International PAG Forest Trees Workshop

Forest Trees Workshop Sunday - All day, 16 January 2011 --- 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Forest Trees Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizers: Carl Douglas, University of British Columbia

(cdouglas@interchange.ubc.ca)

and

Stephen DiFazio, West Virginia University

(stephen.difazio@mail.wvu.edu)

and

Patricia Faivre, INRA

(faivre@evry.inra.fr)

(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:

8:00-8:10
Carl Douglas, University of British Columbia (carl.douglas@ubc.ca)
"Opening Remarks and Announcements"

8:10-8:30
Alexander Myburg, University of Pretoria (zander.myburg@up.ac.za)
"Assembly and Annotation of the Eucalyptus Genome Sequence"

8:30-8:50

Martin Ranik, Oregon State University (martin.ranik@oregonstate.edu)
"Transcriptomic analysis of floral development in Eucalyptus grandis by mRNA sequencing"

8:50-9:10
John Carlson, Pennsylvania State University (jec16@psu.edu)
"Sequencing the genome of Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima)"

9:10-9:30

Ting Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (lit1@ornl.gov)
"Discovery of non-classical signatures in small proteins in Populus, Vitis, Arabidopsis, and Glycine"

9:30-9:50

Christina Quinn, State University of New York (crquinn@gmail.com)
"The roles of novel and differentially expressed microRNAs in loblolly pine pollen germination"

10:10-10:30

Ujwal Ranjit Bagal, The University of Georgia (bujwal@uga.edu)
"Phylogenomics of the phenylalanine ammonia lyase gene family in Pinus taeda and other conifers"

10:30-11
:00
Jim Mattsson, Simon Fraser University (jmattsso@sfu.ca)
"A genomics approach to gene discovery related to ungulate browsing resistance in western red cedar (Thuja plicata)"

11:00-11:20
Juan Jesus Molina-Rueda, Rutgers University (jjmolina@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
"The drought stress response in GS poplars involves alterations in expression of the superoxide dismutase gene family"

11:20-11:40

Andrew Groover, USDA Forest Service (agroover@fs.fed.us)
"Characterization of Class III HD ZIP transcription factors that regulate cell differentiation and tissue polarity during secondary growth"

13:00-13:20
Dario Grattapaglia, EMBRAPA (dario@cenargen.embrapa.b)
"High realized accuracies of genomic selection for volume growth and wood density in Eucalyptus breeding populations with contrasting effective sizes"

13:20-13:40
Márcio Resende Jr, University of Florida (mresende@ufl.edu)
"Genomic selection and next-generation genotyping to hyper-accelerate pine breeding "

13:40-14:00
Jaime Zapata-Valenzuela, North Carolina State University (jazapata@ncsu.edu)
"Genomic selection in a cloned population of loblolly pine "

14:00-14:20

Vikram Chhatre, Texas A&M University (crypticlineage@gmail.com)
"High-density SNP genotyping of east-Texas loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)"

14:40-15:00
Jill Wegrzyn, University of California, Davis (jlwegrzyn@ucdavis.edu)
"Bioinformatic solutions for data storage, analysis, and interpretation in forest genomics: overview of the tools and resources from the Dendrome project"

15:00-15:20
Nathalie Pavy, Université Laval (nathalie.pavy@sbf.ulaval.ca)
"How SNPs are distributed across 19,000 expressed genes in the gymnosperm white spruce"

15:20-15:40
Brian J. Knaus, USDA Forest Service (bknaus@fs.fed.us)
"Another step for conifer genomics: A Douglas-fir transcriptome"

15:40-16:00
Jeff Dean, University of Georgia (jfddean@gmail.com)
"The Pinus taeda BAC Browser"

16:20-16:40
Leandro Gomide Neves, University of Florida (gomide@ufl.edu)
"Whole-exome sequencing and genotyping in the loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) megagenome"

16:40-17:00
Sara Pinosio, Università di Udine (pinosio@appliedgenomics.org)
"Genome-wide structural variation in poplar "

17:00-17:20
Stefania Giacomello, Università di Udine (giacomello@appliedgenomics.org)
"Sequence and polymorphism map of the Populus nigra genome from a de novo assembly approach"

17:20-17:40
Hua Bao, University of British Columbia (baohua100@hotmail.com)
"Xylem transcriptome analysis of SNP diversity and alternative splicing variation in Populus trichocarpa "

17:40-18:00
Nathaniel Street, Umeå University (nathaniel.street@plantphys.umu.se)
"Sequencing and annotating the genome of Populus tremula to facilitate genome-wide association mapping in the Swedish aspen collection"


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