PROGRAMME

OF EVENTS

TREE SEED CONFERENCE (Back to index page)

 

 

 

Mon 22 Sept

 

 

p.m.

Arrival

Univ. Sussex

17:00 h

Registration

 

18:00 h

Welcome reception

 

19:00 h

Opening Speech

Don MacIver:  Policy and Politics of Climate Change

20:00 h

Close

 

 

 

 

Tues 23 Sept

 

 

08:30 h

Coach departs for Wakehurst Place

 

09:30 h

Coffee and Registration

 

09:45 h

Opening comment

Prof H. Pritchard (RBG, Kew)

10:00-13:00 h

SESSION 1A:

CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS AND PREDICTED IMPACTS

10:00-10:45h

Invited speaker

Prof T. Wheeler (Univ Reading): Overview

13:00 h

Lunch

 

 

 

 

14:00 h

Tour of gardens

Time to explore the gardens of Wakehurst Place

16:00-17:00 h

SESSION 1B (cont’d) :

CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS AND PREDICTED IMPACTS

17:15 h

Coach departure

Departure from main public car park

18:30 h

Dinner

 

 

 

 

Wed  24 Sept

Univ. Sussex

 

9:15 -13:00 h

SESSION 2

ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC INTERACTIONS

9:15-10:00 h

Invited speaker 1

Prof Sir I. Prance (ITF & Eden Project) Tropical biodiversity

11:30-12:15 h

Invited speaker 2

Prof M. Simmonds (Kew) Biotic threats

13:00 h

Lunch

 

 

 

 

14:00-17:00h

SESSION 3A

TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE TREE SEED BIOLOGY

14:00-14:45 h

Invited speaker

Prof P. Berjak (Univ KwaZulu Natal) Tree seed biology

 

 

 

18:30 h

Conference Dinner

University of Sussex

 

 

 

Thurs 25 Sept

Univ. Sussex

 

09:15- 13:00 h

SESSION 3B

TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE TREE SEED BIOLOGY

13.00 h

Lunch

 

 

 

 

14:00-16:45 h

SESSION 4

APPLIED ASPECTS: CONSERVATION, CRYOPRESERVATION, RESTORATION ETC.

14:00-14:45 h

Invited speaker

Dr T. Beardmore (NRC, Canada) Tree biotechnology

 

 

 

Fri 26 Sept

Departure

 

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