Newsletter April 01
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Dissertations
planned in forest genetics at Umeå
DISPUTATION I
SKOGSGENETIK
Härmed tillkännages att
MSc Maria Margarida Ribeiro, Inst för skoglig
genetik och växtfysiologi
vid SLU i Umeå, kommer att disputera för
filosofie doktorsexamen
fredagen den 20 april 2001, kl 10.00 i Hörsal
Björken, SLU i Umeå, på
en avhandling med titeln:
Avhandlingen finns
tillgänglig på Institutionen för skoglig genetik och
växtfysiologi i Umeå,
Förvaltningsavdelningen och Skogsbiblioteket i Umeå
samt på Ultunabiblioteket
fr o m den 30 mars 2001.
Opponent är
Professor Hans Roulund, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural
University,
Department of Economics and Natural Resources, Hørsholm, Danmark.
There are two doctors thesis planned to be presented early June 2001 at Umeå
MSc Kyu-Suk Kang
Genetic gain and gene
diversity of seed orchard crops.
Datum 2001-06-01 Tid 10.00 Lokal
Björken, "Skogis", Umeå
Opponent: Professor Yousry A.
El-Kassaby
and
Jägmästare Thúy
Olsson
Datum 2001-06-08 Tid 10.00 Lokal
Björken, Umeå
Opponent:: Dr Nuno Borralho
The last previous
dissertation was Adolfo Bila, December 1, 2000.
Adolfo Bila
en avhandling med titeln:
Fertility Variation and its Effects on
Gene Diversity in Forest Tree Populations
I would be happy to
supply a copy of that thesis if asked
I found an
informative site about the use of agriculture biotech at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/gmo/fullrep/ch1.htm
Only 1 per mille of
the commercial agricultural GMO heads for improved quality of the crop.
Why are we when so optimistic
about improving wood characters by GMO in forestry?
It seems to have
not support at all in the agricultural experiences!
Committee meeting
RGF sammanträder i
Danmark 2-3 maj ( Per Ståhl)
Next
professor in Uppsala will not be Outi Savolainen!
There were ten applicants to the vacancy as professor of genetics,
which appeared when Gösta Eriksson retired
(only two of the applicants were ethnic Swedes). Four were shortlisted and
three appeared at personal hearings. Tjänsteförslagsnämnden suggested only Outi Savolainen from Uleåborg.
After thinking it over for some months she has now declared that she
does not want the position.
As far as I know it is now an open situation, probably no one knows what will
happen.
Nova
course 2002
It is suggested I will be
responsible for the next “Nordic” plant breeding course (Nr 28 in consequtive
order!!!), the theme is suggested to be “Quantitative genetics and efficient
plant breeding” and it is planned to
be carried out in Sweden 21-27 January 2002. I plan to come back with more
detailed information.
A tips for the general discussion I got from
Yongqi Zheng
Regarding diversity vs gains, a better solution seems to be that
when you work for industries you focus on GAINS, while working for government
you emphasize DIVERSITY, when you are working for both you tend to concentrate
on SUSTAINABILITY. In this way funds continue to come.
Sites
I focus attention on “BIOME” who builds up a biologic link library, which
will focus on organisational sites and includes the area of forest genetics and
forest tree breeding
(http://biome.ac.uk/biome.html).
Another site which may be worth knowing
is
http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/index.html
The cake club (for exploration of Nordic Cake Diversity) of the Nordic Gene
Bank has URL
http://www.ngb.se/Cake/
Symposium paper
Symposium on Hybrid Breeding and Genetics Noosa, Australia, 9-14
April 2000 has placed much interesting outcome from the conference at
http://www.forests.qld.gov.au/resadv/qfri/qfevents/hyoutcom.htm
Postgraduate teaching
General courses (baskurser) in postgraduate education for the year
2001
mainly at SLU is announced on
http://www-ubyr.adm.slu.se/forskbas/eng/index.htm
Moving
My former student, RunPeng Wei, has moved from Edmonton, Alberta, to southern
China (Hong Kong), his new email is runpeng-wei@sinoforest.com
Nordic Forest Genetic Resources Group Meeting
The Nordic Forest Genetic Resources Group Meeting took place in
Finland , March 23-27, 2001
Information can be found on the web page
http://www.metla.fi/tapahtumat/2001/nordicgenetics/
(the METLA webmaster did not like the URL I gave in my previous message,
neither he let the link given at the virtual library remain, and the Finnish
arrangers had to submit to the Webmasters will). It can be good to check what
you (or others there) have experienced, as the meeting seems to contradict
Murphy’s law, most things worked as planned including the weather. It may also
appear new information following the meeting.
Särplockning
Jag skrev ned några synpunkter om
särplockning (och klonantal och genetisk diversitet) i ett dokument våren 1999,
dokumentet är tillgängligt på min web-site på:
http://daglindgren.upsc.se/Papers/REFLECT/Särplockning5.htm
Litterature
I got an email about literature,
I send it further to you (note that White´s books had been announced as coming
for a long time)
>Forest Genetics by T L White, W T Adams, D B NEale
>June 2001 ISBN: 0851993486 c.500pp PB ?35.00 (US$60.00)
>
>Readership: Advanced undergraduate students of forestry, plant breeding and
>genetics
>
>Contents:
>Part 1; ch.1-6:
Basic Genetic Principles: Mendelian, molecular population and quantitative genetics
>Part 2; ch.7-10:
>Genetic Variation in Natural Populations: evolution, patterning on the
>landscape, management and conservation
>Part 3; ch.11-17:
>Applied Tree Imporvement Programmes: base populations, selection, genetic
>testing, data analysis, deployment and breeding strategy deployment
>
>Part 4; ch. 18-20:
>Concepts and Applications of Biotechnology: genetic engineering, marker
>assisted breeding, genomics
>
>Representing:
>Palgrave (formerly Macmillan Press)/Bedford Freeman Worth Group
>(http://www.palgrave.com;http://www.whfreeman.com;
http://www.worthpublishers.com;http://www.sinauer.com;http://www.us
>cibooks.com)
>
>Nature Publishing Group
>(http://www.macmillan-reference.co.uk;www.ency-astro.com;www.els.net)
>
>Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
>(http://www.lww.com;http://www.lww.co.uk;http://www.nursingcenter.com;ht
>tp://www.aspenpublishers.com;http://www.lifeart.com)
>
>Butterworth-Heinemann
>(http://www.bh.com;http://www.newnespress.com;http://www.architecturalpr
>ess.com;http://www.focalpress.com;http://www.businesscases.org;http://ww
>w.marketingonline.co.uk;http://www.iso9000-y2k.com)
>
>World Scientific Publishing
>(http://www.worldscientific.com;http://www.icpress.demon.co.uk)
>
>Royal Society of Chemistry (http://www.rsc.org)
>
>Hart Publishing (http://www.hartpub.co.uk)
>
>Boydell & Brewer (http://www.boydell.co.uk)
>
>ISIS Medical Media (http://www.isismedical.com)
>
>CAB International (http://www.cabi.org)
>
>Woodhead Publishing (http://www.woodhead-publishing.com)
>
>Gordon & Breach Publishing Group (http://www.gbhap.com)
>
>Edinburgh University Press (http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk)
>
>Christopher Hurst & Co Ltd (http://www.hurstpub.co.uk)
>
>Combined Academic Publishers Ltd
>(http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/;http://www.duke.edu/web/dupress;http
>://www.utexas.edu/utpress/;http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu)