Monday Speakers
| Start | End | Duration | Topic | Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | 10:00am | 60 min | TreeSnap/TreeSnapPlots | Meg Staton | 106 FRB |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm | 2 hours | CartograPlant/TreeGenes | Jill Wegrzyn | 107 FRB |
| 1:00pm | 5:00pm | 4 hours | North American Quantitative Genetics Workshop | Fikret Isik | 107 FRB |
| 3:00pm | 4:00pm | 1 hour | Hemlock Working Group Meeting (Organizer: Vidya Vuruputoor) | 331 FRB | |
| 3:00pm | 4:00pm | 1 hour | Northern Forest Genetics Association Meeting | 106 FRB | |
| 4:00pm | 6:00pm | 2 hours | Opening Reception | TBD | Arboretum |
Tuesday Speakers
| Start | End | Duration | Topic | Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30am | 8:30am | 60 min | Registration Desk Open and Breakfast Snacks | Lewis Katz Building | |
| 8:30am | 8:35am | 5 min | Opening & Welcome: Dr. Jill Hamilton, Lead Organizer of the Joint Meeting | 118 Katz | |
| 8:35am | 8:45am | 10 min | Opening & Welcome: Matt Keefer, Pennsylvania DCNR Bureau of Forestry Assistant Director of Stewardship, Protection and Conservation | 118 Katz | |
| 8:45am | 8:55am | 10 min | Opening & Welcome: Dr. Blair Siegfried, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education & Director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experimental Station | 118 Katz | |
| 8:55am | 9:00am | 5 min | Keynote Intros: Genomic Tools in Forest Health Conservation, Restoration, and Breeding | Meg Staton | 118 Katz |
| 9:00am | 9:50am | 50 min | A TALE OF TWO PANDEMICS FROM A HOST GENOME PERSPECTIVE | Richard Buggs | 118 Katz |
| 9:50am | 10:05am | 15 min | Facilitating brown spot needle blight resistance screening for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) with artificial inoculations | Rhys Eshleman | 118 Katz |
| 10:05am | 10:25am | 20 min | Break | Lewis Katz Building | |
| 10:25am | 10:30am | 5 min | Keynote Intros: Genomic Tools in Forest Health Conservation, Restoration, and Breeding | Meg Staton | 118 Katz |
| 10:30am | 11:20am | 50 min | NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO THE RESCUE: OPTIMIZING THE SELECTION AND DEPLOYMENT OF GENETICALLY IMPROVED TREES | Caterina Villari | 118 Katz |
| 11:20am | 11:35am | 15 min | Genomic selection across generations in Norway Spruce, evaluated with real and simulated data | Edward Carlsson | 118 Katz |
| 11:35am | 1:30pm | 1 hr 55 min | Lunch | Business Atrium | |
| FOREST HEALTH, PESTS and PATHOGENS | |||||
| 1:30pm | 1:45pm | 15 min | Lingering Hemlock Search Project: We need your help to restore the mighty hemlock | Olivia Hall | 107 Business |
| 1:45pm | 2:00pm | 15 min | ADVANCING GENOMIC RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION EFFORTS FOR A NORTH AMERICAN WALNUT THREATENED BY A NON-NATIVE FUNGAL PATHOGEN | Cynthia Webster | 107 Business |
| 2:00pm | 2:15pm | 15 min | STRUCTURAL VARIATION AND ASSEMBLY ARTIFACTS IN TWO FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA GENOMES INVESTIGATING CANDIDATE GENES FOR BEECH BARK DISEASE RESISTANCE | Airianna McGuire | 107 Business |
| 2:15pm | 2:30pm | 15 min | ISOBORNYL ACETATE OVERDRIVE: AN ‘OMICS’ LENS INTO THE EASTERN HEMLOCK’S SEASONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY AGAINST THE HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID | Vidya Vuruputoor | 107 Business |
| 2:30pm | 2:45pm | 15 min | TURNING INVASIVE PESTS AGAINST THEMSELVES – PROTECTING TREES WITH ANTI-PEST-SPECIFIC TREATMENTS | Dana Nelson (presented by Thomas Michaels) | 107 Business |
| 2:45pm | 3:00pm | 15 min | AN ASSAY TO ACCELERATE SCREENING FOR RESISTANCE TO DUTCH ELM DISEASE IN AMERICAN ELM TREES | Cornelia Pinchot Wilson | 107 Business |
| TREE IMPROVEMENT and BREEDING | |||||
| 1:30pm | 1:45pm | 15 min | Collaborative Seed Orchard Program to Supplement White Oak (Quercus alba) Tree Improvement Efforts | Laura DeWald | 108 Business |
| 1:45pm | 2:00pm | 15 min | EFFECTS OF ABSCISIC ACID (ABA) ON MATURATION AND GERMINATION OF NORTH AMERICAN ASH (FRAXINUS SPP.) SOMATIC EMBRYOS | Emma Land | 108 Business |
| 2:00pm | 2:15pm | 15 min | Performance of tolerant population of European ash in clonal and progeny trials in Sweden | Beatrice Tolio | 108 Business |
| 2:15pm | 2:30pm | 15 min | A COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO IMPLEMENTING SEED SOURCE TRIALS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST | Stuart Olshevski | 108 Business |
| 2:30pm | 2:45pm | 15 min | INCORPORATING GENETIC GAINS INTO LOBLOLLY PINE YIELD MODELING | Yuhui Weng | 108 Business |
| 2:45pm | 3:00pm | 15 min | AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING ADVENTURE ROOT INDUCTION IN RECALCITANT SPECIES | Haiying Liang | 108 Business |
| POPULATION and QUANTITATIVE GENETICS | |||||
| 1:30pm | 1:45pm | 15 min | Hybridization and Adaptation: The Genetic History of Shortleaf Pine | Austin Thomas | 110 Business |
| 1:45pm | 2:00pm | 15 min | Unraveling population structure and genetic diversity of eastern cottonwood from the U.S. Forest Service breeding program | Carlos Rivera | 110 Business |
| 2:00pm | 2:15pm | 15 min | CHANCE OR PATTERN: DISTRIBUTION OF MAJOR GENE RESISTANCE TO THE NON-NATIVE PATHOGEN THAT CAUSES WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST | Kelly Kerr | 110 Business |
| 2:15pm | 2:30pm | 15 min | ENVIRONMENT-SPECIFIC GENOMIC PREDICTION OF ASH DIEBACK RESISTANCE IN EUROPEAN ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR L.) | Jaroslaw Burczyk | 110 Business |
| 2:30pm | 2:45pm | 15 min | SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF ADAPTIVE INTROGRESSION IN A POPULUS HYBRID ZONE | Sammy Mutegi | 110 Business |
| 2:45pm | 3:00pm | 15 min | CAN ALLELE FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN POPULATIONS OF LOBLOLLY PINES BE USED TO SELECT FOR DROUGHT TOLERANCE? | Carol Loopstra | 110 Business |
| 3:00pm | 3:30pm | 30 min | Break | Business Atrium | |
| CLIMATE CHANGE and ADAPTATION | |||||
| 3:30pm | 3:45pm | 15 min | PINE SPECIES ALLOCATION ACROSS MULTIPLE COUNTRIES UNDER DIFFERENT CLIMATE SCENARIOS | Ricardo Cavalheiro | 107 Business |
| 3:45pm | 4:00pm | 15 min | ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF PLANTED SEEDLING MORTALITY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST | Tal Shalev | 107 Business |
| 4:00pm | 4:15pm | 15 min | Introgression as a buffer against maladaptation in a keystone northern forest tree | Nora Heaphy | 107 Business |
| 4:15pm | 4:30pm | 15 min | From seed to seedling: adaptation to climate in early life stages of Quercus alba populations within an assisted migration framework | Laura Leites | 107 Business |
| 4:30pm | 4:45pm | 15 min | INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF GENETICS AND ENVIRONMENT ON DOUGLAS-FIR SEEDLING RESPONSES TO DROUGHT AND EXTREME TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS | Emily Von Blon | 107 Business |
| 4:45pm | 5:00pm | 15 min | |||
| TREE IMPROVEMENT and BREEDING | |||||
| 3:30pm | 3:45pm | 15 min | COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING GENE DIVERSITY AND GROWTH POTENTIAL OF CROPS BY MEAN OF SELECTIVE CONE HARVEST IN A SEED ORCHARD OF PINUS KORAIENSIS | Ye-Ji Kim | 108 Business |
| 3:45pm | 4:00pm | 15 min | Pollen Viability Testing Methods to Predict Seed Yields in Loblolly Pine | Austin Heine | 108 Business |
| 4:00pm | 4:15pm | 15 min | GIRDLING TOPGRAFTED PINUS TAEDA TO INDUCE STROBILI PRODUCTION | Christopher Heim | 108 Business |
| 4:15pm | 4:30pm | 15 min | Phenology of flower receptivity in a Pinus Taeda breeding orchard can be predicted with heat sums | Mackenzie Bowman | 108 Business |
| 4:30pm | 4:45pm | 15 min | ROTATION-AGE ASSESSMENT OF REALIZED GENETIC GAIN IN SLASH PINE (Pinus elliottii var. elliottii) | Andrew Sims | 108 Business |
| 4:45pm | 5:00pm | 15 min | Woody diversity and carbon stock of cocoa-based agroforestry systems on the outskirts of forest concessions in southern Cameroon | Dong Etchike | 108 Business |
| FOREST HEALTH | |||||
| 3:30pm | 3:45pm | 15 min | HISTORICAL GENETIC AND TREE STUDIES DIRECTORY | Katie Grong | 110 Business |
| 3:45pm | 4:00pm | 15 min | A REGIONAL FOREST HEALTH COLLABORATIVE FOR TREE IMPROVEMENT BREEDING AGAINST INVASIVE PESTS AND DISEASES | Rachel Kappler | 110 Business |
| 4:00pm | 4:15pm | 15 min | ROLE OF SUPPRESSED RECOMBINATION IN THE ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF THE HAWAIIAN METROSIDEROS | Askhan Shametov | 110 Business |
| 4:15pm | 4:30pm | 15 min | QuerChaos: Challenges of Conserving a West Texas Red Oak Syngameon | Adam Black | 110 Business |
| 4:30pm | 4:45pm | 15 min | ADAPTIVE TRAITS OF WIDE-RANGING PROVENANCES OF LONGLEAF PINE (Pinus palustris Mill.) GROWN IN THE NORTHERN EDGE OF ITS NATURAL RANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION, RESTORATION AND ASSISTED GENE FLOW | Kurt Johnsen | 110 Business |
| 4:45pm | 5:00pm | 15 min | 110 Business | ||
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | 1.0 hrs | SFTIC Business Meeting | 110 Business |
Wednesday Speakers
| Start | End | Duration | Topic | Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00am | 7:00am | 60 min | Fun Run (Organizers: Patrick Cumbie, Mary McCafferty) | Nittany Lion Inn | |
| 7:30am | 8:30am | 60 min | Registration Desk Open and Breakfast Snacks | Lewis Katz Building | |
| 8:30am | 8:35am | 5 min | Keynote Intros: Predicting Responses to the Environment Across Space and Time | Andreas Hamann | 118 Katz |
| 8:35am | 9:25am | 50 min | ASSISTED MIGRATION IN PRACTICE | Mats Berlin | 118 Katz |
| 9:25am | 9:40am | 15 min | A CLIMATE-INFORMED SEED SELECTION TOOL FOR NORTH AMERICA: NA-SST | Nicholas Boyce | 118 Katz |
| 9:40am | 10:05am | 25 min | Break | Lewis Katz Building | |
| 10:05am | 10:10am | 5 min | Keynote Intros: Predicting Responses to the Environment Across Space and Time | Andreas Hamann | 118 Katz |
| 10:10am | 11:00am | 50 min | CLIMATE CHANGE AND FALSE SPRINGS: WHEN MILD WINTERS BECOME DANGEROUS | Jessica Savage | 118 Katz |
| 11:00am | 11:15am | 15 min | THE ROLE OF CLIMATE AND INTERSPECIFIC GENE FLOW IN STOMATAL EVOLUTION ACROSS A POPULUS HYBRID ZONE | Michelle Zavala-Paez | 118 Katz |
| 11:15am | 1:00pm | 1 hr 45min | Lunch | Business Atrium | |
| 1:00pm | 5:00pm | 4 hours | Field Trips | ||
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | 1 hour | North American Forest Genetics Society Business Meeting (Organizer: Patrick Cumbie) | 108 Business | |
| 6:00pm | 9:00pm | 3 hour | Student Mixer at Champs Downtown State College (139 S Allen St., Organizer: Kyra LoPiccolo) | Champs Downtown |
Thursday Speakers
| Start | End | Duration | Topic | Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30am | 8:30am | 60 min | Registration Desk Open and Breakfast Snacks | Business Atrium | |
| GENOMICS and BIOTECHNOLOGY | |||||
| 8:30am | 8:45am | 15min | GENOMIC CLUES TO PATAGONIA’S FATE: LOCAL ADAPTATION AND FUTURE MALADAPTATION IN NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO | Jill Sekely | 107 Business |
| 8:45am | 9:00am | 15min | THE ROLE OF TELOMERES IN LONG-LIVED TREES: ARE THEY A FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS? | Diego del Orbe Matos | 107 Business |
| 9:00am | 9:15am | 15min | Gene Expression in Eastern Oak Species is Impacted by Soil Nutrient Profile | Denise Alving | 107 Business |
| 9:15am | 9:30am | 15min | A genomic portrait of regional introgression in Quercus macrocarpa | Rebekah Mohn | 107 Business |
| 9:30am | 9:45am | 15min | A PAN-GENOMIC VIEW OF INTROGRESSION IN HYBRID POPLARS | Baxter Worthing | 107 Business |
| 9:45am | 10:00am | 15min | Genomics-Enabled Resilient Lodgepole Pine Tree Improvement Strategies | Charles Chen | 107 Business |
| Symposium on North American Ash (Organizer: Zane Smith, Meg Staton) | |||||
| 8:30am | 8:40am | 10 min | PROGRESS IN EAB-RESISTANCE BREEDING PROGRAMS | Jennifer Koch | 108 Business |
| 8:40am | 8:50am | 10 min | FIELD PLANTINGS TO ASSESS EAB RESISTANCE IN THE USFS ASH BREEDING PROGRAM | Mary Mason | 108 Business |
| 8:50am | 9:00am | 10 min | GENOME SIZE AND PLOIDY VARIATION IN FRAXINUS | Alan Whittemore | 108 Business |
| 9:00am | 9:10am | 10 min | The evolution of samara morphology differences in Fraxinus nigra | Kyra LoPiccolo | 108 Business |
| 9:10am | 9:20am | 10 min | POLYPLOIDY AND HYBRIDIZATION AMONG FRAXINUS SPECIES IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK | Zane Smith | 108 Business |
| 9:20am | 9:30am | 10 min | MUCH ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: AN OCTOPLOID GENOME OF CONSERVATION CONCERN | Cris Guzman | 108 Business |
| 9:30am | 9:40am | 10 min | INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL BREEDING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR RESILIENT URBAN ASH TREES | Nathan Maren | 108 Business |
| 9:40am | 9:50am | 10 min | Genomics-driven monitoring of Fraxinus latifolia (Oregon Ash) to inform conservation and EAB-resistance breeding | Anthony Melton | 108 Business |
| 9:50am | 10:00am | 10 min | MULTI-YEAR ANALYSIS OF THE CHEMICAL DEFENSES DEPLOYED BY GREEN ASH (FRAXINUS PENNSYLVANICA) AGAINST EMERALD ASH BORER (AGRILUS PLANIPENNIS) AND THE CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION ASSOCIATED WITH SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE | Jeanne Romero-Severson | 108 Business |
| Symposium on Molecular Applications in Tree Breeding (Organizer: Fikret Isik) | |||||
| 8:30am | 8:50am | 20 min | GENOMIC RESOURCES FOR LOBLOLLY PINE GENE DISCOVERY AND BREEDING | Gary Peter | 110 Business |
| 8:50am | 9:10am | 20min | VALIDATION OF GENOMIC SELECTION ACROSS THREE GENERATIONS IN Pinus taeda | Nasir Shalizi | 110 Business |
| 9:10am | 9:30am | 20min | PEDIGREE ASSIGNMENT USING LIKELIHOOD GENOMIC RELATIONSHIPS IN A BREEDING POPULATION OF PINUS TAEDA | Carla de Oliveira Castro | 110 Business |
| 9:30am | 9:50am | 20min | ADVANCING MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION FOR BLIGHT RESISTANCE IN HYBRID CHESTNUT | Dana Nelson (presented by Austin Thomas) | 110 Business |
| 10:00am | 10:30am | 30 min | Break | Business Atrium | |
| GENOMICS and BIOTECHNOLOGY | |||||
| 10:30am | 10:45am | 15min | GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN TREE LEAF PHENOLOGY | Hanna Makowski | 107 Business |
| 10:45am | 11:00am | 15min | ASSISTED MIGRATION NEEDS OF NORTHERN RED OAK (QUERCUS RUBRA) | Carsten Kuelheim | 107 Business |
| 11:00am | 11:15am | 15min | Providing biological context for GWAS results using eQTL regulatory and co-expression networks in Populus | Mengjun Shu | 107 Business |
| 11:15am | 11:30am | 15min | A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE FUTURE ADAPTABILITY OF EASTERN BLACK WALNUT (JUGLANS NIGRA L.) USING POPULATION GENOMIC VARIATION | Vikram Chhatre | 107 Business |
| 11:30am | 11:45am | 15min | RIBOSOMAL GENE EVOLUTION IN CHESTNUT: A CYTOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE ON ADAPTATION | Nurul Islam-Faridi | 107 Business |
| 11:45am | 12:00pm | 15min | |||
| DIGITAL TOOLS, NETWORKS and MODELS | |||||
| 10:30am | 10:45am | 15min | A Deep Learning Approach to Species Distribution Modeling for North American Tree Species | Zach Zimmerman | 108 Business |
| 10:45am | 11:00am | 15min | ENHANCING FOREST RESEARCH WITH TREESNAP AND TREESNAP PLOTS: MOBILE PLATFORMS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND PHENOTYPING | Florence Caldwell | 108 Business |
| 11:00am | 11:15am | 15min | TRACKING ENVIRONMENTAL SHIFTS IN TREE BREEDING: UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING FOR MACROENVIRONMENT CLASSIFICATION | Aurelio Aguiar (presented by Ricardo Cavalheiro) | 108 Business |
| 11:15am | 11:30am | 15min | GENETICALLY DIRECTED DECISION NETWORK FOR ASSISTED MIGRATION OF EASTERN U.S. FOREST SPECIES USING WEB-BASED TOOLS | Christina Kieffer | 108 Business |
| 11:30am | 11:45am | 15min | FUTURE-PROOFING FORESTS THROUGH A GENETICALLY INFORMED REFORESTATION/RESTORATION NETWORK | Kevin Potter | 108 Business |
| 11:45am | 12:00pm | 15min | 108 Business | ||
| Symposium on Molecular Applications in Tree Breeding (Organizer: Fikret Isik) | |||||
| 10:30am | 10:50am | 20min | Genetics of Dwarfism | Pinar Guner | 110 Business |
| 10:50am | 11:10am | 20min | GENE STACKING FOR FUSIFORM RUST RESISTANCE IN PINUS TAEDA | Trevor Walker | 110 Business |
| 11:10am | 11:30am | 20min | GENOME CHARACTERIZATION AND POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CRONARTIUM QUERCUUM F.SP. FUSIFORME IN A CONTROLLED INOCULATION TRIAL | Makayla Rutski | 110 Business |
| 11:30am | 11:50am | 20min | MAJOR QTL CONFER RACE-NONSPECIFIC RESISTANCE IN THE CO-EVOLVED Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme – Pinus taeda PATHOSYSTEM | Fikret Isik | 110 Business |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | 60 min | Lunch | Business Atrium | |
| 12:30pm | 2:00pm | 1.5 hrs | Career Panel | 110 Business | |
| 2:00pm | 4:30pm | 2.5 hrs | Poster Session | Business Atrium | |
| 4:30pm | 5:30pm | 1 hr | Zoom/In-Person Society Meeting (WFGA) | 110 Business | |
| 6:00pm | 9:00pm | 3 hours | Banquet | Pegula |
Friday Speakers
| Start | End | Duration | Topic | Speakers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30am | 8:30am | 60 min | Registration Desk Open and Breakfast Snacks | Lewis Katz Building | |
| 8:30am | 8:35am | 5 min | Keynote Intros: Genomics of Climate Adaptation | Michelle Zavala-Paez | 118 Katz |
| 8:35am | 9:25am | 50 min | GENETIC VARIATION UNDERLIES DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN TREES: PREDICTING AND TAKING ADVANTAGE OF RANGEWIDE HETEROGENEITY | Alayna Mead | 118 Katz |
| 9:25am | 9:40am | 15 min | UTILIZING SOUTHERN OAK GENOTYPES AS A RESTORATION STRATEGY IN OUR NORTHEASTERN FORESTS | Samantha Fuentes-Gigliotti | 118 Katz |
| 9:40am | 10:05am | 25 min | Break | Lewis Katz Building | |
| 10:05am | 10:10am | 5 min | Keynote Intros: Genomics of Climate Adaptation | Michelle Zavala-Paez | 118 Katz |
| 10:10am | 11:00am | 50 min | ADDRESSING CONSERVATION PRIORITIES AND KNOWLEDGE GAPS WITH HELP FROM GENETICS – A STORY OF PARTNERSHIPS IN SUPPORT OF RED SPRUCE FORESTS | Stephen Keller | 118 Katz |
| 11:00am | 12:35pm | 1 hr 35 min | Closing/Poster & Speaker Awards | 118 Katz | |
| 12:35pm | 1:00pm | 25 min | Lunch on your own | ||
| 1:00pm | 3:30pm | 2.5 hrs | Post-Conference Oak PanGenome Workshop & Lunch | 107 FRB |
Posters
| Poster Number | Presenter Name | Poster Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary McCafferty | EVIDENCE FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE IN LEAF PHENOLOGY TIMING OF NORTHERN RED OAK (QUERCUS RUBRA) POPULATIONS |
| 2 | Hammad Ud Din | PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY AND GAS EXCHANGE DYNAMICS IN GENETICALLY MODIFIED POPLAR VARIANTS |
| 3 | Jacob Mazza | CLIMATE GRADIENTS PREDICT DIFFERENTIATION IN SAMARA AND SEEDLING TRAITS CRITICAL TO GERMINATION FOR FRAXINUS NIGRA |
| 4 | Joanne Kim | Relating tree size to nutrient foraging: a study of apple rootstock genotypes |
| 5 | Mohammad Usama | Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Drought Tolerance in Contrasting Populus deltoides Genotypes |
| 6 | Ricardo Cavalheiro | PINE SPECIES ALLOCATION ACROSS MULTIPLE COUNTRIES UNDER DIFFERENT CLIMATE SCENARIOS |
| 7 | Aurelio Aguiar (presented by Ricardo Cavalheiro) | TRACKING ENVIRONMENTAL SHIFTS IN TREE BREEDING: UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING FOR MACROENVIRONMENT CLASSIFICATION |
| 8 | Liang-liang Xu | Evaluating Environmental Drivers of Southern Yellow Pine niche in the Southeastern U.S. Using Species Distribution Models |
| 9 | Getrude Aturu | EXAMINING FOLIAR AND SOIL NUTRIENT CONTENT, SOIL CARBON, AND GENOTYPING OF 12 LONGLEAF PINE GENOTYPES |
| 10 | Julia Wolf | FIELD PLANTINGS IN THE US FOREST SERVICE EAB RESISTANCE BREEDING PROGRAM: ASSESSING EAB RESISTANCE, EVALUATING PARENTS, AND BUILDING TOWARD SEED ORCHARDS |
| 11 | Aletta Doran | THREE-YEAR SURVIVAL OF CONTAINER-GROWN ROOTED ASH CUTTINGS AND THEIR PERFORMANCE IN EAB (AGRILUS PLANIPENNIS) EGG TRANSFER BIOASSAYS COMPARED TO GRAFTS |
| 12 | Shade Niece | THE FIRST GENOME FOR SASSAFRAS ALBIDUM: FOUNDATIONAL GENOMIC RESOURCES FOR A TETRAPLOID TREE IMPERILED BY LAUREL WILT DISEASE |
| 13 | Olivia Hall | Lingering Hemlock Search Project: We need your help to restore the mighty hemlock |
| 14 | Chance Stribling | MOBILE AND WEB APPLICATIONS TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN FOREST HEALTH MONITORING |
| 15 | Avalon Miller | COMPARATIVE TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSES OF DUTCH ELM DISEASE RESISTANCE AND SUSCEPTIBILITY IN DIFFERENTIAL AMERICAN ELM CULTIVARS |
| 16 | Michaela Fitzgerald | UNDERSTANDING HEMLOCK DEFENSE: SECONDARY PESTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN HOST RESISTANCE |
| 17 | Zane Smith | LINGERING ASH GENOMES TO INFORM THE CONSERVATION BREEDING OF CRITICALLY ENDANGERED ASH TREE SPECIES (FRAXINUS SPP.) IN NORTH AMERICA |
| 18 | Meghan Blumstein | Genomics highlight an underestimation of phenology sensitivity to the urban heat island effect |
| 19 | Lucia Anderson | UNDERSTANDING RANGE-WIDE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF JUGLANS NIGRA (BLACK WALNUT). |
| 20 | Chen Ding | Assisted migration is plausible for a boreal tree species under climate change: A quantitative and population genetics study of trembling aspen |
| 21 | Edward Carlsson | Genomic selection across generations in Norway Spruce, evaluated with real and simulated data |
| 22 | Tal Shalev | GENOMICS OF WESTERN REDCEDAR: IMPROVING GENETIC RESILIENCE FOR UNCERTAIN FUTURES |
| 23 | Brandon Lind | UNRAVELLING GENOMIC DIVERSITY IN THE ALASKAN WILLOW, SALIX ALAXENSIS: A PANGENOME APPROACH TO ADAPTATION IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ARCTIC |
| 24 | Pinar Guner | Genetics of Dwarfism |
| 25 | Rajesh Dahal | Early Multi-Site Genetic Evaluation of Growth and Phenological Traits in Juvenile White Oak (Quercus alba): Insights into Heritability, Genetic Correlations, and Adaptive Potential |
| 26 | Robert Petursson | HIGH-QUALITY RNA EXTRACTION AND REFERENCE GENE EVALUATION IN FRAXINUS |
| 27 | Gray Tyrey (presented by Trevor Walker) | Female strobili production of topgrafts in a Pinus taeda breeding orchard over one decade |
| 28 | Shane Spence | EARLY RESULTS OF WHITE OAK (QUERCUS ALBA) PROGENY TESTS IN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN |
| 29 | David Carey | HYBRID PROGENY FOR EAB RESISTANCE MARKER VALIDATION |
| 30 | Kyu-Suk Kang (presented by Dayoung Lee) | COMPARING FIELD RESISTANCE WITH PINE WILT DISEASE AMONG SIX PINE SPECIES AT SEEDLING STAGES |
| 31 | Kyu-Suk Kang (presented by Dayoung Lee) | IMPROVING SEED GERMINATION AND CUTTED ROOTING OF HONEY BEE SPECIES (Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala) |
| 32 | Nathalie Isabel | FROM GENES TO POLICY: LEVERAGING GENOMICS FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE IN CANADA |
| 33 | Meghan Myles | CARTOGRAPLANT: INTEGRATION OF FAIR DATA STEWARDSHIP, ANALYTICS, AND GEOREFERENCED PLANT POPULATIONS FOR A CHANGING WORLD |