Call for Papers

The International Program for study of Salmon Ecological Genetics at the University of Washington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Science, is planning a two and one-half day SNP Workshop III at a resort north of Seattle, Washington, USA, March 22-24, 2010.  Both oral and poster presentations will be considered, and a subset invited for peer review and potential publication in a Special Issue of Molecular Ecology Resources to appear in early 2011.

Time line for Special Issue:

February 15	Meeting abstracts due Submit here
May 31	Manuscript deadline
September 1	First round of review complete (only papers that don't require major overhaul or completely new data will be able to resubmit in time)
October 15	Final versions received (including cover images and preface piece) and sent to production office
December 15	Issue published online
January 1, 2011	Print publication

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Introduction

SNP II, in 2006, provided a mechanism for 85 participants from 7 countries to share progress in discovery and applications.  We envision that SNP III will be similar in scope, including topics that span a wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate species.  A huge change since SNP II is the emergence of next-generation sequencing approaches to SNP discovery in non-model organisms.  Such applications will play a prominent role in SNP III. 

SNPs are rapidly becoming the genetic marker of choice in many studies of ecology, population structure, and especially fisheries conservation and management.  In addition, SNPS are increasingly being used to understand the relationship between the phenotype and the genotype in evolutionary studies.  Researchers involved in genome mapping and QTL detection, population genomics, and whole genome association analyses are utilizing SNPs to obtain sufficient coverage of the genome.  Also, transportability of SNP data has enabled multinational collaborations on pelagic fish species that undergo long migrations, where the ease of data standardization across laboratories and different genotyping platforms makes SNPs ideal for constructing species-wide data bases.  Some participants will share progress from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission consortia of laboratories who are developing 96-SNP arrays for studies of Pacific salmon; some will share results from FishPopTrace, an international collaboration to identify the geographic origin of fish products of four Northeast Atlantic species using 1536-SNP arrays.   

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Format

This will be a two and one-half day meeting to allow participants to discuss topics including but not limited to:

SNP discovery using deep sequencing
Bioinformatics
SNP validation and high-throughput genotyping
Population studies: genetic stock identification, adaptive differentiation
Linkage and association mapping

Interested parties are encouraged to submit abstracts of no more than 200 words pertaining to one of the main topics above to the organizing committee. The committee will select papers for oral presentation – others are invited for a poster presentation. Invited presenters are expected to contribute to the Special Issue in Molecular Ecology Resources. In order to facilitate timely publication in this extremely fast moving field, we ask authors to bring their manuscript submission to the meeting – any changes arising from the meeting can be incorporated at the review stage. Papers will be peer-reviewed, edited and revised; accepted manuscripts will be posted online as soon as available. Contact any of the organizing committee members about presentations.  

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Organizing Committee

Jim Seeb Lisa Seeb Lorenz Hauser Kerry Naish Steven Roberts Gary Carvalho

jseeb@uw.edu lseeb@uw.edu lhauser@uw.edu knaish@uw.edu sr320@uw.edu g.r.carvalho@bangor.ac.uk