January 27 – 31, 2020 – University of Avignon, Avignon, France
The international scientific conference “Genetics to the rescue: managing forests sustainably in a changing world” is for scientists in the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics, functional ecology, conservation genetics and political sciences interested in forests as model organisms and in applying results of these fields to the global challenge of sustainable forest management.
The conference is organized in four sessions, over two days (January 28 and 29, 2020).
Session 1: Genomes and the environment
Session 2: Local adaptation of climate change-related traits
Session 3: Conserving and using genetic diversity
Session 4: Evolutionary management of forests
The stakeholder event, following the conference, is aimed primarily to forest managers and policy makers, and focuses on the importance of genetics in forest management. During the stakeholder event, the implications of the conference findings for sustainable forest management and policy will be discussed.
A training session on how to use genomics resources and principles for forest ecology targets Master’s and PhD students and early stage researchers.
Finally, a Wikipedia session will train participants on how to edit Wikipedia pages and use the opportunity to edit those pages relevant to forest genetics and sustainable forest management.
More information: https://colloque.inra.fr/confgentree2020/
The conference is organized by the H2020 project GenTree.
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