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There are three seminars in forest genetics planned for the coming weeks by visitors from Faculty of Forestry, Czech University of Agriculture, Prague Czech Republic

Place: The seminar room of the department of forest genetics and plant physiology (floor 4 close to entrance on floor 2)

Milan Lstibureks Czech supervisor, Jaroslav Kobliha, will hold a seminar
"Forest tree breeding projects of the Department of Dendrology
and tree breeding at Faculty of Forestry, Czech University of
Agriculture in Prague".

Time: Wednesday, June 7 at 9.00

My comment: Dr Kobliha seems to have succeeded in getting offspring in crosses between sylvestris and contorta, that may be of interest to make questions on that point from some of you.

Wednesday 14^th of June 13.⁰⁰

Prof. Vladimír Chalupa

Kobliha and Chalupka will visit Uppsala June 16.

I have got the following information from Ulfstand Wennström: Vi har bjudit hit Barry Goldfarb från Dep. of Forestry, North Carolina State
University. Han är expert på rotning av tallsticklingar. För att så många som möjligt ska få del i hans kunskaper så kommer han att hålla ett seminarium på förmiddagen den 21/6 i sal Björken. Temat blir: "Rooting cuttings from P. elliottii (loblolly pine)". Barry Goldfarb will visit Uppsala also.

There is a conference on quantitative genetics in breeding, more information on

http://moulon.moulon.inra.fr/~eucarpia/

Since 1994 TJ Mullin has been an important collaborator to our group. His support was instrumental to the PhD Forest Genetics thesis 1999 by Rosvall and Andersson as far as to many of the other studies of our group. He has been appointed director of a joint University - Industry Cooperative Breeding Program in South Eastern US. The breeding program supports a planting of around 1 billion Pinus taeda plants. He replaces Bob Weir, who retires. He takes up the new position at around this moment. In the same time he was appointed full professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. We give our congratulations to Tim to the appointment and hope that this will continue to strengthen ties and cooperation between Sweden and Raleigh.

For those associated to SLU there is a service to find literature (citations).

This is the address of Web of Science:

http://isi.libris.kb.se/CIW.cgi

it is a useful way to find late relevant references, and I guess citations will be more recent thanks to similar services.

Journal citation report (see below) can be found at
http://jcrweb.com/

For these sites, however, authorisation is required, which SLU and some other institutions have, but SkogForsk probably has not.

Information and demo-versions can be found at

http://www.isinet.com/

Information, which can be found at the site "Journal citation report" is shown below. Note that e.g. Forest Genetics is not covered in the data base, thus 50% of the journals dealing with our speciality (forest genetics) is not covered. For SJFR it seems to have established itself well in spite of its short life-time, my congratulations to those who have contributed to make it successful (among them Anders Ericsson, Gösta Eriksson and a lot of contributors and reviewers). I think it says more about differences between forest geneticists and plant physiologists than about the journals that Tree Physiology has four times higher "impact" than Silvae Genetica.

Laura Parducci (handledare Alfred Szmidt, skoglig genetik Umeå) har bokat in disputation 8 Sept.

Katsuhiko Takata and Song Wan are visiting the genetics Umeå corridor for around a year. Darius Danusevicius (known to many of us) will visit us during July

I have constructed two new EXCEL-sheets concerned with questions like: how many sites?; over which range to use the same material?; what's the consequences for adaptation that we draw seed orchard parents from a range of sites?

They are available at

 http://daglindgren.upsc.se/GeneticCalc/Site_Nr&Range/Sites_Menu.html

KEMPE
Kempestiftelserna har nu en hemsida, med adressen http://www.kempe.y.se
Den vänder sig i första hand till institutioner i norra regionen.

Britta Danell, Gene Namkoong and Ron Sederoff are appointed as scientific experts to the evaluation committee and are now looking at the merits of the applicants.