SYMBAMPALM - International Symposium on Genetic Resources of Bamboos and Palms


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Programme

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

"Today's uses, Tomorrow's potentialities: a synergy East-West"

20 and 21/11 – PRE-TOURS 1 – BAMBOO and 2 - PALMS

21/11-SUNDAY

 

Opening session

Talks: Marco Antonio Teixeira Zullo - Director Instituto Agronômico –

IAC, Brazil

Lecture : Carlos Eduardo Ferreira de Castro – Brazil – Bamboo and
palm collections at IAC

22/11 - MONDAY

Morning: Characterization and Identification – Morphology and Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Anatomy

 8:00-9:00

Lecture (palm) : Harri  Lorenzi – Brazil  –  Brazilian palms 

 Lecture (bamboo): Antonio

Salgado – Brazil – Bamboos from Brazil: now, here and there 

 9:00-10:00

Lecture (palm): Andrew

Henderson – USA  –  The palms

of the Americas

Lecture (bamboo): Ximena

Londoño – Colombia – South American species

 10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

 10:30 – 11:30

Lecture (palm): –  Dennis Johnson  USA – Descriptors for in situ and ex situ Palm Collections

Lecture (bamboo): Tito Schiva –

Italy –  Overview of bamboos in

the world

 11:30 – 12:00

Lecture (palm): –  Larry Noblick
USA –
Syagrus and its other Cocosoid relatives

Oral Presentation

             12:00 – 14:00 - lunch

Afternoon: Conservation in situ, ex situ and Regeneration - Propagation Vegetative, Seeds and micropropagation, Breeding, Physiology

14:00 – 15:00

Lecture (palm): Hugh Pritchard – UK –  Palm seeds conservation

Lecture (bamboo): Yang Yuming China –  Tropical bamboos from China

15:00 – 16:00

Lecture (palm): Marcilio de Almeida –  Brazil  –   Peach palm micropropagation; before and after bacteriossomes

Lecture (bamboo): Umesh Kabade – India – Micropropagation of bamboos 

16:00 – 16:30

 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:00

Oral presentation

Oral presentation

17:00 – 18:00

Poster

23/11 - TUESDAY

Morning: Cultural Techniques – Planning and cultivation, plagues and diseases, harvesting

8:00-10:00

Lecture (palm): Ondino Cleante Bataglia  –  Brazil  – Palm nutrition

Lecture (bamboo): Raymond Thousend – UK – Cultivation technics at Kew Gardens

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30

Lecture (palm): Olga Maria Ripinskas Russomanno – Brazil – Palm fungi diseases

Lecture (palm): Palms plagues

Lecture (palm): Claudio Marcelo Gonçalves Oliveira – Brazil – Nematodes parasites of palms

 Oral Presentation

12:00 – 14:00 - lunch

Afternoon: Ecology – reforestation, environment impact, carbon uptake, protection of water resources, hreatened species, associated fauna and flora, biodiversity conservation

14:00 – 15:00

Lecture (palm): Anders Lindstrom – Thailand – Biodiversity in Thailand

Lecture (bamboo):  Fu Jinhe – China – Ecology and conservation and uses 

15:00 – 16:00

Lecture (palm): Michael D. Ferrero – Australia – Observations of endemic palms in Cuba

 Oral Presentation

16:00 – 16:30

 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:00

Oral Presentation

17:00 – 18:00

Poster

24/11 – WEDNESDAY – TECHNICAL VISIT - OPTIONAL

25/11 - THURSDAY

Morning: Uses, Marketing and Economy – valoration, architecture, food, landscape, handcraft and production

 8:00-9:00

Lecture (palm): Carlos Alex Lima Guimarães – Brazil – Piassava; from extraction to agricultural culture

Lecture (bamboo):  Jaime Almeida – Brasil – Architecture 

9:00-10:00

Lecture (palm): Ricardo Marinho – Brazil – Palms; landscape use.

Lecture (bamboo): Antonio Beraldo Preservation

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30

Lecture (palm): Palms for biofuels

Oral presentation

11:30 – 12:30

Lecture (palm): Brazilian Market for palms

Oral presentation

12:30 – 14:00 - lunch

Afternoon:  Uses, Marketing and Economy – valoration, architecture, food, landscape, handcraft and production

14:00 – 15:00

Lecture (palm): Commercial production of peach palm for extraction of palm hearth.

Lecture (bamboo): Etsuzoh Uchimura – Japan – Bamboo resources from worldwide point of view and changes of the utilization

15:00 – 16:00

Lecture (palm):Commercial production of Archontophoenix spp. For extraction of palm hearth.

Oral presentation 

Oral presentation

16:00 – 16:30

 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30

Poster

17:30

Closing Session

26, 27, 28, 29 and 30/11 – PÓS-TOUR 1 – Bamboos & Palms on the way to Rio

 

 

 








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