Workshops Sessions

Workshops on a number of topics pertaining to forest genetics will be held in parallel sessions. Contributed papers will be accepted within the workshops listed below.

Workshop: Geographic Variation and Paleo-Inference -
A Workshop Dedicated to the Memory of Bill Critchfield.

Organized by: Ron Schmidtling ( schmidtl@datasync.com ),
                       Southern Institute of Forest Genetics
University Club, Clubroom 1: Tuesday, July 31, 2001


1:30 - 2:15	Steve Jackson, University of Wyoming Impacts of Quaternary dynamics on conifer genetics: case studies from eastern and western North America
2:15 - 3:00	Tom Ledig, Institute of Forest Genetics / UC Davis Endangered Mexican spruces
3:00 - 3:30	Nick Wheeler, Weyerhaeuser Co. Biogeography of lodgepole pine: genetic evidence
3:30 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:15	Bill Dvorak, CAMCORE Evolutionary history of the Mexican Oocarpae and Caribbean Pines
4:15 - 4:35	Ron Schmidtling, SIFG Genetic evidence for refugia and migrations of the southern (Australes) pines after the last glacial maximum
4:35 - 4:55	Kristin Mylecraine, Rutgers University Rangewide allozyme variation in Atlantic White-cedar
4:55 - 5:15	Lisa O'Connell, University of British Columbia Genetic diversity, mating system, and inbreeding depression of western red-cedar (Thuja plicata)

Workshop: Local Population Structure.

Organized by: Bob Westfall ( rwestfal@dendrome.ucdavis.edu ),
                       Institute of Forest Genetics
University Club, Dining Room: Tuesday, July 31, 2001

1:30 - 2:15	Peter Smouse, Rutgers University A 2-generation model of the analysis of gene flow.
2:15 - 2:35	Victoria Sork, University of Missouri St. Louis Pollen movement in declining populations of California Oak, Quercus lobata: Where have all the fathers gone?
2:35 - 2:55	Rodney Dyer, University of Missouri St. Louis Effects of spatial variation on Two Generation estimates of gene flow.
2:55 - 3:15	Jarek Burczyk, Institute of Biology and Env. Protection Investigations on plant reproductive success through selection and ecological gradients using genetic markers and neighborhood models.
3:15 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:05	Bob Westfall, Institute of Forest Genetics Co-ancestry in Sugar Pine, Pinus lambertiana.
4:05 - 4:25	Dilara Ally, University of British Columbia Spatial genetic structure in mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), both at the geographic and at the local population level.
4:25 - 4:45	John Church, UC Davis Respiration based growth rate predictions match Pinus ponderosa elongation season, ambient temperature and show differences between genotypes.

Workshop: Current Issues in Conservation.

Organized by: Yan Linhart ( yan.linhart@colorado.edu ), University of                                Colorado, and
                       Valerie Hipkins ( vhipkins@fs.fed.us ),
                       US Forest Service - NFGEL
University Club, Lounge: Tuesday, July 31, 2001


1:30 - 2:00	Yan Linhart, University of Colorado The application of genetic and evolutionary perspectives to conservation and management of native gene pools
2:00 - 2:30	Bill Libby, Zobel Forestry Associates Some strategies for production forestry and forest conservation in the face of climate change.
2:30 - 2:50	Valerie Hipkins, USDA Forest Service Gene conservation and genetic markers in the US Forest Service: From conifers to grasses
2:50 - 3:15	Sara Lipow, Oregon State University Results of the gene conservation effort for conifers in Oregon and Washington
3:15 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:10	Alexander Alexandrov, Forest Research Institute Forest genetic resources of southeastern Europe and their conservation
4:10 - 4:30	Kristin Kolanoski, Northern Arizona University Effects of thinning on genetic variation of ponderosa pine in northern Arizona
4:30 - 4:55	Cuauhtemoc Saenz-Romero, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales Altitudinal genetic variation among Pinus oocarpa natural populations in Michoacan, Mexico. Preliminary results on 6-month-old seedlings

Workshop: Applied Forest Tree Improvement -
Genetics, Physiology, and Breeding of Forest Trees.

Organized by: Thimmappa Anekonda, Oregon State University
University Club, Clubroom 1: Thursday, August 2, 2001

1:30 - 2:05	John Major, Canadian Forest Service Significant ecophysiological adaptations of early and late successional spruce species from Eastern Canada.
2:05 - 2:40	Thimmappa Anekonda, Oregon State University Genetics of cold and drought hardiness in coastal Douglas-fir
2:40 - 3:15	Chris Hawkins, University of Northern British Columbia Testing interior spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss X P. engelmanni Parry ex Engelm.), somatic embryogenesis clones in the central British Columbia interior
3:15 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:05	Charlie Cartwright, BC Ministry of Forests Genotype-by-Shade Interactions in Western Hemlock.
4:05 - 4:25	Sue Nykoluk, University of Northern British Columbia Resistance of interior spruce somatic embryogenesis clones to white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi (Peck), attack.
4:25 - 4:45	Nicole Wilder, University of Northern British Columbia Genecology of 20 Paper Birch Sources from British Columbia and Northern Idaho.
4:45 - 5:05	Tongli Wang, University of British Columbia Impacts of coancestry on growth and yield in commercial plantations.

Workshop: Breeding for Resistance - Developments and Issues for the Future.

Organized by: Richard Sniezko ( rsniezko@fs.fed.us ),
                       USDA Forest Service, Dorena Tree Improvement Center
University Club, Dining Room: Thursday, August 2, 2001


1:30 - 1:55	Fatih Temel, Oregon State University Early Testing of Douglas-fir for Swiss Needle Cast Tolerance
1:55 - 2:20	Bohun B. Kinloch, Jr., Institute of Forest Genetics Genetic Interactions in the White Pine/Blister Rust Pathosystem
2:20 - 2:45	Richard A. Sniezko, USDA Forest Service Breeding for resistance to Phytophthora lateralis in Port-Orford-cedar : Current Status and Considerations for Developing Durable Resistance
2:45- 3:10	John Russell, Ministry of Forest Linking deer browsing, monoterpene production, and genetic variation: Case study in Cupressaceae (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis and Thuja plicata)
3:10 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:10	Timothy L. White, University of Florida Synergistic Interactions Among Programs in Tree Improvement, Forest Pathology and Molecular Biology
4:10 - 4:35	John King, BC Forest Service Genetic resistance of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) populations to terminal weevil (Pissodes strobi): possible major gene involvement

Workshop: Molecular Forest Genetics

Organized by: Garth Brown ( gbrown@dendrome.ucdavis.edu ),
                       Institute of Forest Genetics
University Club, Lounge: Thursday, August 2, 2001


1:30 - 1:50	Kermit Ritland, University of British Columbia Forestry Genomics: a major new Canadian initiative in structural and functional genomics
1:50 - 2:10	Xin-Sheng Hu, University of British Columbia Joint Full- or Half-Sibs Linkage Mapping in a Natural Population
2:10 - 2:30	Kathie Jermstad, Institute of Forest Genetics Quantitative trait analysis for adaptive traits and their environmental elicitors in a three-generation pedigree of Douglas-fir
2:30 - 2:50	Konstantin Krutovskii, Institute of Forest Genetics Comparative mapping across three conifer genera
2:50 - 3:10	Cherdsak Liewlaksaneeyanawin, University of British Columbia Investigating mating system of white pine weevil, (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using microsatellite DNA markers
3:10 - 3:50	Break
3:50 - 4:10	Karen Thamarus, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products A genetic linkage map for Eucalyptus obulus with candidate loci for wood and fibre traits
4:10 - 4:30	Carol Loopstra, Texas A&M University Regulation and function of genes involved in wood development
4:30 - 4:50	Andrew Groover, Institute of Forest Genetics Identification of genes controlling vascular development and wood formation using gene traps

Conference Organizer

The conference is being hosted by the Institute of Forest Genetics, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service. Conference chair is
Dr. David Neale , ( dneale@dendrome.ucdavis.edu ),
530-754-8431.