Feedback by Adélaïde Theraroz

Adélaïde Theraroz, July 2024

I attended the XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 Forests And Society Towards 2050 in Stockholm, which welcomed more than four thousand people from all over the world where I had the opportunity to present a poster entitled “The genetic consequences of marginality: a case study in maritime pine” in the T3.26 “Multi-disciplinary approaches to the modelling of FGR resilience: there's more than genetics to Forest Genetic Resources” which was sponsored and organised by the FORGENIUS team, and co-chaired by FORGENIUS’ coordinator, Ivan Scotti, and by FORGENIUS members Marjana Westergren and François Lefèvre.

As well as presenting my work, the conference was an excellent opportunity to broaden my knowledge of forest genetics and all the related fields. It was also the ideal place to make contacts and listen to the brilliant and inspiring talks given by famous researchers whose work I had been reading for some years.

I am very grateful to EVOLTREE for giving me the opportunity to attend this conference, which was a unique experience for my PhD and from which I returned with a broader view of overseas forest genetics.