"When Genealogy Meets Ecology" Claudia Neuhauser, University of Minnesota The study of relations and interactions between organisms and their environment has largely neglected evolutionary mechanisms and vice versa due to the belief that ecological and evolutionary time scales are vastly different. Theoretical and empirical evidence, however, has demonstrated cases where this separation of time scales does not hold. In the early 1990s, Antonovics coined the phrase "community genetics" to initiate a line of research that considers the "role of genetic variation in influencing species interactions and determining community structure." We will introduce spatially explicit and implicit stochastic models to investigate the interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics.