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Highlights - TBGRC 2007-2008 Annual Meeting and Report

  • Grant support strong
    - 800K to 1 million/yr in 07-09
    - Industry funds ~8% of total
    - Great leverage continues!

  • Center for Advanced Forestry (CAFS) established (~19k/yr, National Science Foundation):
    NSF Center began at OSU, now includes NC State, Virginia Tech, and Purdue.

  • Strong participation in national and international regulatory-biosafety activities.
    This includes production of a Society of American Foresters position statement o GMO trees, taking part in the intenational Public Research and Regulation Initiative meetings at the UN Convention on Biodiversity, attended Conventional meetings in Montreal, Rome, and Bonn.

  • Participation in two USA National Research Council Committees.
    One concerns GE crops and trees (GMO Ecological Issues for Wildlands), and the other on the Future of Plant Genomics.

  • Strauss led symposium called "Physiological sculpture of plants: New visions and capabilities for crop development, New Phytologist Tansley Symposium, in September 2008 at Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon USA.
    Its goal: Integration and vision about breakthrough possibilities based on new genomics and plant science.

To obtain a full copy of an annual technical report please contact:

Steven Strauss
steven.strauss@oregonstate.edu
(541) 737-6578 / (541) 737-6562

Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society
321 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5752

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