and

John MacKay, Laval University

and

Tom Richardson, Forest Research

(This workshop is also the annual meeting of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations): (http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/iufronet/d2/hp20410.htm)

Speakers:

8h15-8h20
Christophe Plomion
(christophe.plomion@pierroton.inra.fr)
National Institute for Agricultural Research
INTRODUCTION

1. 8h20-8h40
Sharon Regan
(regans@biology.queensu.ca)
Queens University, Kingston ON Canada
How plastic are trees: dramatic phenotypic alterations are revealed in a population of activation-tagged poplar

2. 8h40-9h00
Tom Ruttink
(torut@psb.ugent.be)
Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, University of Ghent, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Molecular regulation of short-day induced bud development en poplar

3. 9h00-9h20
Kyung-Hwan Han
(hanky@msu.edu)
Department of Forestry, 126 Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Deciphering the genetic regulation of the annual growth cycle of woody plants

4. 9h20-9h40
Florian Lafarguette
(florian.lafarguette@rsvs.ulaval.ca)
Université Laval, Forest Biology Research Center, Québec, Qc G1K 7P4
Comparative analysis of transcript profiling in poplar xylem during tension wood formation and nitrogen hyper-fertilization

5. 9h40-10h00
Carl Douglas
(cdouglas@interchange.ubc.ca)
Department of Botany and Genome British Columbia Forestry Genomics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
Comparative genomics of secondary wall development in poplar and Arabidopsis

6. 10h20-10h40
Kerr Wall
(pkerrwall@psu.edu)
Department of Biology and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Populus Genome Aids Identification of Gene Families Across the Angiosperms

7. 10h40-11h00
Cetin Yuceer
(mcy1@ra.msstate.edu)
Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA
Elucidation of the flower initiation pathway in Populus

8. 11h00-11h20
Patrick Meirmans
(pmeirmans@cfl.forestry.ca)
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Center, 1055 rue du PEPS, Sainte-Foy (Québec) Canada G1V 4C7
Using SNPstream technology to distinguish poplar species and their hybrids

9. 11h20-11h40
Christophe Plomion
(plomion@pierroton.inra.fr)
UMR Biodiversite Genes Ecosystemes, INRA Equipe de genetique, 69 route d'Arcachon 33612 Cestas, France
Mapping the proteome of poplar and application to the discovery of drought-stress responsive proteins

10. 11h40-12h00
Tania Quesada
(mkirst@ifas.ufl.edu)
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA
Chromatin Domains in the Evolution of Wood

11. 12h00-12h20
Harish Gandhi
(Harish.Gandhi@oregonstate.edu)
Department of Forest Science Oregon State University
Genes that Inhibit GA Signaling have Dramatic Effects on Growth, Morphology, and Flowering of Field-Grown Transgenic Poplars

12h20-13h30
LUNCH

12. 13h30-13h45
Jacqueline Grima-Pettenati
(grima@scsv.ups-tlse.fr)
UMR CNRS UPS 5546, team " Transcriptional regulation and wood formation ", Pôle de Biotechnologie végétale, 24 chemin de Borde Rouge, BP 42617 Auzeville, 31 326 Castanet Tolosan, France
Wood formation in Eucalyptus: transcriptome analysis and characterisation of MYB transcription factors

13. 13h45-14h00
Claude Bomal,
(bomalc@biota.rsvs.ulaval.ca)
Centre de recherche en biologie forestière, Pavillon CE Marchand, Université Laval, Québec (QC), G1K 7P4, Canada
Functional Analysis of Pinus taeda MYBs in Transgenic Spruce: from phenotype to large-scale transcript profiling

14. 14h00-14h15
Franck Bedon
(fbedon@rsvs.ulaval.ca)
ARBOREA and Centre de Recherche en Biologie Forestière, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-Eugène Marchand, Sainte Foy, Québec, CANADA, G1K 7P4
R2R3-MYB transcription factors and wood formation in Spruce (Picea glauca)

15. 14h15-14h30
Sheree Cato
(Tim.Strabala@scionresearch.com)
Scion, Private Bag 3020, Rotorua, New Zealand
Balancing selection in a dehydrin gene associated with increased wood density and decreased radial growth rate in Pinus radiata

16. 14h30-14h45
Carlos Labate
(calabate@esalq.usp.br)
Laboratório Max Feffer de Genética de Plantas, Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Pádua Dias nº11, CP 83, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba-SP, Brazil
Parallel analysis of gene expression and proteins involved in wood formation at different stages of development of Eucalyptus grandis

17. 14h45-15h00
Xinguo Li
(Xinguo.Li@ensisjv.com)
ensis-Genetics, ensis: the Joint Force of CSIRO & SCION, PO Box E4008, Kingston, ACT 2604, Australia
Discovery of Genes Influencing Juvenile Wood Formation in Radiata Pine

18. 15h00-15h15
Steve Ralph
(sralph@interchange.ubc.ca)
Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, #237 6174 University Blvd., Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Characterization of Insect Induced Defenses in Spruce Using Functional Genomics Approaches

19. 15h15-15h30
Craig Echt
(cecht@fs.fed.us)
Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Saucier, Mississippi, USA
Evaluation of Pine EST-SSR Markers

20. 16h00-16h15
Phillip Wilcox
(Phil.Wilcox@scionresearch.com,)
Scion, Private Bag 3020, Rotorua, New Zealand
Comparative Mapping in Pinus radiata and P. taeda reveals co-location of wood density-related QTL

21. 16h15-16h30
Konstantin Krutovsky
(k-krutovsky@tamu.edu)
Department of Forest Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2135, USA
Estimation of Population Structure in the Douglas-fir Association Mapping Study

22. 16h30-16h45
Barnaly Pande
(bpande@ucdavis.edu)
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Association genetics for adaptive traits in Douglas-fir

23. 16h45-17h00
Madhav Pandey
(mpandey@gwdg.de,)
Institute of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Spatial genetic structure of sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.)

24. 17h00-17h15
John Carlson
(jec16@psu.edu,)
School of Forest Resources and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Assembly of chloroplast genomes for Pinus taeda and Liriodendron tulipifera

25. 17h30-17h45
Bob Rutledge
(BRutledge@exchange.cfl.forestry.ca)
Natural Resources Canada, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada
Development of a Simplified Real-time PCR Protocol for Absolute Quantification

26. 17h45-18h00
Kermit Ritland
(kritland@interchange.ubc.ca)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Comparative conifer genomics and the new "Treenomix" program

27. 18h00-18h15
Alok Gupta
(Om.Rajora@dal.ca)
Forest Genetics and Biotechnology Group, Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1 Canada
Under-methylated Genomic Gene-rich DNA Cloning and Sequencing in Black Spruce (Picea mariana)

28. 18h15-18h30
Islam Faridi
(nfaridi@tamu.edu)
USDA Forest Service, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Forest Tree Molecular Cytogenetics Lab, College Station, Texas, USA
Cytological Location of Fusiform Rust Resistance Gene 1 (Fr1) in Shortleaf Pine

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