI and his collaborators will use available shareware programs to generate genetic data from simulated populations with known demographic and evolutionary histories. They will analyze this data with other existing statistical programs to do the evaluation. The results will be published to aid those working on the conservation of natural populations.Dr. Beaumont is a world leader in the application of Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches to conservation genetics problems. The Laboratory of Alpine Population Biology is internationally known for its pioneering research in the application of molecular techniques to population genetics.