IAWA, IAWS and IUFRO Conference 23-26 June 2010, MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA The Pan-American Regional Group of IAWA, the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) and Division 5 of IUFRO are organizing a joint meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, USA for June 23 - 26, 2010. This joint conference will serve as an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience in a wide variety of fields including tree biology, systematic wood anatomy and wood identification, paleobotany, ecophysiology, wood formation and cambial activity, and wood quality research. New developments in the areas of ultrastructure and lignin chemistry and the use of various new technologies including near infrared spectroscopy and recent advances in microscopy and molecular biology are pushing the frontiers of wood anatomy to new heights. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their recent research progress, exchange information and develop collaborations. LOCATION: The IAWA/IAWS Conference will be held in the Memorial Union at 800 Langdon St. located on the shores of Lake Mendota on the campus of the University of Wisconsin - Madison (https://www.union.wisc.edu/index.asp and map https://www..union.wisc.edu/directions/) REGISTRATION: see attached form Registration is US$150 payable via check or money order in US dollars. Student registration is $100. You can pay via PayPal on the IAWS website ( http://www.iaws-web.org) Click on DONATION and at the top under description enter “IAWA, IAWS, and IUFRO Conference”. Complete the form and submit. You do not need a PayPal account. Your registration fee includes the banquet on Friday night. For updates check the website at IAWA, ( http://www.iawa-website.org/ or http://bio.kuleuven.be/sys/iawa/meetings.html) IAWS ( http://www.iaws-web.org) or IUFRO (. http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/current/) Deadline for registering without a late fee is May 1, 2010. ACCOMMODATIONS: You must make your own reservations. When making them, mention the IAWA, IAWS, and IUFRO Conference at the Memorial Union. For accommodations associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, go to http://www.vip.wisc.edu/lodging.html. Most of these accommodations are within walking distance of the Memorial Union. University Housing: Summer Housing for Groups Through University Housing, we have arranged for rooms all with single/twin beds at Smith Hall (35 N. Park St.), a student housing facility. For photos and information on Smith Hall go to http://www.housing.wisc.edu/Summer_Conferences/reshalls.html#L. The cost of single and double occupancy including breakfast has not been set for 2010, but an estimate is $60/night for single occupancy and $40/night/person for double occupancy. Complete information will be available when on-line reservations are opened after January 1, 2010. We will need a minimum of 20 person/night to have this facility available. If our minimum is not reached 45 days before the meeting, we will have to cancel. (Go to: http://www.housing.wisc.edu/summer_conferences select “On-Line Reservations ”) For questions, email conferenceservices(a)housing.wisc.edu.. For more accommodations choices, check the website http://www.visitmadison.com/visitors/stay/. We have blocked rooms at two hotels close to the Memorial Union as follows: Campus Inn and Chancellor’s Club 601 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53703, USA Phone: 608-257-4391 or tollfree 800-589-6285 — FAX: 608-257-2832. Please refer to “IAWA & IAWS Conference” group reservation #92482. Direct URL with no login needed use the following: https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=391073&… For information about the hotel use: http://www.thecampusinn.com/ University Inn 441 N. Frances St. Madison, WI 53703, USA Phone: 608-257-4881 or tollfree 800-279-4881 — FAX: 608-285-8051. Please refer to “IAWA/IAWS Conference Block”. You must call to receive discounted rates. For information abut the hotel use: http://www.universityinn.org/ SOCIAL EVENTS: On Friday evening, June 25, we will have a banquet and business meeting at the Memorial Union. The cost of the banquet is included in your registration fee. LOCAL INFORMATION: For information about the local area check the websites of Madison at http://www.cityofmadison.com/; the University of Wisconsin-Madison at http://www.wisc.edu/ and the Memorial Union at https://www.union.wisc.edu/index.asp. CONTACT: Dr. Regis B. Miller, Executive Secretary of IAWA USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory One Gifford Pinchot Drive Madison, WI 53726-2398, USA Phone: 608-231-9341 — FAX: 608-231-9508 — Email: rmiller1(a)wisc.edu ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS: Please send an electronic copy of your Abstract following the models shown below. Use 2 cm margins on all four sides with single-spaced lines and Times New Roman typeface with a 12-point pitch. Make the text left aligned only (not justified or right aligned) and use no tabs, tables, figures, pictures or references. Please do not divide words. The body of the Abstract should contain no more than 2000 characters, including the spaces between the words. Immediately after the title, indicate if the Abstract is a paper or a poster. Send the Abstract to Dr. Regis B. Miller at rmiller1(a)wisc.edu. If email is not possible, send your Abstract on a CD together with a hard copy printout to Dr. Miller. The deadline for submission of Abstracts is May 1, 2010. Oral presentations: Each delegate will be allowed one oral presentation of 15 or 20 minutes including time for questions and discussion. PowerPoint presentations are required. No slide projectors will be available. PC’s and data projectors will be used for PowerPoint presentations. If other audio-visual aids are needed, please contact Regis Miller. Posters: A display panel with dimensions 3’8” (1.1 meters) high by 5’7” (1.7 meters) wide will be provided. Pushpins to facilitate display will be provided. We are asking poster presenters to prepare a 3-minute mini-PowerPoint to present their poster. Information about times for displaying and removing posters will be available in the final program. Models of Abstracts: Pieter Baas1, Steven Jansen2 & Elisabeth Wheeler3: 1Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; 2Instituut voor Plantkunde en Microbiologie, Laboratorium voor Systematiek, K.U. Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium; 3North Carolina State University, Department of Wood and Paper Science, P.O. Box 8005, Raleigh, NC 27695-8005, USA. — Ecological adaptations in wood microstructure and angiosperm phylogeny. — (Paper) Ecological adaptations in xylem anatomy are relatively well understood in terms of their functional significance and general validity. This makes them suspect candidates for relating adaptive change with deep phylogenetic splits in woody plant phylogenies because their very functionality… Etc. Etc. Ayami Akimatsu, Seiichi Yasuda & Kazuhiko Fukushima: Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. — Stable carbon isotope compositions of cell wall components of woody plants. — (Poster) Analysis of stable carbon isotope composition of bulk organic material has been applied to numerous ecological and physiological studies. Nevertheless, the isotopic composition of bulk plant material represents only the average of the isotopic composition of all chemical compounds in a certain tissue… E Dave Cown, Senior Scientist, Wood Quality Coordinator, IUFRO Division 5 (Forest Products) Scion (Trading name of Forest Research Institute Ltd.) Private Bag 3020 49 Sala St. Rotorua New Zealand Ph: +64 7343 5525 Mobile: 021 187 4022 Fx: +64 7343 5507 www.scionresearch.com