Purdue University
Department of
Forestry and
Natural Resources
 Future Forests: Emerging Physiological and Genetic Technologies 
Speakers 
 
Revised:
April 19, 2007
North American Forest Biology Workshop
May 20-23, 2007
Hosted by Purdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Bloomington Convention Center
Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Invited Speakers

Peter Farnum: “A proposed research program regarding the ecological and population genetics effects of transgenic trees”
             Peter retired as Vice President of Technology and Timberlands, Weyerhaeuser Company.
C. Dana Nelson: "Genome guided approaches to advances in forest tree physiology"
            Dana is with the Southern Institute of Forest Genetics of the USDA Forest Service in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Maud Hinchee:"The benefits of tree biotechnology"
            Maud is Chief Scientific Officer with ArborGen in Summerville, South Carolina.
John Pait: “Large Scale Varietal Forestry”
            John is Senior Vice-President of Business Development for CellFor Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia.CellFor is a seed biotechnology company which produces elite varieties of conifers for reforestation. John also serves on the board of directors at the Institute of Forest Biotechnology.
Theodore H. Wegner: “Nanotechnology for the forest products industry”
            Ted, Assistant Director of the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, has been a leader advancing nanotechnology within the forest products industry.  He co-chaired the first US workshop (2004) on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry and is co-editor of the “Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry: Vision and Technology Roadmap”. 

Banquet Keynote Speaker

Allen Pursell: "Expecting the unexpected: How conservation management decisions can produce                         unexpected results." 
            Allen is Interior Low Plateau Director, The Nature Conservancy in Indiana