IUFRO Tree Biotechnology
2027 Conference
Intelligent Forests - Facing the Future
25-30 April 2027
Stellenbosch, South Africa
The IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Meeting is the premier biennial international conference focused on everything tree biotechnology. Forests are adapting, responding to, and mitigating climate change. We, through biotechnology, genomics, genetics, physiology, engineering, and data science, are trying to harness that intelligence and augment it so that forests and the communities that depend on them can be sustained.
This year’s meeting will take place in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape Winelands of South Africa, less than an hour away from the city of Cape Town and all of its attractions. Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria will co-host the meeting. It is an opportunity for the international community of tree biotechnology researchers to gather and learn about recent advances, new methods, and consider how new technologies can be used for genetic improvement in a changing and developing world. This is the biennial meeting of the IUFRO Working Party 2.04.06 (Molecular biology of forest trees), and the previous meeting was held in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, in August 2024.
The Meeting
About IUFRO
IUFRO is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists that promotes global cooperation in forest-related research and enhances the understanding of the ecological, economic, and social aspects of forests and trees. IUFRO is "the" global network for forest science cooperation. It unites more than 15,000 scientists in almost 700 Member Organisations in over 110 countries, and is a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Scientists cooperate in IUFRO voluntarily.
