Dr Vaimiti Dubousquet studied the genetic diversity of giant clams and their response to thermal stress in French polynesia with an integrative approach of functionnal genomics. She is interested in resilience of coral reefs, and especially their symbiotic organisms, to…
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Antilles University, Guadeloupe Within BOREA research unit, Malika RENE-TROUILLEFOU is responsible for the Caribbean site. Biochemist, specialized in the microbiology of scleractinian corals since 2012, she completed her PhD at the University of Montpellier 2 in 2009. Very involved in…
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Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Solomon Islands With 494 known coral species from 76 genera, Solomon Islands is located within the Coral Triangle Region, the region comprises the highest coral diversity in the world. Coral reefs play an important…
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Manager of the Heron Island research station, University of Queensland, AustraliaAdjunct position at the University of South Pacific, Fiji Coral Reefs are the foundation of life in the Pacific. Fiji has a vast array of coral reefs spread over an…
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University of Lausanne, Switzerland In collaboration with the Swiss Foreign Ministry, EPFL has established the Transnational Red Sea Center with core mission to study and protect the unique Red Sea coral reef ecosystems through a broad, international research effort. This…
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In future, conservation efforts to preserve coral reefs will increasingly depend on the adaptation capabilities of corals, an aspect rarely addressed in the past. This project aims at promoting a conservation strategy that accounts for the adaptive potential of corals…
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Noumea, 4-6 December 2019 SEASCAPE GENOMICS : A NEW TOOL TO SUPPORT CORAL REEF MANAGEMENT The degradation of the ocean conditions worldwide is threatening the persistence of coral reefs, the most biodiverse ecosystem in our oceans. The future survival of…
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The adaptation of corals to global changes is a key point to reef survival. However, due to a lack of knowledge, this important aspect is often neglected in conservation strategies. Our seascape genomics project is based on the fact that corals…
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Oliver Selmoni, PhD PostDoc position in seascape genomics at Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Expertise in bioinformatics, with focus on landscape and seascape genomics.
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Dr. Gaël Lecellier, researcher and associate professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (France) Expertise in molecular biology, with focus on cellular genetics and functional genomics.
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