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Session Length Details:

Keynote       : 45 minutes including Q&A
Plenary        : 30 minutes presentation + 10 minutes Q&A
Invited          : 25 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A

 

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Keynote, Plenary and Confirmed Invited Speakers

Title of Papers

1

Freezailah Che' Yeom
Malaysian Timber Certification Council

Sustainable Forest Management in Malaysia

2

David B. Neale
Department of Plant Sciences,
University of California, Davis, USA.

Genomic approaches to forest health management and tree breeding.

3

Arif Anwar
Malaysian Genomics Resource Center

1. Bioinformatics for next generation sequencing

2. Novel approaches for de novo annotation of complex genomes

4

Brad Potts
School of Plant Science,
University of Tasmania, Australia

Assessing and managing the risk of gene flow from forest tree plantings: The case of Eucalyptus in Australia.

5

Carl J. Douglas
Department of Botany,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Transcriptome resequencing of Populus trichocarpa individuals from northwestern North America: gene expression, genetic diversity, and implications for association genetics.

6

Charles H. Cannon
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Comparative genomics of tropical Fagaceae: insights into biogeographic and phenotypic variation

7

Chris Hardwood

CSIRO, Australia

Genetic variation in growth and wood density of Acacia hybrid clones in different regions of Vietnam

8

Andrew Lowe
University of Adelaide, Australia

Seeing the forest from the trees: Australian tree biodiversity

9

Dorothy Steane
School of Plant Science,
University of Tasmania, Australia.

Application of Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) in  Eucalyptus phylogeny reconstruction: from populations to species

10

Abdul Rasip Abdul Ghani
Forest Research Institute Malaysia

Progress and challenges in plant improvement of forest species

11

Giovanni G. Vendramin
Istituto Miglioramento Genetico Piante Forestali,
C.N.R., Italy

Analysis and conservation of genetically depauperate but widespread forest species: Pinus pinea, a case study.

12

Yuji Isagi
Graduate School of Agriculture,
Kyoto University, Japan.

Processes of effective pollen flow inferred by single pollen genotyping and parentage analysis for different growth stages of trees.

13

Kodi Isparan Kandasamy
Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM)

The prospect of propagating tropical forest tree species through tissue culture

14

Nagulendran a/l Kangayatkarasu
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), Malaysia.

Emerging Issues in Biodiversity Management.

15

Naoki Tani
Forestry Division,
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Japan.

Patterns of pollen dispersal and male fecundity variation throughout three general flowering events for an undisturbed and selective logged hill Dipterocarp species.

16

Nghiem Quynh Chi

Forest Science Institute of Vietnam, Vietnam

Ploidy level effects on floral morphology of Acacia mangium and Acacia auriculiformis

17

Om P. Rajora
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management,
University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Genetic and evolutionary impacts of forestry practices and forest fragmentation in Northern conifers: implications for genetic resource conservation

18

Reiner Finkeldey
Büsgen-Institute,
Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding,
University of Göttingen, Germany.

Genetic Variation of Dipterocarps: Novel Applications in Conservation.

19

Rene Vaillancourt
School of Plant Science,
University of Tasmania, Australia.

Detection of QTL influencing growth and wood properties in multiple pedigrees of Eucalyptus globulus

20

Rod Griffin
School of Plant Science,
University of Tasmania, Australia.

Appropriate propagation technologies for commercial hardwood plantations in the tropics

21

Simon Southerton
CSIRO Plant Industry,
Black Mountain Laboratories,
Canberra, Australia.

Functional characterisation of genes and alleles influencing xylem development in Eucalyptus and P. radiata

22

Stephen Cavers
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK

Neutral and adaptive drivers of diversity in Cedrela odorata: a rangewide study

23

Judy Loo
Bioversity International

From theory to practice: bridging the gap between genomics information and conservation on the ground

 

 

 
 
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