International PAG Forest Tree Genome Mapping Workshop
Sunday, 13 January 2002 --- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm -10:15 pm
Forest Tree Genome Mapping Workshop - Sunrise
Room
Organizers: Toby Bradshaw,
University of Washington
(toby@u.washington.edu)
Click here for
Dr. Bradshaw home page
and
David Neale, USDA/FS
(dbneale@ucdavis.edu)
Speakers:
8:45 am - 9:00 am Welcome
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Len Van Zyl, North Carolina
State University
(lmvanzyl@unity.ncsu.edu)
Microarray Analysis as a Tool for Identifying Target Genes
Involved in Wood Formation
9:20 am - 9:40 am
Sheree A. Cato, New
Zealand Forest Research Institute
(sheree.cato@forestresearch.co.nz)
Allelic Differences in Gene Expression and Candidate Gene
Discovery in Pinus Radiata
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Garth Brown, University
of California - Davis
(gbrown@dendrome.ucdavis.edu)
Searching for Genes Undelying Quantitative Variation in
Conifer Wood Properties:
Candidate genes, Single Nucleotide Polymorphsisms, and an
Association Study in Loblolly Pine
10:00 am - 10:20 am Coffee Break
10:20 am - 10:40 am
Phillip Wilcox, New
Zealand Forest Research
Institute
(phil.wilcox@forestresearch.co.nz)
Genetic Architectuere of Juvenile Wood Density in Pinus
Radiata
and Implications for Design of Linkage Disequilibrium
Studies
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Rongling Wu, University of
Florida
(rwu@mail.ifas.ufl.edu)
Functional Mapping of Quantative Trait Loci: A Theoretical
Framework
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Kostya Krutovskii, University of California - Davis
(kkrutovs@dendrome.ucdavis.edu)
EST Markers and Comparative Mapping
11:20 am - 11:40 am
Caroline Saintagne, INRA
(saintagne@pierroton.inra.fr)
Genomic Organization of Molecular Differentiation Between
Closley Related
White Oak Species (Q. Petraea MayTT (LIEBL) and Q. ROBUR
L)
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Manuela Casasoli, INRA
(manuela.casasoli@ias.tr.cnr.it)
Comparative Genetic Mapping Between QUERCUS ROBUR L. and
CASTANEA SATIVA MILL
12:00 pm - 1:10 pm Lunch - on your own
1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
John Carlson, Pennsylvania State
University
(jec16@psu.edu)
The Floral Project: A New NSF Plant Genome Project to
Uncover the Genetic Basis and Origin and Diversification of Flower
Architechture
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Berthold Heinze,
Federal Forestry Research Center
(berthold.geinze@fbva.bmlf.gv.at)
A Concept for Detecting Tightly Linked Markers in
Open Pollinated Tree Progenies of FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR
1:50 pm - 2:10 pm
Yoshihiko Tsumura,
Department of Forest Genetics
(ytsumu@ffpri.affrc.go.jp)
Population Genetic Study of Cryptomeria Japonica Based on
Linkage Map
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm
Ronald Sederoff, North Carolina
State University
(ron_sederoff@ncsu.edu)
A Genomic Approach to Wood Formation in Loblolly
Pine
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Christophe Plomion, INRA
(plomion@pierroton.inra.fr)
Ten Years of Molecular Genetics in Maritime Pine
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
David Neale, University
of California -Davis
(dneale@dendrome.ucdavis.edu)
Allele Discovery for Genes Controlling Economic Traits in
Loblolly Pine
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kermit Ritland, University of
British Columbia
(kermit.ritland@ubc.ca)
A Britsih Columbia Initiative in Forestry Genetics
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Ove Nilsson, University of
Umea, Sweden
(ove.nilsson@genfys.slu.se)
The Swedish Populus EST Project
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Gerald A Tuskan, DOE/Oak Ridge
(gtk@ornl.gov)
Sequencing the Populus Genome: Applications to the
Energy-related Missions of DOE
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Gail Taylor, University of
Southampton
(g.taylor@soton.ac.uk)
Popyomics: A Project Linking Physiology, Molecular Genetics,
and Genomics
in Populus to Understand and Improve Yield and Quality for
Biomass and
Timber Production Across Europe

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