First conference: “Challenges in tree resistance breeding”

Date: June 7–9, 2016

Location: Punkaharju, Finland

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The specific aim of the 1st HealGenCAR conference was to bring together people working with forest genetics, tree breeding and forest health issues in Nordic countries to discuss timely topics and potential joint efforts in the future. The meeting included scientific indoor sessions on 7.-8.6., and a field excursion by bus on 9.6., starting at Punkaharju and ending at the airport in Helsinki.

Here you can download the HealGenCAR First Conference program.

 

PRESENTATIONS:

Tuesday   June 7
Tuija Aronen: HealGenCAR Aims and Activities
Karoliina Niemi: Forest health – a corner stone of the successful forest-based industry
Teemu Teeri: Developmental changes in Scots pine transcriptome during heartwood formation
Anni Harju: Development of high-throughput phenotyping of Scots pine heartwood stilbenes.
Ilze Snepste: Cloning, expression and antimicrobial activity of a thaumatin – like protein from Pinus sylvestris
Hans Peter Ravn: Review of current pests in the Nordic countries 
Olle Rosenberg: Dendroctonus micans- a friend or foe in spruce seed orchards
Heli Viiri: Pine weevil research in Finland
Igor Yakovlev: Complex regulation of repeat domain proteins during stress and development in Norway spruce
 
Wednesday   June 8
 
Christer Björkman: Global change and plant resistance against pests
Elina Oksanen: Acclimation of northern forest trees to rapidly changing environment – Insights from the Betula studies.
Hans Peter Ravn: New insects on trees in Denmark – invasive and climate change related
Jarkko Hantula: The threat of East Asian pathogens to Nordic Forests
Seppo Ruotsalainen: Pine wood nematode resistance in Finnsih plus-tree progenies of Scots pine.
Baiba Krivmane: Conservative microRNA studies and analyses in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L)
Curt Almqvist: Biocontrol of cherry spruce rust disease caused by Thekopsora areolate