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Une nouvelle boîte à outils de sauvetage génétique pour la conservation des océans

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This session will highlight innovative genomics and synthetic biology tools that can be used to augment traditional coral reef conservation approaches.
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This session highlights both the challenges and promising innovations in understanding and conserving ocean biodiversity with a focus on coral reefs. Overfishing, disease and habitat destruction are compounded by the effects of a warmer, more acidic ocean. These challenges demand greater commitment to conventional conservation strategies as well as accelerated innovation. Next-generation tools (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics, stem cells, cryopreservation, beneficial microbes) enable new insights to manage, conserve, and potentially intervene in marine systems. This session presents an overview of tools and techniques that can provide new approaches to the management and restoration for one of the most productive and biodiverse ocean ecosystems, coral reefs. The session will highlight a new generation of scientists who are tackling coral reef restoration challenges, featuring students, conservation genomics specialists and other speakers from the front lines of new tool development.

Agenda de la session

Modérateur

Dr Michele WEBER

Director of Conservation Innovation,
Revive & Restore
United States of America


14:00 - 14:10

Intervenant

Dr Tiffany KOSCH

Research Fellow,
University of Melbourne
Australia


14:10 - 14:20

Dr Daniel BARSHIS

Associate Professor,
Old Dominion University
United States of America


14:20 - 14:30

Dr Jonathan DALY

Conservation Biologist,
Taronga Conservation Society Australia
Australia


14:30 - 14:40

Dr Blake USHIJIMA

Assistant Professor,
University of North Carolina Wilmington
United States of America


14:40 - 14:50

Dr Benyamin ROSENTAL

Principal Investigator,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Israel


14:50 - 15:00

Dr Aditi MANKAD

Senior Research Scientist,
Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (C
Australia


15:00 - 15:10

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