Topic for Spring 2025: Conservation Genetics
PREREQUISITES: BIOL 130 and BIOL 150, or consent of instructor Conservation genetics as a field aims to understand the effects of habitat loss, exploitation, and/or environmental change on the genetic composition of natural populations. This course introduces students to the field of conservation genetics, which focuses on the application of genetic analyses to general questions in wildlife and fisheries biology and management. In the lecture section of this course students will cover genetic theory and methods that are being utilized in modern conservation efforts as well as discussion of methodologies and design considerations. In the laboratory section, students will use publicly available datasets and R-Studio to focus on practical aspects of the field.