Program

Dead Wood Meeting 2015 program includes lectures, presentations and poster sessions by researchers & students covering a broad range of dead wood related topics from molecular level to regional scale.

Sunday, May 24, 2015 – Introduction and data day

14.00 – 14.30 Dmitry Schigel: Opening & welcome
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 15.30 Hanna Koivula: How to make sure your data don’t decay? Hanna also recommends slides presented at the iDigBio course by Andrew Short (University of Kansas) with Tips and Workflows for Managing Field Data, with a note that IDs containing information are NOT good for persistent global IDs.
15:30 – 16:45 Poster session
Maria Kozlova: Genomic organization of laccase multigene family of fungus
Phanerochaete avellanea voucher LE<RUS>:2009
Olga Klein: Comparative secretome analysis of Trametes maxima in the presence of humic substances
Olga Mosunova: Characterization of lignocellulose-degrading complex of a white-rot fungus Phanerochaete avellanea voucher LE<RUS>2009
Alexander Tyrin: Microsites structure of tall-herb dark taiga of Northern Urals
17.00 – 18.00 Dinner
19.00 – 23.00 Sauna

Monday, May 25, 2015 – Fungal day

8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 – 9.45 Jan Stenlid. Invited lecture: Fast, Furious or Fussy
– Biological and Physical Factors Influencing the Fungal Colonization of Dead Wood
9:45 – 10:10 Otso Ovaskainen. Invited lecture:
Should we do fruit-body inventories, sequencing, or both?
10.10
– 10.30 Panu Somervuo. Invited lecture:
Probabilistic taxonomic classification of DNA sequences
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.00 Presentations, fungi:
Katja Juutilainen Communities of wood-inhabiting corticioid fungi in different boreal broadleaved forest types
Hui Sun Fungal community shifts in structure and function across a boreal forest fire chronosequence
Konstantin Moiseenko New next generation sequencing based method for exploration of laccase multigene family in basidiomycetes fungi
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Group photo and short walk close to the station with Tuomo Niemelä
14.00 – 14.30 Coffee break
14.30 – 16.00 Presentations, fungi:
Jenna Purhonen Lessons from species specific fruiting phenologies
Anna Norberg The link from traits to occurrences in wood decaying fungi
Reijo Penttilä Effects of forest restoration by fire on polypores – a case study from Finland based on a 23-year monitoring period
16:00 Alexander Ryss. DEMO:
Training on the simple tech of extraction of nematodes from wood and soil
17.00 – 19.00 Meeting dinner

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 – Invertebrates day

8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 – 9.30 Sylvie Barbalat. Invited lecture:
Saproxylic beetle conservation projects in Neuchâtel, Western Switzerland
9.30 – 10.00 Alexander Ryss. Invited lecture: Xylobiont nematodes of St Petersburg and Moscow regions: associations, life cycles, refuges, risk for forest and park plantations
10.00
– 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 12.00 Presentations, insects
Pablo Ramilo Ríos Introduction to the study of the relationship between volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by tree species Q. pyrenaica and the saproxylic beetles assemblages
Sarah Hart The early stage of wood decay: volatile attraction
Jevgeni Jakovlev Methodological approaches to rearing from deadwood
Kristina Polyanina Nematodes of Ulmaceae wood vectored by Scolytus spp. beetles
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 17.00 Excursion, Kotinen Nature Reserve. We leave at 13:00 sharp!
17.30 – 18.30 Dinner
18:30 – 19:00 Panu Somervuo DEMO:
Handling the next generation sequence data: software demonstration
19.00 – 23.00 Sauna

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 – Ecology and conservation day

8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 Renata Krzyściak-Kosińska Invited lecture:
Białowieża National Park as biodiversity hotspot in Europe
9.30 – 9.50 Nerea Abrego Does connectivity matter for fungal conservation?
10.00 – 11.00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Panu Halme Invited lecture:
All Star Dead Wood Circus – Home of 100 Wonders – But for how long?
11:30 – 12:00 Dmitry Schigel Dead Wood Movie trailer and closing
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14:00 Jevgeni Jakovlev DEMO: using Malaise trap