Program & abstract book [PDF]
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| Sunday 10 October |
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| 17:00 |
Registration |
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| 18:00-20:00 |
Reception (drinks and hors d'oeuvres) |
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| Monday 11 October |
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07:00-08:00 |
Breakfast |
| 08:00–08:30 |
Introductions Slater, Norby, Martin, Tuskan |
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Session I: Molecular Bases of Adaptation & Evolution
in Plants
Chairperson: Toby Bradshaw
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| 08:30–09:10 |
Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Max Planck Institute,
Germany
Functional and adaptive significance of natural variation in relatives of
Arabidopsis |
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| 09:10–09:50 |
Michael Purrugannan, North Carolina State University, USA
Molecular population genetics of Arabidopsis inflorescence development |
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| 09:50-10:20 |
Rebecca Doerge, Purdue University, USA
Identifying determinants of expression level polymorphism |
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| 10:20–10:40 |
Break |
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Session II: Patterns of Adaptive Variation
in Tree Populations
Chairperson: Claire Williams
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| 10:40–11:10 |
Dave Neale, Institute of Forest Genetics, USFS, Davis, CA, USA
Population and evolutionary genomics of adaptation in Forest trees |
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| 11:10–11:40 |
Christophe Plomion, Pierroton- INRA, France
Naturally occurring nucleotide diversity in candidate genes for forest
tree adaptation: magnitude, distribution and association with quantitative
trait variation |
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| 11:40-12:10 |
Michele Morgante, University of Udine, Italy
Sequence variation and linkage disequilibrium in Populus |
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| 12:10–13:30 |
Lunch and posters |
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Sally Aitken, University of British Columbia, Canada
Adaptation to cold in forest tree populations |
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Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University, USA
Community and ecosystem genetics of Populus: a consequence of extended
phenotypes |
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| 14:30–14:45 |
Break |
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| 14:45–16:00 |
Discussion groups |
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| 16:00–16:45 |
Discussion group reports |
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| 16:45–18:00 |
Poster viewing/Interactive time/Refreshments |
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| Tuesday 12 October |
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| 07:00–08:00 |
Breakfast |
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Session III: The Poplar Molecular Toolbox
Chairperson: Berthold Heinze
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| 08:15–08:30 |
Announcements |
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| 08:30–09:00 |
Steve DiFazio, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
A structural overview of the Populus genome |
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Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Belgium
Towards annotation of the poplar genome |
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Rishi Bhalerao, Umea University, Sweden
Molecular analysis of dormancy- Integrating genetics and genomics to understand
environmental adaptation |
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Break |
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Victor Busov, Michigan Tech University,, USA
Transformation and adaptation: precision and power in forward and reverse |
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Wout Boerjan, Gent University, Belgium
Transcriptomic adaptation to mutations |
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Steven Ralph, University of British Columbia,
Canada
Functional genomics in Populus: towards understanding plant-herbivore
interactions |
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| 12:00–18:00 |
Lunch and Group Activities in Smokies |
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| 19:00 |
Reception |
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| 19:30 |
Conference dinner |
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| 20:00 |
Dinner speaker
Dr. Sandy McLaughlin |
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The Great Smoky Mountains - Its History, the
Environment and Man |
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| Wednesday 13 October |
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| 07:00–08:00 |
Breakfast |
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Session IV: Molecular Bases of Adapation
in Poplar
Chairperson: Quentin Cronk
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| 08:00–08:15 |
Announcements/Introductions |
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Gail Taylor, University of Southampton, UK
Global environmental change, poplar gene expression and links to quantitative
genetics |
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Jaakko Kangasjarvi, University of Helsinki,
Finland
Populus euphratica EST sequencing and microarrays - what can we
learn from a stress-tolerant species? |
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Sébastien Duplessis, INRA-Nancy, France
Characterization of the early response of poplar to rust infection using
expression profiling |
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Francis Martin, INRA - Nancy, France
The wood underground: a glimpse of the interactions between poplar and
ectomycorrhizal fungi |
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Break |
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| 10:30–12:00 |
Discussion groups |
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| 12:00–13:00 |
Discussion group reports |
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| 13:00 |
Adjourn |
