» Outreach Presentations
Project team members routinely conduct field, classroom, and invited presentations to a wide range of audiences and at various venues. Formal presentations are enumerated here, the most recent shown first. Where a count of audience size is available, it is given in the Venue/Audience column in parentheses.
| Activity | Presenter/Author | Title | Date/Location | Venue/Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talk | N Wheeler, TD Byram, S McKeand, R Whetten, F Isik, D Huber, G Howe, D Nelson, B St.Clair, J Wegrzyn, and D Neale. | Conifer translational genomics network: Bringing genomics-based breeding to application | July 25-28, 2011/ Troutdale OR USA | Western Forest Genetics Association Meeting |
| Talk | GT Howe, GT Slavov and VD Hipkins | Marker-informed program management: Concepts, benefits, and examples | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | P Munoz and D Huber | Selecting putative loblolly pine QTL for introgression into an elite slash pine population from a ((slashXloblolly)Xslash) pseudo-backcross family | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | N Wheeler | Genomics in tree breeding and forest ecosystems -an on-line teaching tool | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | C Dana Nelson, B Olukolu, T Zhebentyayeva, N Islam-Faridi, F Hebard, M Staton, AG Abbott | Molecular-assisted genotype building in American x Chinese chestnut backcross breeding | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | TD Byram, N Wheeler, EM Raley and JW Richardson | Evaluating Alternative Forest Tree Breeding Strategies: A Simulation Approach | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | F Isik, R Whetten, J Zapata-Valenzuela, F Ogut, and S McKeand | Genomic selection in tree breeding: Opportunities and challenges | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | R Whetten, F Isik, J Zapata-Valenzuela, F Ogut, and S McKeand | A vision for genomic selection in loblolly pine in the North Carolina State University Cooperative Tree Improvement Programs | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Poster | VE Chhatre, TD Byram, DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, and KV Krutovsky | Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping of Adaptive and Selected Traits in Breeding Populations of East Texas Loblolly Pine | June 22-24, 2011/ Davis CA USA | International Symposium: Genomics-based breeding in forestry (65) |
| Talk | TD Byram, SE McKeand, R Whetten, F Isik, D Huber, G Howe, N Wheeler, C Dana Nelson, B St.Clair, JL Wegrzyn and DB Neale | Conifer Translational Genomics Network: Bringing genomics-based breeding to application | June 13-16, 2011/Biloxi MS USA | 31st South. For. Tree Improv. Conf. (75) |
| Talk | VE Chhatre, TD Byram, DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, and KV Krutovsky | Association mapping of adaptive and breeding traits in East Texas Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) breeding populations using high-density SNP genotyping | June 13-16, 2011/Biloxi MS USA | 31st South. For. Tree Improv. Conf. (75) |
| Poster | VE Chhatre, TD Byram, DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, and KV Krutovsky | Genetic structure and association mapping of adaptive and selected traits in East Texas loblolly pine breeding populations | May 23-15, 2011/ College Station TX USA | National Assoc. of Plant Breeders (~100 attendees) |
| Poster | VE Chhatre, T Byram, DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, and KV Krutovsky | Association Mapping Analysis of Economic Traits in East Texas Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) | May 10-11, 2011/ Jasper TX USA | Western Gulf Forest Tree Improvement Program (WGFTIP) Contact Representative's Meeting |
| Talk | Wheeler N/b> | Marker-informed breeding in forest trees: Are we there yet? | March 9, 2011/ Coeur d'Alene ID USA | Inland Empire Tree Improvement Cooperative Annual Meeting (~100) |
| Talk | J Zapata-Valenzuela, F Isik, C Maltecca, JL Wegrzyn, DB Neale, and RW Whetten | Genomic selection in a cloned population of loblolly pine | January 15-19, 2011/ San Diego CA USA | PAG XIX, Forest Tree Workshop |
| Talk | VE Chhatre, TD Byram, DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, and KV Krutovsky | High-density SNP genotyping of East Texas loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) | January 15-19, 2011/ San Diego CA USA | PAG XIX, Forest Tree Workshop |
| Talk | JL Wegrzyn, B Figueroa, J Yu, M Choi, AJ Eckert, and DB Neale | Bioinformatic solutions for data storage, analysis, and interpretation in forest genomics: Overview of the tools and resources from the Dendrome Project | January 15-19, 2011/ San Diego CA USA | PAG XIX, Forest Tree Workshop |
| Poster and Demo | JL Wegrzyn, B Figueroa, J Yu, M Choi, and DB Neale | Dendrome project and TreeGenes Database: Bioinformatic solutions for data storage, analysis, and interpretation in forest genomics | January 15-19, 2011/ San Diego CA USA | PAG XIX |
| Poster | VE Chhatre, TD Byram, DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, and KV Krutovsky | Population structure and association mapping analysis of adaptive traits in East Texas loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) | January 15-19, 2011/ San Diego CA USA | PAG XIX |
| Talk | Neale D | Forest tree genomics: Genome sequencing to applied breeding | December 14, 2010/ Concepcion, Chile | Genomica Forestal S.A. Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidad de Concepcion |
| Talk | Neale D | Forest tree genome projects: Lessons learned | November 20-22, 2010/UC Santa Barbara--Sedgewick Reserve CA USA | North American Oak Genome Workshop |
| Talk | Whetten R | CTGN project and genomics-based breeding in forest trees | October 27, 2010/New Bern NC USA | NCSU-CTIP Annual Meeting |
| Talk | Neale D | Genomics-based breeding in forest trees | October 19-20, 2010/St. Louis MO USA | Danforth Center Seminar |
| Talk | Wheeler N | Genotype verification tools and protocols | October 19, 2010/Aurora OR USA | NWTIC Annual Meeting (~40) |
| Talk | Isik F | CTGN Project and genome-wide selection in tree breeding | October 14, 2010/Artvin, Turkey | Coruh University Seminar |
| Talk | Isik F | CTGN Project and genome-wide selection in tree breeding | October 11, 2010/Trabzon, Turkey | Karadeniz Tech University Seminar |
| Talk | Isik F | CTGN Project and genome-wide selection in tree breeding | September 30, 2010/Ankara, Turkey | Forest Tree Improvement Research InstituteSeminar |
| Talk | Eckert A | Ecologically relevant genetic diversity in forest trees - Genotype, phenotype and environment | August 23-24, 2010/Instituto Agrario di S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy | FoResTTraC Landscape Genomics Working Group meeting |
| Talk | Wheeler N | Genomics in tree breeding: Past, present, and future | July 7, 2010/ Vancouver WA USA | PNWTIRC Meeting (~30) |
| Talk | Mosca E/Mosca E, DiPerro E, LaPorta N, Vendramin GG, Belletti P, Neale DB | Adaptation in alpine conifers | May 19-20, 2010/ Trento, Italy | Alpine Ecosystems in a Changing Environment: Biodiversity, Sensitivity, and Adapative Potential. ACE-SAP 3rd Annual General Meeting |
| Talk | Wheeler N, Byram T | Genomics in tree breeding: Past, present, and future | May 18-19, 2010/ Bismarck AR USA | WGFTIP Contact Meeting |
| Talk | Byram T | State of the conifer genome | May 18-19, 2010/ Bismarck AR USA | WGFTIP Contact Meeting |
| Talk | Chhatre V | Genetic structure in loblolly pine breeding populations: What can we learn from molecular markers? | May 18-19, 2010/Bismarck AR USA | WGFTIP Contact Meeting |
| Talk | Huber D | SNP markers for the BC1 population | May 12-13, 2010/ Gainesville FL USA | Univ. Florida Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program/Members (~25) |
| Talk | Wheeler N | Genomics in tree breeding: Past, present, and future | May 12-13, 2010/ Gainesville FL USA | Univ. Florida Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program/Members (~25) |
| Talk | Neale DB | Development and application of genomic-based tools to manage forests in response to climate change | May 26-29, 2010/Mugla, Turkey | Int. Symp. Biology of Rare and Endemic Plant Species |
| Talk | Neale DB | Development and application of genomic-based tools to manage forests in response to climate change | April 29-30, 2010/Harvard Univ. Cambridge MA USA | 6th Annual Plant Biology Initiative Symposium: Trees and the Global Environment |
| Talk, Keynote address | Neale DB | Development and application of genomic-based tools to manage forests in response to climate change | March 7-13, 2010/ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | IUFRO 2010: Sustainable Utilisation and Conservation of Forests in the Genomics Era |
| Talk, Workshop | Neale DB | Association genetics of complex traits in forest trees | March 7-13, 2010/ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | IUFRO 2010: Sustainable Utilisation and Conservation of Forests in the Genomics Era |
| Talk | Neale DB | Forest tree genomics research in North America | March 4, 2010/ INRA, Paris, France | FoResTTrac Kickoff Meeting |
| Talk | Whetten R | Bringing marker-informed breeding to application in the NCSU Cooperative Tree Improvement Program | January 19, 2010/ Guangzhou, China | Research Institute of Tropical Forestry |
| Talk | Whetten R | Bringing marker-informed breeding to application in the NCSU Cooperative Tree Improvement Program | January 16, 2010/ Beijing, China | Chinese Academy of Forestry |
| Talk | Whetten R | Bringing marker-informed breeding to application in the NCSU Cooperative Tree Improvement Program | January 15, 2010/ Beijing, China | Beijing Forestry University |
| Talk, Invited | Neale DB | Association studies for complex traits in conifers | October 7-9, 2009/ Forest Resesarch Institute, Freiburg, Germany | Workshop: Opportunities, Challenges, and Limitiations of Genomics-Based Technologies in Forest Tree Breeding and Forest Genetics |
| Talk, Invited | Neale DB | Development and application of genomic-based tools to manage forests in response to climate change | October 7-9, 2009/ Forest Resesarch Institute, Freiburg, Germany | Workshop on Opportunities, Challenges, and Limitiations of Genomics-Based Technologies in Forest Tree Breeding and Forest Genetics |
| Talk | Howe GT | Presenting the CTGN Project | September 17, 2009/ Schroeder Seed Orchard, OR USA | Stimson Lumber Company Representatives |
| Talk | Wheeler N and Byram T | Marker informed breeding in tree improvement - How does that work? | August 10, 2009/ Monterey CA USA | Western Forest Genetics Association Meeting (30) |
| Talk | Eckert A | Estimating diversity and divergence. DNASam software | August 3-5, 2009/ Centro di Ecologia Alpina - Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy | Research conference/Beginning and advanced graduate students in forestry programs across Europe and the United States |
| Talk | Neale DB | Introduction to genetic and QTL mapping and association genetics | August 3-5, 2009/ Centro di Ecologia Alpina - Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy | Research conference/Beginning and advanced graduate students in forestry programs across Europe and the United States |
| Talk | Wheeler N | Introduction to population and quantitative genetics and genetic markers | August 3-5, 2009/ Centro di Ecologia Alpina - Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy | Research conference/Beginning and advanced graduate students in forestry programs across Europe and the United States |
| Talk | Eckert A | Population structure and demography | August 3-5, 2009/ Centro di Ecologia Alpina - Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy | Research conference/Beginning and advanced graduate students in forestry programs across Europe and the United States |
| Talk | Wegrzyn J | Resequencing and PineSap software | August 3-5, 2009/ Centro di Ecologia Alpina - Fondazione E. Mach, Trento, Italy | Research conference/Beginning and advanced graduate students in forestry programs across Europe and the United States |
| Brochure | CTGN Extension and Education Team | Conifer Translational Genomics Network - CAP | Late Summer, 2009 | CSREES, all committee members, team members |
| Talk | Harry DE and Wheeler N | New developments in genetic markers and their applications | June 25, 2009/ OR USA | Members of the Northwest Seed Orchard Managers (40) |
| Talk | Harry DE | Overview of genetics, breeding, and germplasm deployment | May 11, 2009/ College Station TX USA | Members and staff of the Western Gulf Tree Improvement Program |
| Talk | Harry DE and Wheeler N | Overview of genetics, breeding, and germplasm deployment | May 11, 2009/ College Station TX USA | Members and staff of the Western Gulf Tree Improvement Program (25) |
| Talk | Wheeler N | How genetic markers can improve the tree improvement process | May 5, 2009/ Macon GA USA | Members and staff of the Florida Tree Improvement Cooperative (25) |
| Talk | Whetten R | Conifer Translational Genomics Network (CTGN) | December 10, 2008/ NC State Univ. Raleigh NC USA | NCSU Cooperative Tree Improvement Contact Meeting (54) |
| Workshop | Isik F and Cumbie WP | ASReml Workshop for beginners | December 8-9, 2008/ NC State Univ. Raleigh NC USA | Beginning users of ASReml to predict breeding values, including use of SNP markers |
| Field activity | Howe GT | Field and lab assessments of cold hardiness in Douglas-fir | December, 2008/ WA USA | Employees of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources |
| Talk, invited | Wheeler N | Education, extension and outreach activities in our genomics projects (CTGN, ADEPT2) | November 17, 2008/ Quebec City, Canada | Arborea2 Stakeholders Semi-Annual Meeting (25) |
| Talk, invited | Harry DE | Population and evolutionary genetics | October 10, 2008/ Oregon State Univ. Corvallis OR USA | Non-science undergraduates in Forest Biology (FS 240) (~35) |
| Workshop | Isik F (host and organizer) with G Dutkowski and R Kerr, quantitative geneticists from Australia) | Advanced ASReml Workshop | October 6-10, 2008/ NC State Univ. Raleigh NC USA | Advanced workshop on the theory and use of ASReml to predict breeding values, including the use of SNP markers |
| Talk | Neale DB | ??? | September 30-October 3, 2008/ Biosphere 2. Oracle AZ USA | IPlant Collaborative-sponsored "Grand Challenge Workshop: Mechanistic Basis of Plant Adaptation" |
| Talk | Neale DB | Forest tree translational genomics | August 26-28, 2008/ UC Irvine, Irvine CA USA | National Plant Genome Initiative Workshop |
| Talk, Keynote address | Neale DB | Genomic discovery for application in tree breeding and forest health management | August 25-28, 2008/ Quebec, Canada | IUFRO-CTIA 2008 Joint Conference: Adaptation, Breeding and Conservation in the Era of Forest Tree Genomics and Environmental Change/Tree breeders, students, scientists (100s) |
| Talk | Byram T and Wheeler N | The promise and unresolved challenges of marker assisted breeding in Southern pine tree breeding programs | August 25-28, 2008/ Quebec, Canada | IUFRO-CTIA 2008 Joint Conference: Adaptation, Breeding and Conservation in the Era of Forest Tree Genomics and Environmental Change/Tree breeders, students, scientists (100s) |
| Talk | Isik F/Isik F, Li B, Sederoff R, Whetten R, Mckeand S, Goldfarb B | Genetic improvement of wood quality traits in Pinus taeda | August 25-28, 2008/ Quebec City, Canada | IUFRO-CTIA 2008 Joint Conference: Adaptation, Breeding and Conservation in the Era of Forest Tree Genomics and Environmental Change/Tree breeders, students, scientists (100s) |
| Talk | McKeand S | Loblolly pine: A clear choice for biofuels feedstock production in the South (emphasized CTGN component of the research) | August 18, 2008/ Bloomington MN USA | Short Rotation Crops International Conference (100+) |
| Talk | Isik F | Population Improvement in the era of varietal forestry | July 22-25, 2008/ Charleston SC USA | IEG-40 Meeting Scientists and Forest Industry, International Conference (100+) |
| Talk | Howe GT and Harry DE | Forest genetics and genomic tools: Contributing to sustainable natural resource management in Pacific Northwest forests | July 1, 2008/ Corvallis OR USA | Purdue-NCSU-SLU Joint Summer Shortcourse "Sustainability of Natural Resource Management in the Pacific Northwest." OSU Visit (20 US and EU students and 6 faculty) |
| Talk | Howe GT, Wheeler N, and Harry DE | CTGN research and extension workshop | June 25, 2008/ Corvallis OR USA | PNWTIRC members and staff (24) |
| Web Seminar | Neale DB | GoldenGate and Infinium SNP genotyping for association studies in trees | June 20, 2008 | Public |
| Talk | Howe GT et al. | Genetics of Douglas-fir wood stiffness: acoustic tools, bending stiffness, and candidate gene markers | May 28, 2008/ Vancouver WA USA | The Science of Wood Quality: Workshop jointly sponsored by PNWTIRC, NWTIC, SMC, and WFCA (75) |
| Talk | McKeand S | Update on CAP grant, Conifer Translational Genomics Network | May 28, 2008/ Atlanta GA USA | 52nd Advisory Committee Meeting, NCSU Cooperative Tree Improvement Program (41) |
| Talk | Byram T | Conifer Translational Genomics Network: The CAP Grant - Bringing markers to bear on applied tree breeding program | May 13-14, 2008/ College Station TX USA | Western Gulf Forest Tree Improvement Program contact meeting |
| Talk | Munoz P | BC1 phenotyping results | May, 2008/ Gainesville FL USA | Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program annual meeting |
| Talk | Huber D | CTGN and its direct applicability to the CFGRP | May, 2008/ Gainesville FL USA | Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program annual meeting |
| Lecture | Whetten, R. | Functional genomics in forest species | April 10, 2008/ Concepcion, Chile | Curso Internacional de Genetica y Biotecnologia Forestal |
| Lecture | Whetten R | Molecular markers and their applications in forest species | April 10, 2008/ Concepcion, Chile | Curso Internacional de Genetica y Biotecnologia Forestal |
| Talk | Neale DB | Population, quantitative and comparative genomics of adaptation in forest trees | April, 2008/ Vancouver BC Canada | University of British Columbia forest sciences seminar |
| Talk | Jermstad KD/Jermstad KD and Neale DB | Genetic mapping of genes controlling slow-rusting resistance and major gene resistance in sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) | March 26-28, 2008/ Walnut Creek CA USA | 3rd Annual DOE Joint Genome Institute Users Meeting/Researchers on biofuels (~350) |
| Talk | Neale DB | Tree breeding: Conquering high heterozygosity and long generation times | March 17, 2008/ St. Paul MN USA | Plant Breeding in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities Across the Plant Sciences |
| Talk | Howe, G.T./Howe, G.T., Strauss, S., and Jayawickrama, K. | Overview of CAFS-related research at Oregon State University | February 20-21, 2008/ Portland OR USA | Annual meeting of the NSF Center for Advanced Forestry Systems (CAFS) (65) |
| Talk | Neale DB | Association studies with molecular markers | February 1, 2008/ Davis CA USA | Breeding with molecular markers. UCDavis Extension |
| Talk | Neale DB | From genes to trees: Genomics, tree physiology and forest ecology | February 1, 2008/ Victoria BC Canada | Forest Biology Symposium, University of Victoria |
| Talk | Neale DB | Genomics to tree breeding and forest health | February 1, 2008/ Coeur d'Alene ID USA | Inland Empire Tree Improvement Cooperative Annual Meeting |
| Talk | Wheeler N | The role of genomics in tree breeding | January 31, 2008/ Vernon BC Canada | BC Tree Breeders annual meeting/Tree breeders and managers (16) |
| Poster | Neale DB et al. | Conifer Translational Genomics Network | January 12-16, 2008/ San Diego CA USA | International Plant & Animal Genome XVI (>1000) |
| Talk | Howe GT | CTGN Field Activities | December 10, 2007/ Vancouver WA USA | Northwest Tree Improvement Cooperative Annual Meeting/Members (15) |
| Talk | Harry DE | Understanding biotechnology: Genomics and DNA markers | December 10, 2007/ Salem OR USA | 67th Ann. Meeting Oregon Seed Growers League/ Growers, processors, distributors, breeders (~120) |
| Talk | Huber D | The CTGN Project | December 1, 2007/ Gainesville FL USA | Annual Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program Meeting |
| Talk | Howe GT | Introducing the Conifer Translational Genomics Network | October 22, 2007/ Aurora OR USA | Northwest Tree Improvement Cooperative Annual Meeting/Members (46) |
| Talk | Harry DE | Introducing the Conifer Translational Genomics Network: Goals and extension opportunities | October 17, 2007/ Silver Falls Park OR USA | Bi-Annual Planning Meeting, Oregon Forestry Extension/Extension foresters and administrative staff (21) |
| Poster | Howe GT and Harry DE/Neale DB et al. | Conifer Translational Genomics Network | September 29, 2007/ Seaside OR USA | Annual Retreat, Center for Genomic Research & Biocomputing, OSU/OSU scientists and associates (~50) |
