Program
Session 1 – February 11th 07:00 UTC to 09:00 UTC
07:00 – 07:10 Opening address
07:10 – 07:30 Dr. Rattiya Lippe and Yonca Gürbüzer - Gender-disaggregated employment in the forest sector: Global and regional patterns
07:30 – 07:50 Dr. Iva Franic - Diversity and function of tree microbiota in a changing world: A plant health perspective
07:50 – 08:10 Shae Swanepoel - Co-expression network analysis characterizes the common defense responses of Eucalyptus to diverse biotic challenges
08:10 - 08:30 Priscilla Kimani - Tissue culture of woody plants: opportunities and constraints for Africa
08:30 – 09:00 Open discussion
Session 2 – February 11th 20:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC
20:00 – 20:10 Opening address
20:10 – 20:30 Dr. Rocío Melina García - Pathways to sustainability: Identifying leverage points for forest governance in a protected area from Patagonia
20:30 – 20:50 Dr. Mee Sook Kim - The forest microbiome and forest disease
20:50 – 21:10 Dr Sheryl Yap - Diversity of Auchenorrhyncha in the Philippines
21:10 - 21:30 Dr. Claudia Elizabeth Moreno Ortega- Effects of forest loss in dung beetle diversity in central Mexico
21:30 - 21:50 Dr. María Teresa Pulido Silva - Perspectives on the sustainable management of palms in Mexico
21:50 - 22:00 Open discussion
Session 3 – February 12th 14:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC
14:00 – 14:10 Opening address
14:10 - 14:30 Dr Jessica Hartshorn - Greater than the sum of its parts: promoting diversity in natural resources
14:30 – 14:50 Dr. Violet Butterwort - The great diversity of beetle symbioses and their roles in forest pathology
14:50 – 15:10 Dr. Quynh Dang - Pests and diseases of Cinnamon in Vietnam
15:10 – 15:30 Dr Katharina Budde - Forest genetics: understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in forest tree species
15:30 - 15:50 Juliet Achieng - Driving sustainability and transformative change in the forest sector-Insights from FoRISK and the ForGEDI MOOC
15:50 – 16:00 Open discussion