Dag Lindgren and the group around
Till 2002 I had rather many visitors and doctorands, me and the people around could be called a group. As a consequence of a re-emphasises (defocusing on non-molecular matters) and cut down of forest genetics, the group around me was drastically scaled down 2002 and has never recovered. Currently I am main supervisor of one doctorands who does not sit near me or need much attention for the research work and neither I have or plan to have more visitors. I tried to identify the group as a group for prediction of genetic change, but that did not succeed well.
I will mainly focus on collaboration with people I already have an established contact with (and their associates) or who are funded by someone else and have rather much experience in a breeding related organisation. I plan to retire autumn 2009, but if allowed I will probably maintain this web and fullfill other obligations for some time after that.
Intro
I and the group around work mainly to develop mathematical tools to predict genetic change and to optimise breeding procedures using the tools developed. To monitor and optimise tree breeding and seed orchards, the changes it causes in genetic quality of the forest at different levels in space and time has to be analysed.
Research FocusA list of tentative research targets I intended to attack 2002 This list is outdated and will never be full-filled, but I keep it for historical reasons.
PeopleThere are collaborators at different places in the World which changes over time. Ola Rosvall (Station manager for a breeding station (Sävar) close to Umeå and research chief and chief breeder at Skogforsk), Tim Mullin (former director of NCSU-Industry cooperative and professor at NCSU, now self-employed consultant at New Zealand)), Kyu-Suk Kang (Forest Research Institute of Korea), Darius Danusevicius (Lithuanian Forest Research Institute), Run-Peng Wei (SinoForest at HongKong), Nebi Bilir (Turkey), Mohan Verghese (India) can be mentioned as persons, who have been attached to the centre continuously over a long time and are likely to keep a tie as long as I am active.
Research students and visiting scientists
VisitingHow things are for students and visiting scientists
Higher levels of the hierarchy.The centre can be seen as a part of quantitative genetics and general genetics, this can be viewed as forest genetics at Umeå, which is a minor part of Department of forest genetics and plant physiology, which is a part of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, which is a part of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. We are localised together with plant physiologists at Umeå University and form together with them Umeå Plant Science Centre. A Research School in Forest Genetics and Breeding has been establised.
Publications
Many publications from the group around me have Dag Lindgren as one of the co-authors and can be seen in my publication list. Here are some publications are listed where I played a role but am not a co-author, but there are many more.
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