Dear SciLifeLab Community,

Remember to register for SciLifeLab Science Summit; Genomics of Biodiversity and Evolution, Sept 20, Aula Magna, Stockholm. We kindly ask you to share this invitation to your professional network.

https://www.scilifelab.se/event/scilifelab-science-summit-2023/

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Deadline Sept. 6!

Submit a poster!

The Scientific Committee´s Poster jury will nominate the Science Summit 2023 Best Poster and award the winner a 5 000 SEK Travel Grant. Four (4) submitted poster abstracts will be selected for Flash Talks à 5 minutes on stage.

Talks:

The remarkable population structure of Atlantic and Baltic herring - selection, selection, selection

Leif Andersson, Uppsala University

Insights from high quality genome sequencing across the tree of life

Richard Durbin, University of Cambridge

Domestication hologenomics – what are we missing without taking this approach?

Tom Gilbert, University of Copenhagen

Investigating mammalian evolution and human disease through comparative genomics in hundreds of species

Elinor Karlsson, UMass Chan Medical School and Broad Institute

Conservation genomics of the Scandinavian Arctic fox

Karin Norén, Stockholm University

Why cyanobacterial blooms produce toxins – unravelling the underlying genetic diversity in the microcystin gene cluster

Karin Rengefors, Lund University

Sequencing the supergene that governs Darwin’s different forms of flowers

Tanja Slotte, Stockholm University

A Million-Year-Old Journey: Exploring Mammoth Speciation and Adaptive Evolution through time

Tom van der Valk, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Welcome!