IUFRO2015

8 JUN 2015

• Registration

Introduction

Speach by G. Surico (Italian)

• Welcoming the IURO family
• Florence Univ is one of the best for Science and Technology and Research
• One has to understand the food for the planet should be seen as wealth of the planet in terms of plants and biodiversity
• Welome all to the beautiful city with exciting discussions.

Speech by Loreto (English)

• Importance of conference
• About CNR EXPO (with 200 scientists all over the world

Chanco | Chairman of Italian Academy of Sciences (Italian)

• Talks on Biology, its diversification | Central dogma of Research in Biology
• Need for heterogenicity | the complexity of biology

Speech by Scaramuzzi - Director of Biology (Italian)

• Orgin of Academy of science in Italy (206 years back)
• Importance of Agriculture and need for feeding the planet
• I was a tree grower and I am proud of it.
• Hope on Molecular biology

Veronesi (Chariman of Agricultural society )

• Declares that he is the specialists of tree genetics
• Knowledge should be published
• Have a positive attitude

Paoletti - Forest Ecology (Presentation)

• Works on all aspect of Agroforestry | support conferences | Host journals ROREST (IF: 1.15)
• Italy is 6th is Europe on forest coverage
• 54% is coppicers (choosing trees in forest)
• 66% is from Private owners

Chostri

• Welcome and explained about the several congress of Forestry in florence
• Farming and Forestry, climate change studies will bring great impact to the planet

Yousry A El-Kassaby

• Origin of IUFRO
  • Next will be in Germany

Sally Aitken - Millions of markers, but what is the message ?

• Sub Title: Population genomics of adaptation to climate in conifers
• Theme: Adaptree
• Climate change create mis-match between populations. Eg: pine and spurce
  • Aim: to detect the patterns of local adaptation from genomic data
  • Trees do the local adaptation through small effects of many loci
  • These were done through GWAS | Taking neutral population
  • Transcriptome -> aligned with whole genome sequence
  • In addition did some exon - capture (20 million SNPs in pine and spurce together)
  • Choose 1 million SNPs per species based on several filters
  • Categorized SNPs based GEA (Genotype-environment association)
  • Strong differentiation of North vs South (obviously)
  • Took the outliers (SNPs) out and correlated them : Strong positive correlation between pine and spurce (again obvious)
  • Looked at LD
    • LD in GWAS: Did with the sub-population and observed the longer LD block, (which is again obvious)
    • LD is skewed if the population is not adjusted (Again obvious fact idiot)
  • 6 common genes as outliers (basically major effect genes) in pine and spruce
  • Irrelevant last slide
  • Full summary is all about obvious facts
• How would you use the genomic data on local adaptation: will use the specific population which is more amenable to adaption to be used in conservation. (??!) . OK Nice. How many of the population is really marked for conservation???
  • These guys really make fun with the Govt Funds.
• Good question
  • Time is also factor while dissecting the envt..! correct
  • Minor effect is also a big factor in decision making

8 JUN 2015

Mathias - Populus GWAS

• Exon Capture and genotyping by targeted sequencing
• Stat
  • 18K genes
  • Association
    • Lignin and S/G rario -> Got a 120 kb haplotype highly associated with biomass and lignin