CSIRO, ANU and Western Sydney University invite you and your colleagues to a symposium about Forest industry preparedness for climate change: opportunities from genetics and genomics. This is being held under the auspices of the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) project ‘Forests for the Future: making the most of a high CO2 world’.
The symposium will bring together genomics companies, tree breeders, genetics R&D providers, and the forest industry, to examine the opportunities from genetics/genomics in planning for climate change and variability, and to explore end-user (industry) priorities and delivery pathways.
The symposium will provide an overview of genetics/genomics advances, opportunities and barriers; a synthesis of the sorts of future climatic conditions we will need to prepare for in Australia; the role of genetics and other management strategies in managing climate risks and impacts. It will facilitate discussion between the participating groups to identify priorities and delivery pathways.
The event will be held in Canberra on Wednesday 20th July. More details are provided in the attached document, including details of venue and registration.
The symposium is free. However numbers are limited. Please RSVP for the symposium and dinner to Libby Pinkard at your earliest convenience
