Progress Reports

On a regular basis the project team provides progress reports to the NSF as well as the community to provide
information as to the development of the project and to demonstrate progress. Listed below are links for
downloadable copies of such progress reports.

Timeline and Flow Chart Information

NSF Quarterly and Yearly Progress Reports

Annual Meeting, 2009

Monday, April 20th, 2009, members of the Fagaceae project team and scientific advisor board met at the Partners Building II at North Carolina State University. The following presentations were delivered at that meeting.

Title Author

Welcome and Project Overview
Ron Sederoff & Nick Wheeler

Transcriptome Analysis of American and Chinese Chestnut
Ali Barakat

Gene Discovery in Chinese Chestnut
Kathleen Baier

Marker Development and Linkage Mapping
Tom Kubisiak

Anchoring the Physical Map to the Genetic Map by Overgo Pool Hybridization
Bert Abbott

Fagaceae Genomics Web and Tripal Software Development
Meg Staton

Forest Health Initiative
Susan McCord

Annual Meeting, 2008

Friday and Saturday, May 8th and 9th, 2008, members of the Fagaceae project team and scientific advisor board met at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in Hamden, Connecticut. The following presentations were delivered at that meeting.

Title Author

Introduction and Progress Overview
Ron Sederoff

Project Review
Nick Wheeler

Cork Oak and European Chestnut - collaborations with the Portuguese
Alfredo Cravador

Sequencing Review and Pre-publication Outline
John Carlson

Genetic basis of resistance in trees to necrotrophs and biotrophs
John Davis

BAC fingerprinting and physical map progress
Jeff Tomkins

SSR marker status and projected mapping timelines
Tom Kubisiak

Website/Bioinformatics Interface
Meg Staton
Dendrome (Missing) Jill Wegrzyn

Annual Meeting, 2007

Sunday September 9th 2007, members of the Fagaceae project team and scientific advisor board met at the Hemlock Haven Conference Center in Hungry Mother State Park, just outside of Marion, VA and in close proximity to the American Chestnut Foundation's Meadowview Research Farms. The three days prior were the 9th were the NE1015 chestnut group annual meeting. The following are presentations delivered at that meeting.

Title Author

Introduction and Project Gantt Chart
Ron Sederoff/Nick Wheeler

cDNA Library Construction
Bill Powell

BAC Library Construction; Fingerprinting; cDNA Sequencing
Jeff Tomkins

454 Sequencing
John Carlson

Marker Screening
Tom Kubisiak/Ron Sederoff

Website, Wiki, and Online Tool Development
Meg Staton

NSF Project Leaders Meeting September 19, 2006, Arlington, VA

Mont Alto Reports, 2007

Sunday April 29th - Tuesday May 1st 2007, members of the Fagaceae project team and scientific advisor board met in Mont Alto at Penn State for the Schatz Tree Genetics Colloquium. The following are presentations delivered at that meeting as well as recommendations from the scientific advisory board.

Title Author

454 Transcriptome Sequencing
John Carlson

The American Chestnut Foundation Breeding Program
Fred Hebard

Foundation Genomic Tools development for the Fagaceae: BAC Library and Web-Based Resources
Jeff Tomkins

Construction of Castanea mollissima cDNA Libraries
Kathleen Baier

International Collaborations and Outreach
Nicholas Wheeler

Bioinformatic Analysis of DNA Sequence Data
Chris Smith, Stephen Ficklin, John Carlson, Ron Sederoff

Genetic Mapping and Molecular Markers in Chestnut
Paul Sisco

The Fagaceae Genomic Tool Development Project NSF PGRP 0605135 Project Overview
Ron Sederoff

Genetic Marker Data Pipeline for Chestnut
Tom Kubisiak, Paul Sisco

Scientific Advisory Board Recommendations
Members of the SAB

First Annual Meeting, 2006

The following reports were given at the first annual meeting:

Title Author

My Two Cents
Paul Sisco

Fagaceae Genomics Initiative. Genetic marker work (USDA FS SIFG)
Tom Kubisiak

The Fagaceae Genome Project
John Carlson

Genomic Tool Development for the Fagaceae
Nick Wheeler

2006 NSF Fagaceae Meeting
Fred Heberd

Fagaceae Project Overview: Goals and Strategies
Ron Sederoff

Fagaceae cDNA Library Construction
Bill Powell