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
- Gantt Chart (Updated in May, 2010)
- Flow Chart of Data between Participants
- Flow Chart of Marker Development and Deployment
NSF Quarterly and Yearly Progress Reports
- Year 4, Quarter 3 Report(Mar 2010 - May 2010)
- Year 4, Quarter 2 Report(Dec 2009 - Feb 2010)
- Year 4, Quarter 1 Report(Sep 2009 - Nov 2009)
- Year 3, Quarter 4 Report(Jun 2009 - Aug 2009)
- Year 3, Quarter 3 Report(Mar 2009 - May 2009)
- Year 3, Quarter 1 Report(Sep 2008 - Nov 2008)
- Year 2, Quarter 4 Report(Jun 2008 - Aug 2008)
- Year 2, Quarter 3 Report (Mar 2008 - May 2008)
- Year 2, Quarter 2 Report (Dec 2007 - Feb 2008)
- Year 2, Quarter 1 Report (Sep 2007 - Nov 2007)
- First Annual Progress Report (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)
- Year 1, Quarter 4 Report (June 2007-Aug 2007)
- Year 1, Quarter 2 Report (Dec 2006-Feb 2007)
- Year 1, Quarter 1 Report (Sep 2006-Nov 2006)
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
- Genomic Tool Development for the Fagaceae , Ron Sederoff
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 |