SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

A preliminary schedule for the conference can be found at the bottom of this page.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8

9.00

Welcome

S1. Breakthrough Technologies In Functional Genomics

Chair: Christophe Plomion
Co-Chair: Tomas Moritz

9.15	Armin Wagner	Transgenic suppression studies in Pinus radiata
9.45	Break
10.15	Magnus Hertzberg	FuncWood, a platform for wood functional genomics
10.45	Thomas Moritz	A metabolomics approach for studying wood biology
11.05	Chung-Jui Tsai	Populus cell culture as a component for functional genomics research
11.25	M Fladung	Use of the Ac transposon for the induction of gain-of-function and knock-out mutants in Populus
11.45	Peter Nilsson	The global 25k Populus cDNA microarrays
12.05	Lunch, Poster viewing

S2. From somatic embryos to genetic engineering

Chair: Dave Ellis
Co-chair: Sara von Arnold

13.30	Bob Rutledge	Exploring the potential of manipulating transcription factors for the induction of conifer somatic embryogenesis
14.00	Francisco M. Cánovas	Nitrogen assimilation and recycling in woody plants
14.30	Claudio Stasolla	Gene expression during embryo development in conifers
15.00	Break
15.30	Sara Von Arnold; Dave Ellis	Regulation of embryo development in conifers; Moving on up – inside a commercial somatic embryo operation
15.50	M. R. Becwar	Approaches to increase embryogenic culture initiation and cell line capture in loblolly pine
16.10	Marie B. Connett	Methods for obtaining transgenic Pinus from diverse elite families and the field performance of transgenics
16.30	John Cairney	Genomics of embryogenesis in loblolly pine
16.50	Break
17.00	JF Trontin	From somatic embryos to genetic engineering of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster ait.)
17.20	Oskar Erikson	D-amino acid selectable markers
17.40	Kim Van Beveren	In vivo transformation of xylogenic tissue in Pinus radiata
18.00	Dayton Wilde	Analysis of gene function and stability in transgenic Populus deltoides
18.20	Dinner
19.30	Poster session

MONDAY, JUNE 9
S3. Reproductive biology, vegetative development and maturation

Chair: Malcolm Campbell
Co-chair: Ove Nilsson

8.30	Amy Brunner	Transition to flowering and flower development in Populus
9.00	Barry Goldfarb	Gene expression during adventitious root formation in Populus
9.30	Break
10.00	Brett Poulis	Identification of proteins present in Douglas-fir ovular secretions using proteomics
10.20	Victor B. Busov	Gibberellin metabolism and signalling in tree growth and development
10.40	Raili Ruonala	Ethylene-insensitive birch displays impaired dormancy and early flowering
11.00	Øystein Johnsen	The maternal temperature during zygotic embryogenesis influences the adaptive properties of Norway spruce progenies; a "memory" involving dna methylation and differential transcription of phytochrome genes?
11.20	Ove Nilsson	Regulation of flowering time in trees - what can we learn from annual models?
11.40	William H. Rottmann	Acceleration of flowering in Sweetgum using leafy
12.00	Lunch, Poster viewing

S4. Transcript profiling in forest trees, parallel session

Chair: Hannele Touminen

10.00	Edward G. Kirby	Studies of transgenic poplar characterized by ectopic expression of a pine cytosolic glutamine synthetase (gs1a): responses to water stress and altered nitrogen utilization efficiency
10.20	Jeffrey F.D. Dean	The response of loblolly pine root ests to water stress
10.40	T. Teichmann	Stress induced gene expression in the xylogenic cambium of poplar
11.00	Ulrika Egertsdotter	Seasonal variation of transcript abundance during wood formation
11.20	Sara Andersson	New lights on tension wood formation
11.40	S Gonçalves	Real-time reverse transcription PCR (rt-pcr) for confirmation of differential expression of transcripts during embryogenesis of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)
12.00	Lunch, Poster viewing

S5. Symbiotic and pathogen interactions

Chair: Francis Martin
Co-chair: Anders Tunlid

13.30	Sébastien Duplessis	Gene expression profiling in poplar leaves upon infection with rust
14.00	Uwe Nehls	Auxin-dependent regulation of gene expression in poplar fine roots and impact on ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
14.30	Fred Asiegbu	A genomics study of the root rot fungus (heterobasidion annosum) and its interaction with conifer trees
15.00	Break
15.30	Ian Major	How trees defend themselves against insect herbivores: macroarray analysis of gene expression in hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpa x P. deltoides)
15.50	Carl Gunnar Fossdal	The spruce polypeptide spi1 share some of the characteristics known for plant defensins and this suggest that also gymnosperms may encode part of this ancient first line of defence for vulnerable tissues
16.10	Jörg Bohlmann	Molecular biochemistry of talking trees: gene expression and regulation of indirect defence in hybrid poplar after feeding by forest tent caterpillar
16.30	Anders Tunlid	The Paxillus involutus / Betula pendula symbiosis: gene expression in ectomycorrhizal root tissue
16.50	Francis Martin	Exploring the transcriptome of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
17.10	Picnic Dinner

S4. Transcript profiling in forest trees, parallel session

Chair: Ewa Mellerovicz

15.30	Jarmo Schrader	Transcriptional control of cell identity and differentiation in the vascular cambium
15.50	Annabelle Déjardin	Towards an understanding of tension wood formation
16.10	Gary Peter	Gene expression profiles during normal and compression wood formation in loblolly pine
16.30	Wout Boerjan	Phenolic and transcript profiling of transgenic omt-downregulated poplar
16.50	Annegret Kohler	Monitoring the expression profiles of 4500 poplar genes at different developmental stages of adventitious root formation

TUESDAY, JUNE 10
S6. Genomics and marker assisted breading

Chair: Brian Ellis
Co-chair: Stefan Jansson

8.30	C. Dana Nelson	Marker-assisted selection in forest tree improvement
9.00	G.A. Tuskan	The Populus genome: development of an information resource
9.30	Break
10.00	J Grima-Pettenati	Functional genomics of wood formation in eucalyptus
10.20	Stefan Jansson	A glimpse into a tree genome - a Populus est inventory
10.40	S. Ralph	Deciphering the spruce genome: tools for functional genomics and genome-wide marker development
11.00	Harry X. Wu	Efficiency of marker-aided and qtl-aided early selection in Radiata pine breeding
11.20	Salehi Shanjani	Chloroplast dna variation in natural populations of Fagua orientalis along hyrcanian zone
11.40	Matias Kirst	Analysis of microarray gene expression levels as quantitative traits: discovery of candidate genes, regulatory networks and mapping of gene expression qtls.
12.00	Lunch, Poster viewing

S7. Trees and Environment

Chair: Jaakko Kangasjärvi
Co-chair: Torgny Näsholm

13.30	A. Polle	Combining genomics and ecophysiology to unravel stress tolerance in trees
14.00	Ruth Grene	Photosynthetic acclimation is reflected in specific patterns of gene expression in drought-stressed loblolly pine.
14.30	Kyoko Baba	Genomics approach to understand the environmental control of meristematic activity
14.50	Break
15.20	E.Tapio Palva	Control of growth and overwintering in birch (Betula pendula)
15.40	A.H.M van der Geest	Gene expression programs related to dormancy and cold tolerance in Pinus sylvestris
16.00	Gail Taylor	Transcriptional and physiological analysis following acute and chronic drought stress in two Populus species from a three generation mapping pedigree.
16.20	Pierre Dizengremel	Ozone-dependent oxidative stress and carbon metabolism in cells of tree leaves
16.40	Break
16.50	Jaakko Kangasjärvi	Hormonal control of oxidative cell death
17.10	Keiko Yamada-Watanabe	Molecular breeding of eucalyptus analysis of salt stress tolerance of transgenic eucalyptus camaldulensis that overexpress choline oxidase gene (cod A).
17.30	Jörg Bohlmann	Terpenoid biochemistry and gene discovery in conifers
17.50	Arie Altman	The dual role of poplar sp1, a novel homo-oligomeric, stable and stabilizing chaperone: for plant stress tolerance and as a novel forest tree product for biotechnology
18.10	Dinner
19.30	Poster session

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11
S8. Transgenic forestry – Eco-social considerations and risk analysis

Chair: Mikael Karlsson
Co-chair: Trevor Fenning

8.30	Ragnar Lofstedt	The precautionary principle, risk management and tree biotechnology
9.00	Christian Walter	Modern tree biotechnology - a promising technology for future forests
9.30	Break
10.00	Roger A. Sedjo	Transgenic trees for the production of industrial wood: an examination of the economic and regulatory issues in the united states
10.20	Fenning, TM	What are the background ecological and social issues in relation to forests, forestry, and forest biotechnology?
10.40	Mikael Karlsson	Genetically modified trees in the context of sustainable development
11.00	Break

S9. Industrial perspectives on tree biotechnology

Chair: Göran Sandberg

11.10	Maud Hinchee, ArborGen	Meeting the future needs of forestry through biotechnology applications to tree improvement
11.40	Wolfgang Schuch, CellFor	Commercial introduction of elite conifer germplasm in forest plantations using somatic embryogenesis
12.10	Lunch, Poster viewing
13.30	Petter Gustafsson, Swe Tree Technologies	High throughput functional genomics in trees – a way to discover new tree specific traits
14.00	Bill Goure, Mendel Biotechnology	Functional characterization of the complete set of transcription factor genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: a potpourri of high value gene functions
14.20	Christophe Reuzeau, CropDesign Traitmill	A functional genomic platform for the analysis of gene function in plants
14.40	Break

S10. Development and biotechnology of wood

Chair: Wout Boerjan
Co-chair: Björn Sundberg

15.10	Vincent L. Chiang	Combinatorial modification of multiple lignin traits in trees through multigene co-transformation
15.40	C. Douglas	Genomic approaches to wood development and phenylpropanoid metabolism.
16.10	EJ Mellerowicz	Custom- tailored wood fibers
16.30	Shawn D. Mansfield	Significant increases in pulping efficiency in c4h-f5h transformed poplar
16.50	Akiyoshi Kawaoka	Production and analysis of lignin-modified transgenic eucalyptus
17.10	Chandrashekhar Joshi	Three distinct cellulose synthases help building the xylem secondary walls in aspen
19.00	Conference Dinner

THURSDAY, JUNE 12

S10. Development and biotechnology of wood Continued

Chair: Wout Boerjan
Co-chair: Björn Sundberg

9.00	Taku Demura	Gene expression programs during xylogenesis in zinnia and Arabidopsis
9.30	Ykä Helariutta	Developmental analysis of cambial activity in plants
9.50	Break
10.20	Peter Ache	Poplar potassium transporters involved in K+-dependent xylogenesis
10.40	Antje Rohde	Genome-wide characterization of the lignification toolbox in Arabidopsis
11.00	Richard Sibout	Lignin characteristics of Arabidopsis cad mutants and functional analysis of orthologous cad genes from forest trees
11.20	Keming Cui	Programmed cell death during secondary xylem differentiation in Eucommia ulmoides oliv.
11.40	Lawrie Wilson	No more heartwood heartache
12.00	Closure
12.10	Lunch

IPGC Workshop
Chair: Gerald A. Tuskan

Preliminary Schedule

	SATURDAY, 7	SUNDAY, 8	MONDAY, 9	TUESDAY, 10	WEDNESDAY, 11	THURSDAY, 12
8:30			Information	Information	Information
8:45			Session III	Session V	Session VII
9:00		Welcome				Session IX
9:15		Session I

9:45		Break	Break	Break	Break	Break

10:15		Session I	Session III	Session V	Session VII	Session IX






12:00	Secretariat	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
	opens




13:30		Session II	Session IV	Session VI	Session VIII	IPGC Workshop





15:00		Break	Break	Break	Break	Break

15:30		Session II	Session IV	Session VI	Session VIII	IPGC Workshop





17:00			Picnic dinner



18:00	Welcome	Dinner		Dinner
	reception


19:00		Poster session		Poster session	Conference
					Dinner




20:30		The pub opens		The pub opens
		IUFRO meeting