Conference Agenda

Feliplex: a high throughput sequencing (HTS) microsatellite panel for genetic monitoring of felids

Divyashree Rana¹, Frédéric Boyer², Marta De Barba^3,4, Pierre Taberlet², Uma Ramakrishnan¹

¹National Centre for Biological Sciences, India; ²Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes, France; ³Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; ⁴DivjaLabs L.t.d., Slovenia

Genetic Management and Population Rescue of an Inbred Felid: a Case Study on Dinaric Population of Eurasian Lynx

Tomaž Skrbinšek^1,10, Marjeta Konec^1,10, Barbara Boljte^1,10, Maja Jan¹, Astrid Vik Stronen^1,9,10, Magda Sindičić², Ira Topličanec², Tomislav Gomerčić², Ladislav Paule³, Matej Bartol⁴, Barbara Promberger⁶, Robin Rigg^1,7, Mihai Pop⁸, Jakub Kubala³, Vedran Slijepčević⁵, Miha Krofel¹, Urša Fležar¹, Hubert Potočnik¹, Ivan Kos¹, Elena Pazhenkova^1,10

¹Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; ²University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; ³Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia; ⁴Slovenia Forest Service, Ljubljana, Slovenia; ⁵Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, Karlovac, Croatia; ⁶Foundation Conservation Carpathia, Brasov, Romania; ⁷Slovak Wildlife Society, Liptovsky Hradok, Slovakia; ⁸Association for the Conservation of Biological Diversity, Focșani, Romania; ⁹Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; ¹⁰DivjaLabs Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia

How many wolf ecotypes? The urgency of conserving biodiversity within species

Marco Musiani¹, Ettore Randi²

¹Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali (BiGeA), Univ. of Bologna, Italy; ²Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark

Bottleneck legacies at the whole-genome level: reduced genetic diversity, inbreeding and genetic load in the Italian wolf population

Daniele Battilani^1,4, Roberta Gargiulo², Paolo Ciucci³, Romolo Caniglia⁴, Elena Fabbri⁴, Jazmin Ramos Madrigal⁵, Claudia Fontsere⁵, Shyam Gopalakrishnan⁵, Marta Ciucani⁵, Matteo Girardi⁶, Matteo Mastroiaco², Cristiano Vernesi⁶

¹Università di Roma La Sapienza, Dept. Environmental Biology, Roma, Italy; ²Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom; ³Università di Roma La Sapienza, Dept. Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Roma, Italy; ⁴Area per la Genetica della Conservazione, ISPRA, Ozzano dell’Emilia Bologna, Italy; ⁵Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁶Research and Innovation Centre-Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all’Adige, Italy