9:00

Registrations open

 Fikret Isik and Ross Whetten - North Carolina State University

(limited places;  only for Conference participants; workshop is FREE to all registered Conference participants; on-site registration; more info at http://www.treebiotech2011.com/Minicourse.html )

Lunch available for purchase at the Ecoresort restaurant for people not staying at the Ecoresort

13:30

Posters up

14:30 - 18:00

Poster viewing - ALL SESSIONS

Dario Grattapaglia - IUFRO Tree Biotechnology 2011 Conference Chair

Mauricio Antonio Lopes - Executive Director of Research and Development  - EMBRAPA

Ari Medeiros - Director of Operations  - VERACEL Celulose

Shawn Mansfield - Coordinator of the IUFRO Working Group "Molecular biology of forest trees"

 - Representatives of the supporting funding agencies: CNPq (Ministry of Science and Technology) and CAPES (MInistry of Education) (TBA)

- Local government authorities (TBA)

18:30 -19:30

Keynote lecture  Chair: Dario Grattapaglia

Ron Sederoff - North Carolina State University - USA

Distinguished University Professor, Edwin F. Conger Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources and member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

"Exponential advances in Forest Genetics: The past 25 years and the next 25 weeks"

20:00 - 21:30

Welcome reception - Drinks and canapés

7:00 - 9:00

Beach time

9:00 - 12:30

SESSION 1. POPULATION GENOMICS, CONSERVATION AND ADAPTATION

Chairs: Rene Vaillancourt,  Rogerio Margis

Invited speakers

9:00

Antoine Kremer  - INRA - France

"Missing heritability and missing Fst of candidate genes: Why does gene variation differ from trait variation in trees ?"

9:30

Andrew Eckert - University of California  at Davis - USA

"Population and conservation genomics of forest trees: Seeing the forest for the trees"

Rosane Collevatti - Universidade Feredal de Goiás - Brazil

Tracing the history of South-American neotropical savannas and seasonally dry forests: evidences from comparative phylogeography "

10:30

Coffee break

Selected oral presentations

Stephen DiFazio - West Virginia University  - USA

"Inferring the Evolutionary History of Populus trichocarpa from Whole Genome Resequencing Data"

Carl Douglas - University of British Columbia  - Canada

"Genomics of adaptation and wood properties in Populus trichocarpa"

Janice Cooke - University of Alberta - Canada

"Lodgepole pine, jack pine, and their hybrids: molecular markers reveal mountain pine beetle host-range expansion into jack pine of the boreal forest"

Jose Alexandre Diniz-Filho - Universidade Federal de Goiás - Brazil

"Geographic shifts in climatically suitable areas and loss of genetic variability under climate change in a neotropical tree"

Om Rajora - University of New Brunswick - Canada

"Genomic Signatures of Selection in Response to Sulfate Air Pollution in Natural Populations of Red Spruce"

Alexandre Sebbenn - Instituto Florestal de São Paulo - Brazil

"Effects of forest fragmentation on the effective and realized gene flow of Neotropical tree species: Implications for genetic conservation"

12:30

Lunch (on your own -  lunch available for purchase at the Ecoresort restaurant for people not staying at the Ecoresort)

13:30 -  14:30

Poster viewing  - Presenting Sessions: S1 S2 S3

14:30 - 18:00

SESSION 2. LINKAGE AND ASSOCIATION MAPPING

Chairs: Stephen DiFazio, Zander Myburg

Invited speakers

14:30

David Neale  - University of California  at Davis - USA

"Genomics-based breeding: are we there yet?"

15:00

Simon Southerton - CSIRO Plant Industry - Australia

"Genes and alleles controlling wood development in Eucalyptus"

15:30

John MacKay - University of Laval - Canada

"Arborea: Integrated Spruce Genomics to Enhance and Preserve Northern Forests"

16:00

Coffee break

Selected oral presentations

Maria van Dyk - University of Pretoria - South Africa

"Genetic dissection of transcript, metabolite, growth and wood property traits in an F2 pseudo-backcross pedigree of Eucalyptus grandis x E. urophylla"

Rene Vaillancourt - University of Tasmania - Australia

"QTL analysis for growth and wood properties across multiple pedigrees and sites in Eucalyptus globulus"

Timothy Sexton - Southern Cross University  - Australia

"SNP discovery and association mapping in Eucalyptus pilularis (blackbutt)"

Kermit Ritland - University of British Columbia - Canada

"Comparative genomics of resistance of spruce to the white pine weevil in British Columbia"

Carsten Kulheim - Australian National University - Australia

"Using the Eucalyptus genome to understand the evolution of plant secondary metabolites in the Myrtaceae."

Jean-Marc Gion - CIRAD - France

"Functional variability of two lignification genes in Eucalyptus urophylla"

18:00 -  20:00

Poster viewing - Presenting Sessions: S4 S5 S6

Todd P. Michael - Head, The Genome Analysis Center, Monsanto Company

"Exploring plant genomes with high throughput sequencing"

20:30 - 00:30

"Luau welcome party" at the "Barraca Axé Moi" (beach bar and show arena)

7:00 - 9:00

Beach time

9:00 - 12:30

SESSION 3. GENOMICS ASSISTED BREEDING

Chairs: Ross Whetten, Cristina Marques

Invited speakers

9:00

Matias Kirst -  University  of Florida - USA

 "Capturing and genotyping the genome-wide genetic diversity of trees for association mapping and Genomic Selection"

9:30

Fikret Isik - North Carolina State University - USA

"Genomic selection in loblolly pine - From lab to field"

10:00 - 12:30

 Marie Denis - CIRAD - France

"Genomic selection in tree breeding: testing accuracy of prediction models including dominance effect"

Marcio Resende - University of Florida - USA

"Stability of Genomic Selection prediction models across ages and environments"

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Saravanan Thavamanikumar - The University of Melbourne - Australia

"Candidate gene-based association mapping of growth and wood quality traits in Eucalyptus globulus Labill."

Carolina Sansaloni - EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology

"Genomic Selection for growth traits in Eucalyptus: accuracy within and across breeding populations"

Prasad Hendre - ITC RD Centre - India

"High throughput targeted SNP discovery using NGS in few selected candidate genes for Eucalyptus camaldulensis."

Rita Costa - Instituto Nacional dos Recursos Biológicos -L/INIA  - Portugal

"Mapping and transcriptomic approches implemented for understanding disease resistance to Phytophthora cinammomi in Castanea sp"

Mark Van Haaren -  KeyGene Inc. USA

"Sequence-based breeding; application to unravel traits of the 6F crops: food, feed, fiber, flowers, fuel and fun"

William Foley - Australian National University  - Australia

"The regulation of quantitative variation of foliar terpenes in medicinal tea tree Melaleuca alternifolia"

12:30

Lunch (on your own -  lunch available for purchase at the Ecoresort restaurant for people not staying at the Ecoresort)

13:30 -  14:30

Poster viewing  - Presenting Sessions: S7 S8 S9

14:30 - 18:00

SESSION 4. REPRODUCTION, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Chairs: Taku Demura, Bjorn Sundberg

Invited speakers

14:30

Chung-Jui (CJ) Tsai - University of Georgia - USA

"Salicylate metabolism in Populus"

15:00

Victor Busov - Michigan Technological University - USA

"Division of labor: Multiple and specialized controls of vegetative growth and development in a poplar tree"

15:30

Amy Brunner - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - USA

“Regulation of shoot system development in Populus”

16:00

Coffee break

Selected oral presentations

Janice Cooke - University of Alberta  - Canada

"A Roadmap of Apical Bud Formation in White Spruce Identifies Potential Regulators of Time to Bud Set"

Venkatesh Viswanath - Oregon State University - USA

"Greenhouse and Field Evaluation of Transgenic Poplars with Modified Gibberellin Metabolism and Signaling Genes"

Juha Immanen - University of Helsinki - Finland

"Enhanced Cytokinin signaling stimulates cell proliferation in cambium of Populus"

Deborah Goffner - UMR 5546 :Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales - France

"WAT1 (WALLS ARE THIN1) defines a novel auxin transporter in plants and integrates auxin signaling in secondary wall formation in Arabidopsis fibers"

Igor Yakovlev - The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute - Norway

"Molecular dissection of an adaptive epigenetic memory mechanism in Norway spruce"

Urs Fischer - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Sweden

"Dual function of auxin during leaf abscission in poplar"

18:00 -  20:00

Poster viewing - Presenting Sessions: S1 S4 S7

19:00 -  20:00

FUTURAGENE Technical Workshop  - (speakers TBA)

7:30 - 17:30

ALL-DAY TECHNICAL FIELD TRIP TO VERACEL CELULOSE S.A.

Chair: Karina Zamprogno -  Research scientist  - Forest biotechnology - VERACEL

VERACEL institutional video presentation (15 min.)

Buses leave at 8:00

The 180 signed up delegates (first come-first serve upon registration) will be divided into four groups of 45. These four groups will circulate the four visiting stations listed below, being two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Brown bag lunch will be served "on the go".

(1) Field trials and  pulp mill brief tour "in bus" due to safety reasons

(2) Clonal plantations, demo of silvicultural and harvesting operations

(3) Nursery

(4) Veracel Forest Reserve

Delegates not participating in the technical field trip will have a free day for tours to historical Porto Seguro, excursions for whale watching, adventure and ecotourism, beach time etc.

EUCAGEN members meeting - Discussion and final planning of contributions to the Eucalyptus genome paper

Chair: Zander Myburg

7:00 - 9:00

Beach time

9:00 - 12:30

SESSION 5. BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC INTERACTIONS

Chairs: Carl Douglas, Isabel Gerhardt

Invited speakers

9:00

Armand Seguin - Natural Resources Canada - Canada

"The genomics of poplar-rust interactions to improve tree resistance against fungal disease"

9:30

Christophe Plomion - INRA Bordeaux - France

"Genomic basis of forest tree adaptation"

Selected oral presentations

Joerg Bohlmann - University of British Columbia  - Canada

"Biomarkers and gene copy number variation for terpenoid traits associated with insect resistance in Sitka spruce: An integrated genomic, proteomic, and biochemical analysis of (+)-3-carene biosynthesis"

Emilie Villar - CIRAD / INRA - France

"Integrative approach involving RNA-Seq, foliar traits and growth measurements revealed genotype-specific plasticity on eucalyptus subjected to seasonal water shortage."

Adriana Arango-Velez - University of Alberta - Canada

"Influence of water deficit on the induced and constitutive responses of pines to infection by mountain pine beetle fungal associates"

Malin Elfstrand - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Sweden

"Heterobasidion parviporum triggers non-specific defence responses in bark of Norway spruce"

Bala Thumma - CSIRO Plant Industry - Australia

"Transcriptome sequencing of Eucalyptus camaldulensis seedlings subjected to water stress."

Erin Hamanishi - University of Toronto - Canada

"The relationship between intra-specific variation in the Populus transcriptome, stomatal development, and the metabolome in response to drought"

Claudine Franche - Rhizogenese - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  - France

"New insights in the molecular events underlying actinorhizal nodulation in the tropical tree Casuarina glauca"

Erwin Krauskopf - Universidad Andres Bello - Chile

"Potential use of the Eucalyptus globulus vacuolar pyrophosphatase 1 (EgEVP1) to generate drought and salt resistant plants"

12:30

Group photograph

12:45

Lunch (on your own -  lunch available for purchase at the Ecoresort restaurant for people not staying at the Ecoresort)

13:30 -  14:30

Poster viewing - Presenting Sessions: S2 S5 S8

14:30 - 18:00

SESSION 6. WOOD FORMATION

Chairs: Jaqueline Grima-Pettenati, Wout Boerjan

Invited speakers

14:30

Vincent Chiang - North Carolina State University - USA

"A systems biology approach to understanding the regulation of lignin biosynthesis"

15:00

Bjorn Sundberg - Umeå Plant Science Center, SLU - Sweden

"Ethylene signaling via Ethylene Response Factors (ERFs) modifies wood development in hybrid aspen"

15:30

Shawn Mansfield - University of British Columbia - Canada

"How sweet it is – making the most of carbohydrate metabolism"

16:00

Coffee break

Selected oral presentations

Isabel Gerhardt - Embrapa Forestry  -  Brazil

"Overexpression of walldof transcription factor increases secondary wall deposition and alters carbon partitioning in poplar"

Yordan Yordanov -  Michigan Technological University  - USA

"Boundary Issues in Regulation and Evolution of Wood Formation"

Masatoshi Yamaguchi - Nara Inst. Sci. Technol. (NAIST) - Japan

"VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN 7 directly regulates the expression of a broad range of genes for xylem vessel formation."

Xiaoyan Jia - Virginia Tech - USA

"Populus biomass protein-protein interactions and their functions"

Lise Jouanin - INRA - France

"Identification of laccases involved in lignin polymerization and strategies to deregulate their expression in order to modify lignin content in Arabidopsis and poplar"

Ines Ezcurra - KTH Biotechnology  - Sweden

"An AC-type element mediates transactivation of secondary cell wall carbohydrate-active enzymes by PttMYB021, the Populus MYB46 orthologue"

18:00 -  20:00

Poster viewing - Presenting Sessions: S3 S6 S9

19:00 -  20:00

ARBORGEN Technical Workshop - (speakers TBA)

Free night

7:00 - 9:00

Beach time

9:00 - 12:30

SESSION 7. PROPAGATION AND IN VITRO TECHNOLOGIES

Chairs: Matthias Fladung, Arthur Fett-Neto

Invited speakers

9:00

Magnus Hertzberg - SweTree Technologies AB - Sweden

"From genes towards products and the significance of gene delivery!"

9:30

Teotonio de Assis - Assistech breeding and propagation technology

"Hybrids and micro-cuttings: a powerful combination that has revolutionized Eucalyptus clonal forestry"

10:00

Ziv Shani - FuturaGene Ltd.

"Opening the Gateway to Enhanced Eucalyptus"

10:30

Coffee break

Selected oral presentations

Antanas Spokevicius - University of Melbourne - Australia

"Analysis of cellulose synthase (CesA) promoter function in trees using Induced Somatic Sector Analysis (ISSA)"

Tuija Aronen - Finnish Forest Research Institute - Finland

"Variation of telomeric repeats in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) – is there a connection to ageing and loss of regeneration ability?"

Bo Zhang - State University of New York - USA

"Agrobacterium-mediated Co-transformation of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Somatic Embryos with a Wheat Oxalate Oxidase Gene"

Jose de Vega-Bartol - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica  - Portugal

"Evaluation of reference genes for quantitative PCR analysis during somatic embryogenesis in conifers"

Mathish Nambiar-Veetil - Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding  - India

"Optimisation of methods for Agrobacterium rhizogenes mediated generation of composite plants in Eucalyptus camaldulensis"

Karel Dolezal - Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacky University  - Czech Republic

"New cytokinin derivatives – their discovery, development and use for micropropagation of endangered tree species."

12:30

Lunch (on your own -  lunch available for purchase at the Ecoresort restaurant for people not staying at the Ecoresort)

14:00 -  14:30

Poster viewing - Presenting session: COST workshop

14:30 - 18:00

SESSION 8. GENOMIC, PROTEOMIC AND METABOLOMIC TECHNOLOGIES

Chairs:  Jeff Dean, Ron Sederoff

Invited speakers

14:30

Alexander (Zander) Myburg - University of Pretoria - South Africa

"The Eucalyptus grandis Genome Project: Genome and transcriptome resources for comparative analysis of woody plant biology"

Jerry Tuskan - Oak Ridge National Laboratory - U.S. Department of Energy - USA

"Populus Resequencing: Towards Genome-wide Association Studies"

15:30

Georgios Pappas -  EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology - Brazil

"Eucalyptus research in the post-genome era"

16:00

Coffee break

Selected oral presentations

Jukka-Pekka Verta - Universite Laval - Canada

"Haploid transcriptome analysis reveals allelelic gene expression variants, co-expressed gene groups, and linkages between expression and copy number variation"

Leandro Neves - University of Florida  - USA

"Targeted sequencing in the loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) megagenome by exome capture."

Charles Hefer - University of Pretoria - South Africa

"The Eucalyptus Genome Integrative Explorer (EucGenIE): A resource for Eucalyptus genomics and transcriptomics"

Margit Laimer - BOKU University  - Austria

"Investigation of genetic variation in Jatropha curcas by Ecotilling and ISSR"

Matthias Fladung - Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute (vTI) - Germany

"Activation tagging in poplar by using an inducible Ac/Ds transposon system"

Jorge Paiva - IICT  IBET  - Portugal

"Building up resources and knowledge to unravel transcriptomics dynamics underlying Eucalyptus globulus xylogenesis"

18:30 -  20:30

Workshop of the COST - European Cooperation in Scientific and Technical Research - Action FP0905

“Biosafety of transgenic forest trees: improving the scientific basis for safe tree development and implementation of EU policy directives".

Chairs: Cristina Vettori and Matthias Fladung

Gilles Pilate - WG1 – “Biological characterization of genetically modified trees (GMTs)”

Fernando Gallardo  - WG2 – “Environmental impact assessment and monitoring of genetically-modified trees”

TBA - WG3 – “Socio-economic implications towards adoption of transgenic forest trees: a European perspective”

Fabio Migliacci - WG4 – “Dissemination  of Cost Action FP0905 information by website”

Steven Strauss - "Field trials of GM trees in the USA:  activity and regulatory developments"

Armand Seguin - "Research in tree genetic engineering: the Canadian context for field trial of GM trees"

Meng-Zhu Lu- "Field trials and application of transgenic trees (woody plants) in China"

Final discussion

21:00 - 1:30

Conference dinner and farewell party at the Ilha dos Aquarios (Aquarium Island) party house

9:00 - 12:00

SESSION 9. BIOSAFETY, CERTIFICATION AND ECONOMICS OF TREE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Chairs: Giancarlo Pasquali, Meng-Zhu Lu

Invited speakers

9:00

Wout Boerjan - University of Ghent - Belgium

"Science, society and biosafety of a field trial with transgenic biofuel poplars"

9:30

Maud A. W. Hinchee - Arborgen - USA

"Making Biotech Purpose-Grown Trees a Reality"

10:00

Steven H. Strauss - Oregon State University - USA

"Transgenic biotechnology in forestry: What a long strange trip it´s been"

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break (short)

Selected oral presentations

Adam Costanza - Institute of Forest Biotechnology  - USA

"Highly regulated but can’t be certified as sustainable. Responsible use principles are bridging the gap for biotech trees."

Katherine D'Amico - State University of New York - USA

"Assessing ectomycorrhizal associations and transgene expression in transgenic Castanea dentata"

Tina Schäfer - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Germany

"Mycorrhization of transgenic apple trees with increased resistance against fungal pathogens"

Shinya Kajita - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

“Introduction of alkali-labile units into lignin in transgenic plants by genetic engineering"

Giancarlo Pasquali - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul  - Brazil

"Environmental and health risk assessments of genetically modified eucalypts in Brazil"

12:00

Wrap-up  - Conclusions and directions

Chair: Dario Grattapaglia

"Wrappers": Shawn Mansfield and Matias Kirst