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:

1. 8:00-8:20
Gerald A. Tuskan, The Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA (tuskanga@ornl.gov)
"The Populus genome: Version 2.0 assembly and annotation"

2. 8:20-8:40
Kelly Vining, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (Kelly.Vining@oregonstate.edu)
"Epigenomic analysis of Populus trichocarpa tissues from differing developmental stages"

3. 8:40-9:00
Anna Stambolia-Kovach, Genetics Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA, USA (astamboliakovach@ucdavis.edu)
"Whole genome shotgun and BAC sequences in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) provideevidence that the majority of the 22-Gb genome to be low-copy and highly divergent"

4. 9:00-9:20
Nurul Islam-Faridi, Forest Tree Molecular Cytogenetics Laboratory, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA (nfaridi@tamu.edu)
"FISH distribution of pine repetitive DNA sequences"

5. 9:20-9:40
Carl J. Douglas, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (cdouglas@interchange.ubc.ca)
"Next generation transcriptome resequencing in Populus trichocarpa enables studies in natural genetic diversity, genome-wide analysis of mRNA processing and expression, and association genetics"

6. 9:40-10:00
Eshchar Mizrachi, Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (eshchar.mizrachi@up.ac.za )
"Prelude to a Genome: De novo assembly, annotation and profiling of an expressed gene catalog of a fast-growing Eucalyptus hybrid clone using Illumina mRNA-Seq"

7. 10:20-10:40
Abdelali Barakat, The School of Forest Resources, Department of Horticulture, and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA (aub14@psu.edu)
"Analyses of the transcriptome of the Fagaceae species"

8. 10:40-11:00
John Mackay, Arborea, Centre for Forest Research, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada (John.Mackay@sbf.ulaval.ca)
"Genetic variability in the conifer wood transcriptome"

9. 11:00-11:20
Vincent L. Chiang, Forest Biotech Group, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (vincent_chiang@ncsu.edu)
"Regulation and Modeling of lignin biosynthesis: A systems biology approach"

10. 11:20-11:40
Dario Grattapaglia, Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasília, Brazil & Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil (dario@cenargen.embrapa.br)
"Genomic selection in Eucalyptus: marker assisted selection coming to reality in forest trees"

11. 11:40-12:00
Timothy R. Sexton, CRC for Forestry, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia (t.sexton.10@scu.edu.au)
"Conservation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in 45 Wood Quality Candidate Genes of Eucalyptus globulus, Eucalyptus pyrocarpa and Eucalyptus pilularis"

12. 12:00-12:20
Eric Mandrou, Centre De Recherche Vallourec, Aulnoye Aymeries; CIRAD, Montpellier and INRA Cestas Pierroton, France (eric.mandrou@pierroton.inra.fr)
"Functional variability of candidate genes involved in the lignifications process in Eucalyptus"

13. 13:20-13:40
Andrew J. Eckert, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA (ajeckert@ucdavis.edu)
"Patterns of nucleotide diversity and associations to environmental heterogeneity across the functional gene space of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda, Pinaceae)"

14. 13:40-14:00
Stacey L. Thompson, California State University Los Angeles, Department of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, USA & Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Québec, Canada (sthomps8@exchange.calstatela.edu)
"Low population structure of Populus balsamifera: Implications for biotechnology risk assessment"

15. 14:00-14:15
Sébastien Clément, Canadian Forest Service, Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Québec, Canada (Sebastien.Clement@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca)
"TreeSNPs and PhenoTree databases: Arborea's integrated data resources for conifer genomics"

16. 14:15-14:30
Chun Liang, Dept. of Botany, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA (liangc@muohio.edu)
"ConiferGDB: Current status and future direction"

17. 14:30-14:45
Jill L. Wegrzyn, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA (jlwegrzyn@ucdavis.edu)
"Bioinformatic solutions for data storage, analysis, and interpretation in forest genomics: Overview of the tools and resources from the Dendrome Project"

18. 14:45-15:00
Philippe Rigault, Gydle Inc, Quebec, Canada (prigault@gydle.com)
"GCAT_WS: Arborea white spruce gene catalogue and collaborative web interface"

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