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Program

8:30-9:00

David Neale (Institute of Forest Genetics, USA)
Reflections on ten years of genome research in forest trees

9:00-9:30

Sue Carson (Forest Research, New Zealand)
Prospects for increasing genetic gain in plantation forests through marker-aided selection

9:30-10:00

Break

10:00-10:15

Christine Elsik (Texas A&M University, USA)
Inferring complex genome organization from selective cloning methods

10:15-10:30

Irena Jurman (University of Udine, Italy)
Analysis of structure and organization of repetitive sequences in the Norway spruce genome (Picea abies K.)

10:30-10:45

Federic Cattonaro (University of Udine, Italy)
The Alisei family of gypsy-like retrotransposons in the Norway spruce genome

10:45-11:00

Sheree Cato (Forest Research, New Zealand)
Development of a rapid PCR-based method for mapping ESTs in pines

11:00-11:15

John Carlson (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Douglas-fir SSR marker development and mapping

11:15-11:30

Tim Sawbridge (ForBio Research, Australia)
EST sequencing in Eucalyptus

11:30-11:45

Ying-Hsuan Sun (North Carolina State University, USA)
A cDNA microarray analysis of differential gene expression during juvenile and mature wood formation in pine

11:45-12:00

Garth Brown (Institute of Forest Genetics, USA)
Comparative mapping in loblolly and slash pines

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:00

Mitch Sewell (Institute of Forest Genetics, USA)
Progress towards identification and verification of QTLs in forest trees

2:00-2:30

Steve Strauss (Oregon State University, USA) and Toby Bradshaw (University of Washington, USA)
Strategies for identifying genes that are QTLs

2:30-3:00

Break

3:00-3:15

Yutao Li (ForBio Research, Australia)
Comparison of three different QTL detection methods when two QTL are linked on the same chromosome with different effects and marker spacings

3:15-3:30

David Remington (North Carolina State University, USA)
Genetic mapping reveals a number of embryonic lethal loci in a selfed family of loblolly pine

3:30-3:45

Pivi Hurme (University of Oulu, Finland)
Mapping adaptive trait QTLs and viability loci in Scots pine

3:45-4:00

Barbara Frewen (University of Washington, USA)
Detecting QTL for dormancy related traits in poplar

4:00-4:15

Phil Wilcox (Forest Research, New Zealand)
Genetic control of key wood property traits in radiata pine

4:15-4:30

Catherine Clark (North Carolina State University, USA)
Chloroplast microsatellite differentiation in eastern North American Abies

4:30-4:45

David OMalley (North Carolina State University, USA)
Chloroplast haplotype diversity in loblolly pine

4:45-5:00

Berthold Heinze (Institute of Forest Genetics, Austria)
Chloroplast DNA investigations in wild and cultivated Prunus avium and its congeners