The 5th IFB Seimnar

The 5th IFB Seminar took place in the conference room of the Institute of Freshwater Biology.

Title: Conservation management based on genetic data and more

Lecturer: Yoshiaki Tsuda

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Sugadaira Kogen Experimental Station, University of Tsukuba Mountain Science Center

Abstract: Rapid advances in genetic and genomic analysis technology have made it possible to assess genetic diversity at the gene, individual, population and ecosystem levels with unprecedented resolution, and environmental DNA has become a powerful tool. However, even among the nearly 200 countries and territories that are signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the response to genetic diversity is still inadequate (Hoban et al. 2021), and it has been suggested that there is a gap between academia and the real world in the field of conservation genetics (Shafer et al. 2016). This is particularly true in wildlife conservation and management, where the proliferation of social media has made it easier to disseminate and share a variety of values, and social consensus needs to be formed to take these into account. In this seminar, I will discuss what kind of genetic data +α is needed for wildlife conservation and management, not only by presenting the fish genetic diversity studies conducted in my laboratory, but also by presenting studies on plants, mammals, insects, and other species.