Agenda
Monday, July 26

8:30am	Welcome	Alvin Yanchuk, BC Forest Service
8:45am	The S7.01 IUFRO Working Groups	Bill Mattson, USDA Forest Service
9:00am	Major 'R' gene resistance - possiblities and parallels between pathogens and insects	John King, BC Forest Service
9:20am	Traumatic resinosis in Sitka spruce - a resistance mechanism against attack by the white pine weevil	Aine Plante, Simon Fraser Univ
9:40am	Weevil resistance of progeny derived from resistant and susceptible interior spruce parents	Lara van Akker, Pacific Forestry Centre
10:00am	Deployment issues with weevil resistant Sitka spruce	Charlie Cartwright, BC Forest Service
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Resistance breeding against the green spruce aphid Elatobium abietinum (Walker). Results from the Danish breeding programme	Hans Roulund, Royal Vet and Ag U, Denmark
11:20am	Genetic resistance to herbivores in western red cedar	John Russell, BC Forest Service
12:00am	Lunch
1:30pm	Disease resistance in woody plants	George Newcombe, Univ of Idaho
2:00pm	Early survival, height, and blister rust performance of Pinus albicaulis seed sources from the Inland Empire	Mary Frances Mahalovich, USDA Forest Service
2:20	Insect resistance breeding of Phytophthera lateralis, an exotic root pathogen, in Chamaecyparis lawsoniana	Scott Kolpak, USDA Forest service
2:40pm	Genome BC's project with resistance to tip weevil in spruce	Genome BC, Treenomix project, Dainis Rungis, UBC
3:00pm	Session summary	A. Yanchuk