2:25 p.m.
Dear colleagues,
I have the pleasure to announce our next online meeting on the
*2**6*^*th* *of May **2026**, 12-14 GMT/UTC, *so early in the day for
Americans (5-7 San Francisco, 7-9 Chicago, 9-11 Argentina), early
afternoon for people in Europe (14-16 Paris CEST) and late in the day
for scientists in Asia (Tokyo 21-23) . Please recheck your local times
against GMT.
We will use Zoom for the meeting,please use the following link to join :
_https://inrae-fr.zoom.us/j/97607941481
<https://inrae-fr.zoom.us/j/97607941481>_
This time we will have two5 minute live talks by PhD and graduate
students, and three pre-prepared 20-min talks, which need to
bewatched_before_the meeting. A second email with links to the youtube
channel as well as the talks will be sent before the actual meeting,
probably on the 13^th of May, so you might want to reserve time to watch.
During the meeting, the speakers of the 20-min talkswill give a short
introduction during the meeting (2-3 min), so that we can use the
meeting time mainly for discussions (15min per talk).
We will have 2 hours for the meeting. The tentative schedule will be
(using GMT times) :
12:00 Welcome, introduction to the meeting and its program
12:10 *Cheng-Yun Lai* (PhD student, Graduate School of Bioagricultural
Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan) « Detecting genomic signals of local
adaptation in Japanese beech (/Fagus crenata/) »
12:20 *Ananda Adhikari* (graduate student, Purdue University, Indiana,
USA) «Trait-integrated joint species distribution modeling of eastern
U.S. /Quercus/ spp. »
12:40 *Jingshu Wang*(PhD student, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou , RPC) « Population genomics and
pangenomics reveal homoploid hybrid speciation in two closely related
white oak species »
13:00*Ludovic Duvaux*(research engineer, Biogeco, INRAE, France) « The
Pangenoak project: Pangenomics approaches to study local adaptation and
reproductive isolation in European white oaks »
13:20 *John E Carlson*(Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State
University, USA) « The Eastern North America Oak Super-Pangenome Project »
13:40-14:00 General Discussion / IUFRO WP specifics
we hope to see you all there, virtually
best regards
Oliver Brendel, Chuck Cannon & Keiko Kitamura
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Oliver Brendel
UMR 1434 SILVA Equipe PHARE
Centre INRAE Grand Est - Nancy
F-54280 Champenoux France
TEL 0033 (0) 383 /394100 FAX /394022
