The Population Genetics Group (or PopGroup, or PGG) is an annual meeting of
population geneticists held in the UK since 1968. The meetings have been very influential in promoting population and evolutionary genetics in the UK, Europe, and elsewhere.
There have been long-standing connections between the PopGroup meeting and the journal
Heredity
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic inform ...
. In 2017 Heredity published a special issue to mark the 50th meeting of the PopGroup.
The two and a half day meetings are held annually just before Christmas or in the new year at UK universities. Attendance is typically in the range of 190-250 participants. The meetings are characterised by a very informal atmosphere alongside scientific rigour.
PopGroup is a self-organising meeting, not part of any society or university, and with no formal membership. It is funded principally by participant conference fees, and is not for profit, though it has been additionally supported as a Sectional Interest Group by the
Genetics Society.
Th
first meetingswere held in January 1968 by a group of established population geneticists as an outgrowth of informal meetings on the evolutionary patterns of the snail ''
Cepaea nemoralis''. Programmes of the meetings reflect the changes in population genetics through that time,
and are available on th
Population Genetics Group websiteas PDFs.
Notes
: Held virtually due to the
Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
References
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External links
Population Genetics Group
Genetics in the United Kingdom
Population genetics organizations