Animal Cells and Gametes: Next Generation Biodiversity Resources for Research and Conservation

This session will showcase how museums work with sample collections to understand evolution and species development and the impact of human activity on the transitions of the biological world.

Session Chairs: Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds and Jonas Astrin 

Speakers:

• State of the Art Speech: Fibroblast Cells: Their role in enhancing species conservation. Presented by: Marlys Houck
• State of the Art Speech: Biobanking as a conservation tool. The way to an amphibian cell line. Presented by: Julie Strand
• State of the Art Speech: Equine Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Their Application to Other Species Preservation. Presented by: Tullis Matson
• State of the Art Speech: The use of animal cell lines for chromosome evolution and comparative genomic studies: the past, present and future. Presented by: Jorge Pereira