🌲We have launched a Europe-wide stakeholder survey to help strengthen forest #resilience. Scientists, policymakers & #forest practitioners are invited to share insights on genetic diversity and forest reproductive material. 👉 Have your say for Europe’s forests! www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

OptFORESTS launches Europe-wide stakeholder survey to strengthen forest resilience

OptFORESTS invites forest scientists, policymakers and practitioners to share insights through a new stakeholder survey, helping strengthen Europe’s forest resilience through genetic diversity and bet...

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📰Abstract submission is open for the: 🌱International Conference 'Seed Orchards 2026' 🗓️18-22 May 2026 📍Suwon, Republic of Korea ⌛️Submission deadline: 20 April 2026 🔗 public.thinkonweb.com/sites/soic20... #ForestScience #ForestResearch #WeCantLiveWithoutForests

New roots for future forests 🌳 The OptFORESTS common garden in southern France brings together oaks and pines from across Europe to study climate adaptation...despite rain, rocks and tortoises! Find out more 👇 #ForestScience #HorizonEU #INRAE #ClimateAction www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

Planting the OptFORESTS Mediterranean common garden in southern France

Bruno Fady and Carine Dublineau (INRAE URFM, Avignon) describe their adventures in planting seedlings for a provenance test in southern France's Maures Mountains.

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Save the date! On 8 April, 16:00 CEST, @evoltree.bsky.social hosts UC Berkeley’s Prof. Rasmus Nielsen for a seminar on adaptive genetic variation in non‑model species. Find out more: www.euforgen.org/about-us/new...

Online seminar: "Mapping adaptive genetic variation in non-model species"

EVOLTREE is pleased to announce a new event in the network’s series of online seminars. For Spring 2026, we have will have the honour of hearing from UC Berkeley’s Prof Rasmus Nielsen, a leading evolu...

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Do you work with non-model species? 🌳🐟🪲🦝 📣 Don't miss Prof. Rasmus Nielsen webinar: 🗓️ 8th April 16:00 CEST The registration is now open: www.evoltree.eu/evoltree-onl... Find additional information here: www.evoltree.eu/webinars/web... Looking forward to your participation!

Registration will open soon! Our current president, Michael Nachman (www.nachmanlab.org), has put together a great line up of speakers covering various topics in polygenic adaptation. Full list of speakers can be found on our homepage: https://theaga.org #AGA2026

You can now register for the EVOLTREE webinar at www.evoltree.eu/evoltree-onl...

EVOLTREE online webinar 8 April 2026

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📣 New EVOLTREE webinar! 🗓️ 8th April 16:00 CET Prof Rasmus Nielsen will talk on "Mapping adaptive genetic variation in non-model species" Link: vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/rasm... Save the date and visit www.evoltree.eu/webinars in a few days for registration and additional information.

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

After a long break, IUFRO Population & Conservation Genetics conferences are back! Happening now, in Coimbatore (India), organized by IUFRO Unit 2.04.01 and APFORGEN, and hosted by ICFRE. Live streaming in the conference website: icpcgindia2026.in @iufro.bsky.social @bioversityciat.bsky.social

Teaching is fun! The ETH @evoltree.bsky.social block course "Genomics of Environmental Adapation" at @wslresearch.bsky.social is in full action now.

⚡️Abstract submission has been extended to 15 December! ➡️ icpcgindia2026.in

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📢Call for Abstracts for: 🌱International Conference on Population and Conservation Genetics🧬 🗓️28-30 January 2026; 📍Coimbatore, India ⚡️Abstract submission closes on 30 November! ➡️ icpcgindia2026.in #ForestScience #ForestResearch #WeCantLiveWithoutForests

Last week was a blast! Attending the @evoltree.bsky.social - @forgenius-eu.bsky.social conference hosted by INIA CSIC on "Integrative Diversity of Forest Ecosystems" was unforgettable.

Today's field trip: selecting continental site for @optforests.bsky.social project in cooperation with local forest managers and representatives of Slovenian state forests. Found a great candidate in the Kočevsko region.

This week was one of my favourite conferences #evoltree in Madrid. I was happy to chat with a lot of people about our work and to present our beech pangenome. As always I heard and learned from a lot of great speakers. Thanks @evoltree.bsky.social 💚

Final words from Delphine and Beppe, and the Joint EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS Conference is closed. It was great fun to discuss science with all you! Enjoy your weekend! And don't miss the next #EVOLTREE Conference in 2027 (venue to be announced soon)!

Amazing field trip with the #EvolTREE conference. Wonderful to learn of the new breeding efforts in Cork oak and Holm oak, integrations of new technologies, and degree of monitoring for conservation that has leveraged, expanded, and established leadership in genetic conservation

Some key moments of my EVOLTREE experience. Always a pleasure to join the EVOLTREE conference and be part the community! 🌳🧬 #EVOLTREE

Marija Kravanja, one of the PhD students supported by an #EVOLTREE grant to attend the conference, presented an original study using FORGENIUS data on the correlation between genetic diversity and resilience, as estimated by restoration rates obtained from satellite data.

Victoria Sork from UCLA opened the session 5 on genetic conservation by presenting common garden and landscape genomics approaches to study maladaptation and guide conservation in Californian oaks #EVOLTREE

Genomic selection and genomics in tree breeding - Keynote from Fikret Isik for session 4 of the EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS in Madrid

Modelling the ideal loblolly pine for climate change. Fascinating keynote from Marylou Mantova for Session 3 of the EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS conference

Mona Schreiber‘s graphical summary of Session 2 keynote of Silvia Matesanz at the EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS conference

We had a magical night at the #EVOLTREE conference dinner, with live folk music, excellent food, and a warm tribute to Beppe Vendramin, a very dear member of our community ❤️

Visit to one of the Spanish National Breeding Centres. Spain has 327 Genetic Conservation Units (GCUs) involving 20 main tree species, 228 of which have been genetically characterised! #EVOLTREE

A creative way of taking notes at the EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS conference. Mona Schreiber‘s graphical summary of David O‘Brien‘s keynote from yesterday.

Santiago González-Martínez from @inrae-france.bsky.social, our own #EVOLTREE coordinator, gave a talk on the connections between genetic diversity, historical demography, and rates of adaptive evolution in 4 species of conifers. He also cautioned on the applicability of genomic forecasting methods.

Second Day starts with an amazing keynote talk on genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity by Silvia Matesanz from URJC. Great talk Silvia! #EVOLTREE

So happy to be with European colleagues in Madrid for #EvolTREE to share new ideas, technologies, and applications of forest genetics to conservation, restoration, breeding, and much, much more

Christian Rellstab (WSL, Switzerland) presented how hybridisation and admixture enhance drought tolerance in oaks. This work was supported by an #EVOLTREE Opportunity grant, a program that provides niche funding for research in forest genetics and genomics. www.evoltree.eu/funding-init...