Present and Future of Cork Oak in Portugal. 21st Oct

Program

Morning session

 

9:00 – 9:15 Opening (Honor Committee)

 

9:15 - 10:55 "Different Perspectives on cork oak” (Chairs: José A. Graça & C. Pinto Ricardo)

António Gonçalves Ferreira (UNAC) (Production perspective)

João Santos Pereira (ISA) (Silviculture perspective)

José Pedro Fernandes (Corticeira Amorim) (Industry perspective)

Helena Pereira (ISA) (Biological-chemistry perspective)

M. Margarida Oliveira (ITQB and iBET)(Genomic perspective)

 

10:55 -11:30 Discussion

 

Coffee Break at Posters (list will be soon available online)

 

12:00 – 13:00 Presentations selected from submitted abstracts [10 min + 5 min discussion each]

Luis Gil (LNEG) – REDECOR – Rede temática do sobreiro e da cortiça

Helena Almeida (ISA) Cork afforestation success: the influence of geographic origin

Clara Pinto (INRB) – Phenology and growth dynamics in Q.suber: effects of environmental conditions and water relations

Helga Garcia (ITQB)-Suberin, a value added biopolyester from cork oak

 

LUNCH

 

Afternoon Session

 

14:30 - 15:45 Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT perspective)

 

14:45 -15:45 "Use and application of genomic resources in oak genetics”  Invited Conference: Antoine Kremer (INRA; France)

 

15:45 – 16:55 " The Portuguese cork oak genomics initiative” (Chairs: Célia Miguel &  Filomena Nóbrega)

C.Pinto Ricardo & M.Margarida Oliveira (ITQB and iBET) The cork oak ESTs Consortium

Octávio Paulo & Dora Batista (FCUL and IICT) Cork oak genetic differentiation and diversity

Andreas Bohn & José Leal (ITQB and IGC) Bio-informatics in the cork oak EST´s Consortium

Sónia Gonçalves (CEBAL) The cork oak genome sequencing project

 

16:55 – 17:15 Discussion

 

17:45 – 18:30 Presentations selected from submitted abstracts

Marília Horta (Univ. Alg.) – Involvement of Phytophthora species on the decline disease of corak oak

Jorge Paiva (IICT) – Construction and characterization of the first Q.suber BAC library

Glória Pinto (Uni. Aveiro) – Physiological and epigenetic responses of cork oak plants to climate changes: an integrative toolbox

Leonor Morais (ISA) – DNA methyltransferase and co-repressor gene expression in the active phellogen of Quercus suber

 

18:45 Workshop conclusions (Sara Pereira) and Closure