11th International Oak Society Conference 2025: Session Recordings

The IOS is pleased to share videos of the presentations that took place during the Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. They will also be written up in Issue No. 37 of International Oaks, the IOS Journal.

Click on the titles in green to access videos of the sessions listed below. 

Sessions

October 5

Opening

• Antonio González Rodríguez / Welcome
• Maricela Rodríguez Acosta / Global Conservation Consortium for Oaks
• Nelly Jazmín Pacheco Cruz / Land Acknowledgement Statement

October 6

Session 1

• Roderick Cameron / International Oak Society President / Opening remarks
• Susana Valencia-A. / Keynote / Mexican Oaks: a History of Their Evolution, Importance, and Taxonomic Mystery
• Nelly Jazmín Pacheco Cruz / Conservation Genomics of Quercus macdougallii: Integrating Population Genomics, Functional Annotation, and Edaphic Analyses
• Tania Martínez León / Population Genomics and Land-Use Change Analysis for Quercus mulleri, a Oaxacan endemic
• Karina Orozco / Conservation Gap Analysis of Mesoamerican Oaks: Establishing Conservation Priorities

Session 2

• Allen J. Coombes / Recognition of Quercus oocarpa Liebm. as a Species Distinct from Q. insignis M. Martens & Galeotti
• Sofía Zorrilla Azcué / Effect of Environmental Heterogeneity on Adaptive Allele Frequencies in Quercus insignis M. Martens & Galeotti
• Lizeth Melissa Naranjo Bravo / High Intraspecific Variation in Functional Traits of Quercus insignis Seedlings Reveals Evidence of Local Adaptation
• Fernando Pineda García / Oak Distribution Patterns and Water Relations in the Sierra de Santa Rosa, Guanajuato

Session 3

• Andrew L. Hipp / Interfertile Oak Species as Evolution’s Workshop
• Ryan Brooks / Increasing Purity of Extracted Genomic DNA from Young Oak Leaves
• Roderick Cameron / Validation of the Hybrid Name Quercus ×mazei

Session 4

• Edward Amory / The Past, Present and Future Roles of Private Arboreta in Securing Our Oak Heritage
• Philip Crim / Building an Oak Collection Based on Local Provenance, Microhabitats, and Conservation Design
• Tamara Citlali Ochoa Álvarez / Associating Insect Herbivory with Leaf Traits and Phenology Along an Environmental Gradient in Quercus castanea
• Goretty Nayeli Mendoza Juárez / High Differentiation of Foliar Endophytic Fungi Communities in Coexisting Mexican White and Red Oaks
• María Camila Latorre Cárdenas / Using Genomics and Landscape Ecology for Prioritizing Conservation of Oak Populations in Mexican Temperate Forests
• Victoria Sork / Preserving Oaks and Oak Ecosystems Vulnerable to Climate Change
• Zarah Wyly / Learning Among Oaks: Youth Nature Education on California’s Central Coast

October 7

Session 5

• Jeannine Cavender-Bares / Ecological Diversification of Oaks: Tests of Adaptive Evolution Across Environmental Niches Using Spectroscopy
• Mariana Hernández Leal / Foliar Spectral Signatures Reveal Adaptive Divergence in Section Virentes Across Species and Environmental Niches (Virtual Presentation)
• Akiko Satake / Evolution of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (BVOC) Emissions in Fagaceae

Session 6

• Antoine Kremer / Temporal Genetic Changes and Resilient Responses of Oaks to Recent Environmental Changes
• Botond Boldizsár Lados / Climate-Adaptive Reproductive Material Sourcing of Quercus cerris in Central Europe
• Blair McLaughlin / Climate Change and California Oaks: New Threats and Adaptation Strategies
• Angela Moskow / California Oaks Underground

Session 7

• Fredric Miller / Relative Suitability of Asian and Eurasian Oaks for Spongy Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) (Virtual Presentation)
• Gabriela Wiener Castillo / Restoration of the Magdalena Contreras Oak Forest in Mexico City
• Byron Joel / Dehesa Australis: Productive Oak Savanna in Australia's Mediterranean-Climate Regions

Session 8

• Oscar De Luna Bonilla / The Conundrum of Shrub Oaks in Mexico
• Yan Wu / Assessing the Status of Quercus kingiana Using Occurrence Data, Ecological Niche Modeling, and Spatial Threat Indices (Virtual Presentation)
• Luting Liu /  Inflated and Cryptic Oak Diversity in East Asia: a Case Study of the Quercus engleriana Complex (Virtual Presentation)
• Maribel Arenas Navarro / Extinction Risk Assessment for the Conservation of Five Endemic Mexican Oak Species
• Dario Berrini & Christy Powell / Ex-Situ Conservation of Six Oak Species at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
• Rebeca Nowak / Contemplation and Botanical Art of the Oak

October 8

Session 9

• Khaoula El Khatib / A History of Acorn-Based Food in Morocco
• Tarin Toledo Aceves / High Survival of Threatened Cloud-Forest Oaks in Restoration Plantings in Mexico
• Cody Azotea / WashU Arboretum and Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies Team Up for Trail Marker Trees
• Ian Pearse / Gall Wasp Diversity on Section Quercus oaks in Eastern North America

Session 10

• Phillip Schulze / Population Monitoring and Current Status of Quercus hinckleyi
• Qiansheng Li / In-Vitro Propagation and Conservation of Five Imperiled Southeastern US Oak Species (Virtual Presentation)
• Megan Philpott / Improvements to the Initiation of Rare and Common Oaks into Tissue Culture for Ex-Situ Conservation (Virtual Presentation)
• Nikola Šušić / A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Sacred Oaks of Šumadija (Serbia)