Date: 9 - 13 December 2024

Where: University of Pretoria, Future Africa

Course Objective: To train participants to understand and use population genetics principles and DNA-marker data to improve biodiversity conservation. The course will teach research approaches, monitoring, data analyses, and interpretation (RADseq, amplicon-seq, targeted capture, WGseq). The course will help bridge the gap between research and management to improve conservation (e.g., Allendorf et al. 2022, Chapter 24). This course is urgently needed and timely given the extinction crisis and the recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in which 196 parties committed to reporting the status of genetic diversity for all species wild and domestic (Mastretta-Yates et al. 2024; Hoben et al. 2024). For details on ConGen-Africa: see https://www.umt.edu/ces/conferences/congen/africa/.