Dear forest tree genomics community,

The following message contains important information about the Forest Tree Workshop to be held at the Plant and Animal Genome XXIV (PAG XXIV, http://www.intlpag.org) conference on Sunday, January 10, 2016 in San Diego, CA.  

Please forward this message to others who may be interested.

As coordinators of the Forest Tree Workshop and deputies of IUFRO Working Party 2.04.10 -Tree Genomics, we (Jeanne Romero-Severson, Nathaniel Street, and Larry Smart), are carrying on the tradition of organizing a community-based PAG Forest Tree Workshop that provides a forum for presentation of the latest results in forest tree genomics by PIs, postdocs, and students. This will be the final year of our 3-year term as coordinators, so please nominate candidates to take over for us.

As in recent years, we are contacting all possible participants to solicit draft abstracts to be considered for oral presentation at the workshop. We will then screen these abstracts for the most appropriate work to be presented at the workshop, taking into account the quality of the science, novelty of the results, and organismal, geographic, and research group diversity. For this year’s workshop, we will aim to start each session with a 40-minute talk by a lab leader, followed by 20-minute talks primarily by early-career researchers, so please encourage your students and postdocs to submit abstracts.  Through this screening process, you may submit your abstract to us for consideration for an oral presentation without having to register for the conference first.

If you wish your work to be considered for an oral presentation at the PAG XXIV Forest Tree Workshop, you MUST submit a draft abstract (250 word maximum) to this web site (http://www.upsc.se/pag2016)  NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 12, 2015. That will give us time to organize the program based on submitted abstracts, select speakers, and inform them (by OCT. 21). Those selected and confirmed for oral presentations by this process will then be asked to register and submit their abstracts online as invited speakers in the Forest Tree Workshop NO LATER THAN October 30, 2015.  Those selected as poster presenters should also submit their poster abstracts directly to PAG NO LATER THAN October 30, 2015.  The PAG XXIII early bird registration deadline is OCT 30 and rates go up on Oct. 31.

Thank you for your interest and participation in the workshop. We look forward to receiving your abstracts. 

Best wishes,

Nathaniel Street (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Larry Smart (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), and Jeanne Romero-Severson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)