Keynote speakers and tentative titles:



Wout Boerjan, Ghent University, Belgium.
"A systems approach to understand lignin biosynthesis".

Shaoliang Chen, Beijing Forestry University, China.
"Physiological mechanisms of salt tolerance and related genomic basis in poplars differing in salt tolerance".

Carl J. Douglas, University of British Columbia, Canada.
"Probing genetic diversity for biomass and biofuels traits in wild populations of Populus trichocarpa in northwestern North America".

Matthias Fladung, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Germany.
"Elimination of marker genes and targeted integration of transgenes via the FLP/FRT-recombination system".

Annegret Kohler, INRA Nancy, France.
"The poplar root transcriptome. Changes in gene expression during adventitious root and ectomycorrhiza development".

Steve Strauss, Oregon State University, USA.
"Growth and form modification in poplar via transgenic modification of gibberellic acid signaling".

Björn Sundberg, Umeå Plant Science Center, Sweden.
Title to be announced.

Gail Taylor, University of Southampton, UK.
"The genomic architecture of a QTL hotspot for yield in bioenergy poplar".

Chung-Jui Tsai, University of Georgia, USA.
"Genetic and environmental regulation of phenylpropanoid allocation in poplars".