Click on one of the link below to reach the list of Accepted Papers for Oral Presentations.  
All presentations will be presented in English.

List of Accepted Paper for Posters can be seen by clicking here.

• IUFRO-CTIA Main Conference Oral Presentations (August 26-28)
• Arborea-Treenomix Joint Genomics Workshop Oral Presentations (August 25)
• CTIA Tree Seed Working Group Workshop Oral Presentations (August 25)
• CTIA Wood Quality Group Workshop Oral Presentations (August 25)

Oral presentations are 20 minutes including questions.

• Frederic AUSTERLITZ
  Estimation of pollen dispersal curves and heterogeneity in male fecundity from genetic data in plants
  
  
• Leonard BARNHARDT, Deogratias M. RWEYONGEZA, Narinder K. DHIR, Christine HANSEN 
  Performance of Canada range-wide white spruce provenances in Alberta
  
  
• Catherine C. BASTIEN, Nicolas CHENAULT, Arnaud DOWKIW, Veronique JORGE, Marc VILLAR, Marie JUTEAU, Vanina GUERIN, Romain VALADE, Antoine DAUNAY, Jose ALMEIDA, Etienne KLEIN
  Pollen flow between Lombardy poplar and natural populations of black poplar
  
  
• Jean BEAULIEU, Sébastien CLÉMENT, Brian BOYLE, Marie DESLAURIERS, Stéphanie BEAUSEIGLE, Sylvie BLAIS, Pier-Luc POULIN, Patrick LENZ, Philippe RIGAULT, Jean BOUSQUET, John MACKAY
  Association mapping for wood characters in white spruce implicating hundreds of genes and common SNPs
  
  
• Andrew BOWER, David NEALE , Jill WEGRZYN , Tom BYRAM, Nick WHEELER, David HARRY, Glenn HOWE, Steve MCKEAND, Ross WHETTEN, Dudley HUBER, Dana NELSON, Brad ST. CLAIR, Jeff DEAN 
  The Conifer Translational Genomics Network
  
  
• Brian BOYLE, Claude BOMAL, Sébastien CARON, Nathalie PAVY, Marie DESLAURIERS, Sébastien CLÉMENT, Nancy DALLAIRE, Isabelle GIGUÈRE, Pier-Luc POULIN, Vicky ROY, Frank BEDON, Caroline LEVASSEUR, Laurence TREMBLAY, Marie-Josée MORENCY, Janice COOKE, Armand SÉGUIN, Jean BEAULIEU, John MACKAY 
  Wood property candidate gene selection for association studies in white spruce: A multifaceted approach
  
  
• Jaroslaw BURCZYK, Igor CHYBICKI, Monika LITKOWIEC, Monika DERING, Magdalena TROJANKIEWICZ, Andrzej LEWANDOWSKI 
  The interplay between gene flow and phenology: Does gene flow affect local adaptation in forest trees?
  
  
• Igor CHYBICKI, Magdalena TROJANKIEWICZ, Andrzej OLEKSA, Artur DZIALUK, Jaroslaw BURCZYK
  Isolation by distance within naturally established pure beech stands
  
  
• Trevor DOERKSEN, Christophe HERBINGER
  Integrating functional growth curves and family genetic structure into plus tree selection
  
  
• Andrew J. ECKERT, Jill L. WEGRZYN, Barnaly PANDE, Brandon R. TEARSE, Kathleen D. JERMSTAD, Jennifer M. LEE, John D. LIECHTY, Konstantin V. KRUTOVSKY, David B. NEALE 
  Patterns of nucleotide diversity and selective neutrality across 125 candidate genes putatively associated with cold tolerance in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pinaceae)
  
  
• Ingo ENSMINGER, Florian BUSCH, Sébastien CARON, Laurentiu A. TARCA, John MACKAY, Norm P.A. HÜNER 
  Air temperature exerts stronger control than photoperiod over the molecular regulation of cold hardening in needles of Pinus banksiana
  
  
• Bénédicte FAVREAU, Jean-Marc BOUVET
  Analysis of the CAD2 gene polymorphism in Eucalyptus urophylla population along altitudinal gradient in Timor Island
  
  
• Rosario GARCIA-GIL, Sara ABRAHAMSSON
  Clinal response to light composition in Scots pine
  
  
• Sébastien GÉRARDI, Juan Pablo JARAMILLO-CORREA, Jean BEAULIEU, Jean BOUSQUET
  The postglacial and demographic history of black spruce inferred from chloroplast DNA microsatellite data
  
  
• Julie GODBOUT, Jean BEAULIEU, Jean BOUSQUET 
  Postglacial history of the Maritimes in Eastern Canada: Inferences from jack pine (Pinus banksiana), a boreal tree species
  
  
• Delphine GRIVET, Federico SEBASTIANI, Ricardo ALÍA, Giovanni G. VENDRAMIN, Santiago C. GONZÁLEZ-MARTÍNEZ 
  Dissecting the role of demography and natural selection in shaping population genetic structure of two Mediterranean conifers: Pinus pinaster and Pinus halepensis
  
  
• Niclas GYLLENSTRAND, David CLAPHAM, Thomas KÄLLMAN, Ulf LAGERCRANTZ 
  A Norway spruce FLOWERING LOCUS T homolog is implicated in control of growth rhythm in conifers
  
  
• Ole K. HANSEN, Ulrik B. NIELSEN 
  More efficient breeding of Nordmann fir using microsatellites?
  
  
• Jason HOLLIDAY, Jörg BOHLMANN, Kermit RITLAND, Sally AITKEN 
  Diversity and selection in a suite of cold hardiness-related candidate genes in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)
  
  
• Pär K. INGVARSSON , David HALL, Xiao-Fei MA, Virginia LUQUEZ, Stefan JANSSON 
  The genetic basis of adaptations in bud phenology across a latitudinal gradient in European aspen (Populus tremula)
  
  
• Juan Pablo JARAMILLO-CORREA, Erika AGUIRRE-PLANTER, Damase P. KHASA, Luis EGUIARTE, Daniel PIÑERO, Glenn FURNIER, Jean BOUSQUET
  Molecular biogeography of Mesoamerican firs: From the Pliocene ancestors to the remnants of the Holocene collapse
  
  
• Rebecca C. JONES, Valérie HECHT, Peter L. GORE, Bradley M. POTTS, Dorothy A. STEANE, René E. VAILLANCOURT, James L. WELLER 
  Expression of FLOWERING LOCUS T and LEAFY homologues are temporally associated with annual flower bud initiation in Eucalyptus globulus
  
  
• Rebecca C. JONES, Dorothy A. STEANE, Bradley M. POTTS, René E. VAILLANCOURT 
  Molecular evolution in complex forest tree gene pools: The case of Eucalyptus globulus in Southeastern Australia
  
  
• Thomas KÄLLMAN, Jun CHEN, Jing HUANG, Li YUAN, Jian-Quan LIU, Martin LASCOUX 
  Estimating parameters of speciation model in spruce species
  
  
• Karolyn R. KEIR, Sally N. AITKEN
  Beautiful, charismatic but lacking diversity: The story of Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) as told through microsatellite and chloroplast sequence data
  
  
• Erik D. KJAER, Iben M. THOMSEN, Lene R. NIELSEN, Ditte C. OLRIK, Ole K. HANSEN 
  Genetic variation in Fraxinus excelsior in symptoms of novel Ash dieback in Denmark
  
  
• Francisco J. LARIO, Beatriz CUENCA, Luis OCAÑA 
  Reference materials for shape butt log early selection trials of Pinus pinaster Ait.
  
  
• Camille LEPOITTEVIN, Pauline GARNIER-GERE, François HUBERT, Christophe PLOMION 
  Strong linkage disequilibrium and balanced selection in Pinus pinaster transcription factors putatively involved in wood formation
  
  
• Pengxin LU, Darren DERBOWKA
  Performances of backcrosses of eastern white pine interspecific hybrids in Ontario
  
  
• David MACAYA, Nuria ALBA, Unai LÓPEZ-DE-HEREDIA, Carmen MAESTRO, Miriam HEUERTZ, Ricardo ALÍA, Santiago César GONZÁLEZ-MARTÍNEZ 
  Spatial genetic structure of natural populations of white poplar (Populus alba L.) at regional and local scales
  
  
• Alejandro MARTINEZ-MEIER, Philippe ROZENBERG, Leopoldo SANCHEZ
  Genetic control of wood formation and plasticity in Douglas-fir clones
  
  
• Marie-Claire NAMROUD, Jean BEAULIEU, Jean BOUSQUET 
  A genome scan of gene SNPs to assess the impact of first-generation artificial selection on white spruce genetic diversity
  
  
• Charalambos NEOPHYTOU, Aki HÖLTKEN, Aikaterini DOUNAVI, Filippos ARAVANOPOULOS 
  Cross-species spatial and taxonomic differentiation patterns in oak - an approach with microsatellite markers
  
  
• Greg O'NEILL
  Climate-based seed transfer and assisted migration used to mitigate climate change impacts to forests
  
  
• Nathalie PAVY, Stéphanie BEAUSEIGLE, France GAGNON, Nathalie ISABEL, Jean BOUSQUET 
  A survey of nucleotide diversity across expressed genes in white spruce
  
  
• Nathalie PAVY, Brian BOYLE, Colleen NELSON, Charles PAULE, Isabelle GIGUÈRE, Sébastien CARON, Lee S. PARSONS, Nancy DALLAIRE, Frank BEDON, Hugo BÉRUBÉ, Janice COOKE, John MACKAY
  Identification of conserved core xylem gene sets:  Conifer cDNA microarray development, transcript profiling and computational analyses
  
  
• Nathalie PAVY, Betty PELGAS, Jérôme LAROCHE, Nathalie ISABEL, Jean BOUSQUET 
  Mapping and phylogenetic analysis of spruce genes for deciphering the structural evolution of the conifer genome
  
  
• Betty PELGAS, Patrick G. MEIRMANS, Kermit RITLAND, Catherine DHONT, Janice COOKE, Jean BOUSQUET, Nathalie ISABEL
  Identification of QTL influencing adaptive traits in white spruce
  
  
• Andrea R. PLUESS
  Pursuing glacier retreat: Genetic challenges for the spread of Larix decidua
  
  
• Julien PRUNIER, Jean BEAULIEU, Jérôme LAROCHE, Jean BOUSQUET
  A genome scan of gene SNPs for the search of polymorphisms involved in adaptive population differentiation in black spruce
  
  
• Tanja PYHÄJÄRVI, Sonja T. KUJALA, Outi SAVOLAINEN
  What accounts for high protein heterozygosity and low nucleotide diversity in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)?
  
  
• Philippe RIGAULT, Brian BOYLE, Nathalie ISABEL, John MACKAY, Jean BOUSQUET
  454 sequencing in white spruce as an alternative source of ESTs and SNPs
  
  
• Kermit RITLAND, Ilga PORTH, Jun ZHUANG, Nima FARZANEH, Carol RITLAND, Joerg BOHLMANN
  Expression QTL mapping for weevil resistance in white spruce
  
  
• Juan J. ROBLEDO-ARNUNCIO, Cristina GARCIA 
  Estimation of the seed dispersal kernel from exact identification of source trees
  
  
• Philippe ROZENBERG, Guillermina DALLA-SALDA, Alejandro MARTINEZ-MEIER, Leopoldo SANCHEZ 
  Investigating wood to understand adaptation
  
  
• John RUSSELL, Alvin YANCHUK, Bruce KIMBALL, Matti ROUSI
  Limitations and opportunities in breeding and deploying mammal-resistant trees
  
  
• Vilnis SKIPARS, Aris JANSONS, Arnis GAILIS, Imants BAUMANIS, Ilze VEINBERGA, Dainis RUNGIS
  Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure in Latvian Pinus sylvestris populations using nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial SSR markers
  
  
• Peter E. SMOUSE, Victoria SORK, Delphine GRIVET, Doug SCOFIELD
  Maternal analysis of Valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) recruits, using mixed pericarp and seedling assay
  
  
• Victoria SORK, Frank DAVIS, Delphine GRIVET
  Incorporating geographical genetics into climate change models of California Valley oak (Quercus lobata)
  
  
• Philippe A. STANKOWSKI, William H. PARKER
  Climate envelope modelling and Salix in Ontario: An evaluation of logistic regression analysis and distributional data
  
  
• Stacey Lee THOMPSON, Manuel LAMOTHE, Valérie LEVÉE, Patrick G. MEIRMANS, Pierre PERINET, Jean BOUSQUET, Nathalie ISABEL 
  An applied population genomic approach to assess the risks posed by trees with novel traits
  
  
• Motoshi TOMITA, Yoshihisa SUYAMA
  Magnitude of early inbreeding depression of an isolated, relict population of Sakhalin spruce (Picea glehnii Mast.)
  
  
• Jordi VOLTAS
  Climatic adaptation and intraspecific variability in water-use efficiency: The case of two Iberian forest species (Juglans regia L. and Pinus halepensis Mill.)
  
  
• Jill WEGRZYN, Jennifer M. LEE, Andrew J. ECKERT, Brian J. STANTON, Mark F. DAVIS, Chung-Jui TSAI, David B. NEALE 
  Discovery of genes for improved cellulose and cellulose-extractability from poplar secondary xylem
  
  
• Xiaoxin WEI, Zuyu YANG, Yan LI, Xiaoquan WANG 
  Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Pseudotsuga (Pinaceae): Insights into the floristic relationship between Taiwan and its adjacent areas
  
  
• Keith WOESTE, Zhonglian HUANG, Richard MEILAN 
  The genetic regulation of heartwood formation in black walnut (Juglans nigra L.)
  
  
• Keith WOESTE, John McLAUGHLIN, Glenna Halicki HAYDEN, Hannah BERGEMAN
  Butternut genetic diversity and the detection of butternut hybrids: Implications for breeding an endangered species
  

To top

List of presentations so far.

Oral presentations are 20 minutes including questions.

• Eric ABBOTT, Jörg BOHLMANN
  Cutting trees with lasers: Characterizing conifer defense in single cell types
  
  
• Joerg BOHLMANN
  Terpenoid synthases in conifer defense
  
  
• Claude BOMAL, Frank BEDON, Sébastien CARON, Shawn D. MANSFIELD, Axel SCHMIDT, Caroline LEVASSEUR, Brian BOYLE, Jacqueline GRIMA-PETTENATI, Armand SÉGUIN, John MACKAY 
  MYB14, a member of new subgroup of R2R3 MYB sequences, is identified as a putative actor in wound response in conifers
  
  
• Jean BOUSQUET, Stéphanie BEAUSEIGLE, Sylvie BLAIS, Sébastien CLÉMENT, Marie DESLAURIERS, Jean-Philippe DIONNE, Joël FILLON, Manuel LAMOTHE, Philippe RIGAULT, Jean BEAULIEU, Nathalie ISABEL
  The efficiency of a highly multiplexed SNP genotyping assay for the conifer Picea
  
  
• Rebecca DAUWE, Kermit RITLAND, Shawn D. MANSFIELD
  Combining global metabolite profiling, QTL analysis and network analysis to elucidate weevil resistance in interior spruce
  
  
• Isabelle DUVAL, Denis LACHANCE, Caroline LEVASSEUR, Marie-Josée MORENCY, Gervais PELLETIER, Armand SÉGUIN
  An in vitro approach for studying gene regulation in spruce: The tango of transcription factors and gene promoters
  
  
• Walid EL KAYAL, Carmen C.G. ALLEN, Chelsea J.-T. JU, Susanne KING-JONES, Janice E.K. COOKE
  Genomic analyses of bud formation in white spruce
  
  
• Leonardo GALINDO, Janice E.K. COOKE
  Characterization of differentially expressed proteins during dormancy acquisition in white spruce (Picea glauca)
  
  
• Björn HAMBERGER, Toshiyuki OHNISHI, Britta HAMBERGER, Jörg BOHLMANN
  Functional genomics in conifer defence: Cytochromes P450 in resin acid formation
  
  
• Cherdsak LIEWLAKSANEEYANAWIN, Jun ZHUANG, Susan FINDLAY, Leyla TABANFAR, Michelle TANG, Nima FARZANEH, Gillian LUENG, Claire CULLIS, Tristan GILLAN, Carol E. RITLAND, Joerg BOHLMANN, Kermit RITLAND
  Comparative mapping between white spruce and loblolly pine
  
  
• Juan Fernando PETRINOVIC, Nancy GÉLINAS, Jean BEAULIEU
  Forest genomics: Tool of sustainable development
  
  
• Pier-Luc POULIN, Patrick LENZ, Kathy WOO, Jean BEAULIEU, John MACKAY
  Association studies of white spruce wood traits: Assessment of physical and chemical properties
  
  
• Philippe RIGAULT, Brian BOYLE, Janice COOKE, John MACKAY
  GCAT. An EST-based gene catalogue for white spruce
  
  
• Kermit RITLAND, Ligia MATEIU, Nima FARZANEH, Carol RITLAND, Joerg BOHLMANN
  SNP discovery and association mapping in the Treenomix project
  
  
• Jeanne ROBERT, Dawn HALL, Chris KEELING, Britta HAMBERGER, Joerg BOHLMANN
  Formation of 3-carene in Sitka spruce that are resistant or susceptible to attack by white pine weevil
  
  
• Olaf SCHWAB, Clive WELHAM, Brad SEELY, Gary BULL
  Assessing the economic impact of introducing weevil-resistant spruce in British Columbia
  

To top

• Fabienne COLAS, Patrick BALDET, Michèle BETTEZ 
  Water activity : A new tool for moisture management of seedlots in tree seed centres
  
  
• Dave KOLOTELO
  The ex-situ genetic conservation plan for British Columbia tree species
  
  
• Anne SAVARY, André DESHAIES, Donatien LÉVESQUE
  Zoom in on the seed production in Quebec
  
  
• Dale SIMPSON
  Conservation of genetic diversity by tree seed centres
  
  
• Denise TOUSIGNANT, Mohammed S. LAMHAMEDI, Fabienne COLAS, Michel RIOUX 
  Seed size and family effects on vegetative propagation rates of stockplants for the mass cutting propagation of white spruce (Picea glauca) in Québec
  
  
• Laurence TREMBLAY, Mohammed S. LAMHAMEDI, Fabienne COLAS, André RAINVILLE, Jean-Yves GUAY 
  An integrated approach to preserve and multiply improved material of white spruce by somatic embryogenesis
  
  
• Nicolas VIONNET
  French forestry pattern: From seed to plant
  
  
• Jack WOODS
  Meeting provincial seed production objectives in British Columbia: Systems for ranking priorities and determining orchard size

To top

• Jean BEAULIEU, S.Y. (Tony) ZHANG, Pier-Luc POULIN
  Development of an economic weight-based selection strategy for maximum economic value
  
  
• Rowland D. BURDON
  Trees: Structural marvels but very imperfect wood factories
  
  
• Yousry A. EL-KASSABY, Shawn D. MANSFIELD 
  In situ wood quality assessment in Douglas-fir
  
  
• Fikret ISIK
  Inheritance of physical and chemical wood quality traits in Pinus taeda
  
  
• Patrick LENZ, Pier-Luc POULIN, Kathy WOO, John MACKAY, Jean BEAULIEU 
  Genetic control of wood properties of white spruce: Trends with cambial age
  
  
• Young-In (David) PARK, Ahmed KOUBAA
  Effect of cyclophysis on intra-ring components of growth and wood density of jack pine
  
  
• John RUSSELL, Bob DANIELS
  Genetic parameters for tropolones associated with Thuja plicata heartwood durability

To top