A new technology that uses genetics in biodiversity conservation was the main feature of the 1st Pan-Pacific Advanced Studies Institute, an international program that has gathered scientists, professors and graduate students from around the world, at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, a press release from the school said.

The program that started July 15 and ended Wednesday had 61 participants from 10 countries for a series of case study and research on the use of advanced genomic applications in marine science and resource management in Southeast Asia.

Experts from the United States, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Iran, Thailand, Sweden, Brazil and the Philippines, focused discussions on genetic diversity in natural populations, phylogeography, and applications to marine management in Southeast Asia; genetics of local adaptation; genomic signatures of natural selection; functional ecology based on global gene expression profiling; RAD approaches to marine and conservation sciences; and single nucleotide polymorphisms versus microsatellites in population ecology, the press release said.

PacASI was supported by the National Science Foundation of the United States, the press release added.*

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