We organize a conference on "Social systems: demographic and genetic issues" next October (11-15th) in Paimpont, Brittany, France. We propose the conference to be organized around 2 major themes:
1. Social organization and demographic structure – The influence of philopatry, polygyny, dispersal bias among sexes, natal sex ratio, social reproductive suppression, kin selection and kin discrimination, on demographic structure
2. Social organization and genetic structure –The effects of social organization and group dynamics, the role of group fission, fission-fusion social systems, sex biased dispersal, the influence of dominance rank (lineages or individuals), mate choice on the distribution of relatedness and gene diversity of neutral and functional (for instance MHC) genes. The conference will mix theoretical and empirical approaches, scientific questions with methodological issues.
The conference will be limited to about 75 people, with space for about forty oral communications and for posters. We invite people who wish to communicate at the conference to send us a tentative title for an oral communication or a poster before May 19th.
Organization and registration details including a list of confirmed invited speakers can be found on http://socior.univ-rennes1.fr/
Nelly Ménard 1, Nicolas Perrin 2, Eric Petit 1 & Jean-Sébastien Pierre 1
1 Department for the study of Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution at the University of Rennes 1 and CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
2 Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Nelly Ménard,
UMR 6553 ECOBIO,
Ecosystème, Biodiversité, Evolution;
CNRS/Université de Rennes 1;
Station Biologique
35380 Paimpont-France
1. Social organization and demographic structure – The influence of philopatry, polygyny, dispersal bias among sexes, natal sex ratio, social reproductive suppression, kin selection and kin discrimination, on demographic structure
2. Social organization and genetic structure –The effects of social organization and group dynamics, the role of group fission, fission-fusion social systems, sex biased dispersal, the influence of dominance rank (lineages or individuals), mate choice on the distribution of relatedness and gene diversity of neutral and functional (for instance MHC) genes. The conference will mix theoretical and empirical approaches, scientific questions with methodological issues.
The conference will be limited to about 75 people, with space for about forty oral communications and for posters. We invite people who wish to communicate at the conference to send us a tentative title for an oral communication or a poster before May 19th.
Organization and registration details including a list of confirmed invited speakers can be found on http://socior.univ-rennes1.fr/
Nelly Ménard 1, Nicolas Perrin 2, Eric Petit 1 & Jean-Sébastien Pierre 1
1 Department for the study of Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution at the University of Rennes 1 and CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
2 Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Nelly Ménard,
UMR 6553 ECOBIO,
Ecosystème, Biodiversité, Evolution;
CNRS/Université de Rennes 1;
Station Biologique
35380 Paimpont-France