ProCoGen Dissemination Workshop 1st-3rd September, 2014 Kámoni Arboretum Szombathely, Hungary
“Genomics and the conservation of conifer genetic resources”
is financially supported by the European Commissionunder the 7th Framework
Programme
9.00 - 12:00 Arrival & Registration
13:00 – 13:30 Berthold Heinze (Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW) Austria): Genomics and conifer conservation
13:30 – 14:00 Vedhu Krystufek (Federal Research and Training Centre forForests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW) Austria): ProCoGen highlights
14:00 – 14:10 FORGER partners: FORGER FP7 EU project- a short introduction
14:10 – 14:40 Csaba Mátyás (University of West Hungary, Inst. of Environmental and Earth Challenges of climate changes for conservation of genetic resources
14:45 – 15:45 Maria Hoehn (University of Budapest, Department of Botany, Hungary): Did human mediated processes shape phylogeographic pattern of Carpathian pine populations?
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin (Institute of Plant Genetics- Florence, Italian National Council of Research (IGV-FI/CNR) Italy): Dissecting the role of demography and natural selection in shaping population genetic structure in conifers
17:00 – 17:45 Open Forum Research and applied interests of participants, plans & proposal for the future, interaction with speakers.Suggestions for avoiding maintaining a constant flux of information and knowledge transfer. Relevance of genetic research for forest management and conservation practices.
2nd Sep. 2014
9:00 – 12:00 Excursion to Forest Research Institute Sárvár
Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Bruno Fady (French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) Avignon, France):
The genetic composition of marginal populations, the conservation of genetic resources
14:00 – 15:00 Stephen Cavers (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) UK: Conifer case studies
Coffee break
15:20 – 16:50 Excursion to the Kámoni Arboretum
16:50 – 17:20 Clara Cseke (University of West Hungary (NymE) Hungary): Hybridization and recruitment in a mixed stand with 3 different oak species
17:20 – 17:40 Csaba Mátyás (University of West Hungary, Inst. of Environmental and Earth Sciences (NymE) Hungary)
Hungary and Hungarians- some witty anecdotes
Programme
3rd Sep. 2014
8:45 – 9:45 Konstantin Krutovsky (Georg August University of Göttingen, Dept. of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Germany): Sequencing and conservation genomics
9:45 – 10:45 Gunnar Jansson (Skogforsk, Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala, Sweden): Swedish programme for conifer conservation and breeding
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Sándor Bordács (National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH), Hungary):
Restoration of rare or endangered species based on examples of black poplar
11:30 – 12:00 Kurt Ramskogler (LIECO GmbH & Co KG, Austria): Genetics in a commercial conifer nursery
12:00 – 12:30 N. N.(to be confirmed): The perspective of forest landowners with regards to conifer genomic research
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:40 General discussion and distribution of certificates of participation
End