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It begins!! Welcome to #forestgenetics2025 - where all the cool kids are hanging! #trees4everyone @michellezavala.bsky.social @diegodelorbe.bsky.social @krlopicc.bsky.social

Huck announces 2025-26 Leadership Fellows | Penn State University Faculty members Jill Hamilton, Wenrui Hao and Gustavo Nader have been named the 2025-26 Huck Leadership Fellows. As fellows, they will take part in a yearlong, high-level professional development prog...

Honored to be appointed a Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Leadership Fellow position. I am deeply grateful and thrilled to provide creativity and leadership within interdisciplinary spaces, emphasizing graduate training and evolutionary biology. www.psu.edu/news/faculty...

Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir in Lombardy?
DNA markers will answer this question soon
#CONIFIR project #PRIN2022

So excited to host the upcoming Forest Genetics 2025 meeting in State College, PA! Over 100 abstracts from across the globe, amazing keynotes, career panelists, field trips, and much more! Registration deadline is June 2nd! Join us in Happy Valley June 23-27, 2025!! forestgeneticsconference2025.com

📚| Climate Appropriate Portfolios of Tree Diversity (CAPTD) ensure tree species are environmentally matched to planting sites & purpose-matched to planting needs—helping address climate change & restoration challenges.

Learn how to operationalize CAPTD➡️ https://t.co/iosYtsKufu

#TreesPeoplePlanet

Two PhD opportunities in forest genetics and climate adaptation at INRAE Avignon Two PhD positions at INRAE Avignon explore genetic adaptation in oak and beech trees, focusing on phenology, climate resilience, and forest population vulnerability.

📢 PhD #opportunity in #ForestGenetics & #ClimateAdaptation!

@inrae-france.bsky.social’s Mediterranean Forest Ecology Research Unit with Aix-Marseille University is offering two fully funded PhD positions on genetic adaptation in European forest trees!

Learn more ➡️ www.forgenius.eu/news/post/tw...

Joint EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS Conference / Third Biannual EVOLTREE Conference 18-25 November 2025, Madrid, Spain

Joint EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS Conference 2025

Call for Abstracts is now open! Deadline 30 June 2025

We invite submissions on evolutionary ecology, genomics, and adaptation in trees and associated organisms.

For more information: www.evoltree.eu/conferences/...

FORGENIUS Newsletter - Special Isssue - May 2025 Stay at the forefront of forest genetics and innovation! The FORGENIUS project newsletter informs you about the most important advances of this Horizon 2020 project, which uses its developments to fut...

Do not miss the @evoltree.bsky.social–@forgenius-eu.bsky.social Joint Conference!

📅 18–21 November
📍 Madrid, Spain

Are you a researcher, practitioner, or policy-makers working on forest #biodiversity, #genomics, & #climate adaptation?

Join this multidisciplinary forum ➡️ mailchi.mp/5873c66e6b7f...

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming EvolTree-FORGENIUS Joint Conference "Integrative Diversity of Forest Ecosystems" , which will take place in Madrid, Spain, from 18 to 21 November 2025.

You can find all information and the registration here:
www.evoltree.eu/conferences/...

The 2024/2025 EVOLTREE Opportunity grant has been awarded to Eduardo Vicente Bartoli (INRAE, @inrae-france.bsky.social), for a project on:

'Unraveling intra-specific variation in Black pine seed dormancy and its link with seedling fitness.'

Our most sincere congratulations to Eduardo!

OptFORESTS postdoc researcher position at INRAE INRAE seeks a postdoctoral researcher for the OptFORESTS project, focusing on forest genetic diversity, using simulations to develop sustainable strategies. Requires a PhD in genetics, bioinformatics,...

📢 INRAE is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the #OptFORESTS project! Focus on forest genetic diversity, simulations, and long-term conservation strategies. Based in Orléans, France. Apply by 30 April 2025. #ForestScience @evoltree.bsky.social
www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

#HappeningTomorrow - Webinar "Mechanisms of Natural and Anthropogenic Selection on Trees in the Forest". Organised in collaboration with @euforgen.bsky.social.

There's still time to register! www.euforgen.org/euforgen-web...

Call for Abstracts (deadline April 30, 2025) for the "Climate Crisis: Conifer Forests at Risk 2025" Conference, taking place in Jeju (Republic of Korea), September 14-20th ➡️ More info at www.cccf2025.com

📢 Reminder to send abstracts to the Evolutionary Genomics symposium co-organized by EvolApp and MolEcol at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona!

🎤 Featuring outstanding guest speakers:
Cameron Ghalambor and Santi González-Martinez

📅Deadline: 25 Apr 2025

w/ @cam-g.bsky.social @evoltree.bsky.social

Training for EUFGIS National Focal Points on the redesigned information system for the conservation of forest genetic resources EUFGIS National Focal Points (NFP) met in Dolenjske Toplice in Slovenia on 12-13 February, for training on the beta version of the redesigned European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (E...

FORGENIUS is working to enhance EUFGIS, introducing new technologies and interfaces, strengthening climate and environment data characterisation, & more 💡🧬🌲

Read more on this training on the redesigned EUFGIS organised with @euforgen.bsky.social ➡️ www.forgenius.eu/news/post/tr...
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Joint EUFORGEN-OptFORESTS webinar: Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest EUFORGEN & OptFORESTS webinar – Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest: consequences for climate change adaptation strategies 11 April 2025. 11:00 - 12:00 CET. ...

📢 Join the OptFORESTS & @euforgen.bsky.social webinar!

🌳 "Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest"
🗓️ 11 April | 🕚 11:00–12:00 CEST

How does #silviculture affect #genetic diversity?👉 Register now! www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

🔬At a time when #science is the subject of worrying criticism in the United States 🇺🇸 (censorship, shutdowns of major programs and announcement of massive layoffs in public research), INRAE ​​​​@inrae-france.bsky.social supports the #StandUpForScience movement ✊

Starting in Bluesky with a new experiment underway on drought resistance and thermal stress in Quercus ilex populations.

The deadline⌛️ for submissions is exactly one month from now!

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

"With the intensity of the challenges ahead of us, we can't do without the talent and creativity of half of humanity.

Solutions to our global problems are better for all of us when women are part of the decision-making." ~ Anne Larson

🔗: bit.ly/3ZVS9Hq

#WomenInScience

new paper in @evolappjournal.bsky.social with @felix-zimmermann.bsky.social !

Soil properties – water availability and pH – are strongly associated to the spatial distribution of two hybridizing and sympatric oak species (Quercus spp) at local stand scale.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Detecting genomic signatures of environmental adaption, an ETH/ @evoltree.bsky.social block course, running now with full intensity at @wslresearch.bsky.social. Great students, motivated instructors, and hot computers.

Climate change extinctions Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...

Must read out in @science.org "Climate change extinctions"
by @MarkCUrban (on X)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big take home:
"extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. The highest-emission scenario would threaten approximately one-third of species, globally."

New edition of the IUFRO Branching out podcast, this time featuring IUFRO 🧬Division 2 on Tree Physiology and Genetics and with the contribution of 🎤Amanda de la Torre (Northern Arizona University, USA) and 🎤Santiago C. González-Martínez (INRAE, France)

🚨 Coming soon! A brand new episode of Counting the Earth!

Join Alice and Sue as they time travel to the future to explore what crops we might grow in the UK after 50 years of a changing climate.

📲 Don't miss out - subscribe now on your favourite podcast platform.

Ecoflor2025 Ecoflor 2025, polinización, Ecología, León

🌿✨ ¡Descubre EcoFlor2025 en nuestra web!

Puedes encontrarnos en www.ecoflor2025.es

🌸🌷💚 #EcoFlor2025

Yesterday, we had our annual EVOLTREE Governing Board meeting. As always, it was really good to meet colleagues for planning next year activities! Many thanks all for attending the meeting and have an excellent festive season!

There’s a surge of interest in #microclimate & #microenvironment + how they shape #plant and #vegetation ecology🌿My 1999 PhD work tackled this - how fine-scale variation in canopy dynamics, topography etc drives palm ecology in tropical #forests:
www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🌴🌤️🍃#PlantEcology

OptFORESTS News #3 - December 2024 Don't miss the latest news from the Horizon Europe OptFORESTS project, focused on the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources to foster more resilient forests!

The December newsletter of OptFORESTS (an EU project dealing with forest genetic resources) is out, you can read it here: mailchi.mp/26f520a26bf9.... Also, you can visit www.optforests.eu for more information on the project!