Sunday - All day, 13 January 2008 --- 8:00 am - 6:20 pm
Sunday - All day, 13 January 2008 --- 8:00 am - 6:20 pm
Forest Trees Workshop - Sunrise Room
Organizers:
Matias Kirst, University of Florida
and
Nathalie Isabel, Canadian Forest
Service
and
Alexander Myburg, University of
Pretoria
(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:
8:00am
"Introduction"
2. 8:30am
Evandro Novaes ,
University of Florida
(evandro@ufl.edu)
"Revealing allelic variation in ESTs of Eucalyptus grandis with massively parallel pyrosequencing"
3. 8:45am
Ross W. Whetten ,
North Carolina State University
(ross_whetten@ncsu.edu)
"Discovering genes and polymorphisms in Fraser Fir by parallel sequencing of PCR-based libraries"
4. 9:00am
Georgios J. Pappas,
EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
(gpappas@cenargen.embrapa.br)
"Individual and pooled Eucalyptus BAC clone sequencing and assembly by high throughput pyrosequencing "
5. 9:15am
Richard Cronn ,
USDA Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station
(rcronn@fs.fed.us)
"Massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes: an example from Pinus"
7. 10:00am
Danilo D. Fernando,
State University of New York
(fernando@esf.edu)
"Towards our understanding of the mechanism of pollen tube growth and development in conifers"
8. 10:15am
Øystein Johnsen ,
Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
(oystein.johnsen@skogoglandskap.no)
"Differential gene expression during early development in Norway Spruce related to cold And warm maternal embryo environment"
9. 10:30am
Palitha Dharmawardhana,
Oregon State University
(Palitha@oregonstate.edu)
"Global transcript profiling of Populus trichocarpa during the transition from stem elongation to secondary growth"
11. 11:15
Marie-Claude Nicole,
Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre
(mcnicole@cfl.forestry.ca)
"Organ-specific and pathogen inducible expression profiles of Poplar map kinase kinases (Ptmkks) and map kinase (Ptmpks)"
12. 11:30
Gail Taylor,
University of Southampton
(gt1@soton.ac.uk)
"Gene expression in Populus, during delayed autumnal senescence in elevated carbon dioxide, reveals up-regulation of the anthocyanin bosynthetic pathway"
13. 11:45am
Steven H. Strauss,
Oregon State University
(Steve.Strauss@oregonstate.edu)
"Highly stable transgene expression and RNAi suppression in a large population of field grown poplars"
15. 1:45pm
Rebecca Dauwe,
University of British Columbia
(rdauwe@forestry.ubc.ca)
"Elucidating weevil resistance in interior Spruce by global metabolite profiling"
16. 2:00pm
Jason A. Holliday,
University of British Columbia
(jah1@interchange.ubc.ca)
"Genomics of adaptation to local climate in Sitka Spruce"
17. 2:15pm
Catherine I. Benedict,
University of Florida
(cbenedict@ufl.edu)
"eQTL mapping identifies genes that co-localize with QTL controlling carbon partitioning and allocation in Populus"
19. 3:00pm
Andrew J. Eckert,
UC Davis
(ajeckert@ucdavis.edu)
"Patterns of population structure and historical demographic inference for Loblolly Pine"
20. 3:15pm
Sreenath R. Palle,
Texas A&M University
(sreesree14@yahoo.com)
"Gene expression analysis in an association population of Loblolly Pine "
21. 3:30pm
Shannon K. Dillon ,
CSIRO
(Shannon.DIllon@CSIRO.au)
"Association studies in P. radiata: Recent findings and future considerations "
22. 3:45pm
Barnaly Pande,
UC Davis
(bpande@ucdavis.edu)
"Association genetics of 100 candidate genes involved in adaptation-related cold tolerance in Douglas-Fir"
23. 4:00pm
Jill Wegrzyn,
UC Davis
(jlwegrzyn@ucdavis.edu)
"Discovery of genes for improved cellulose and cellulose-extractability from Poplar secondary xylem"
25. 4:30pm
Dario Grattapaglia,
EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
(dario@cenargen.embrapa.br)
"Sequencing the Eucalyptus grandis genome: A microsatellite survey shows maintenance of heterozygosity in the target, partially inbred, genome"
7:00pm
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