Plant Canada 2024
Program – Plant Canada 2024
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Draft Plant Canada Program (subject to change)
Saturday July 6, 2024
| EXHIBITOR SET-UP starting from 12:00 – 18:00 |
| EARLY POSTER SET-UP available from 15:00 – 18:00 |
Sunday July 7, 2024
| 08:00-16:00 | Registration Table Open |
| 08:00-19:00 | Poster viewing and exhibits |
| 09:00-14:00 | Tour A: The LEAF and self-guided Assiniboine Park walk (registration req) |
| 09:30-14:00 | Tour B: The LEAF Tour and Conviron Plant Tour (registration req) |
| 08:00-14:00 | CPS FAC and Outgoing Board Meeting |
| 10:00-12:00 | CSPB Outgoing Executive Meeting |
| 12:00-14:00 | Workshop 1- Survival in the jungle of scholarly publishing (registration req) |
| 13:00-15:00 | Plant Canada Outgoing Board and Annual General Meetings |
| 15:30-17:00 | CAPB Outgoing General Meeting |
| 16:00-17:30 | CBA Outgoing Executive Meeting |
| 11:00-13:00 | CSHS Outgoing Board Meeting |
| 14:30-16:30 | Workshop 2- Metabarcoding for phytopathogens (registration req) |
| 17:30-17:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 17:45-18:45 | Keynote Address by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois |
| 18:45-19:30 | Major Society Awards Presentation |
| 19:30-22:00 | Plant Canada Welcoming Reception Mixer |
Monday July 8, 2024
| 08:00-16:00 | Registration Table Open |
| 08:00-19:00 | Poster viewing and exhibits |
| 08:00-08:30 | Coffee Break |
| 08:30-11:30 | Plenary 1: Plant Biotechnology for a Changing World |
| 11:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 11:15-13:00 | Workshop 3- Developing community for plant biology teaching (registration req) |
| 11:15-13:00 | CBA Section Meetings (Mycology, Ecology, Systematics, Development) |
| 11:15-13:00 | CAPB Annual General Meeting |
| 11:30-12:30 | CSA Executive Meeting |
| 11:30-13:00 | CPS Annual Business Meeting |
| 13:15-2:45 | Concurrent Sessions |
| 14:45-15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15-17:00 | Concurrent Sessions |
| 17:00-19:00 | Poster Session 1 |
| 19:00-21:00 | CSPB Mixer (members only), CPS President Reception (by invitation) |
| 20:30-22:30 | All Society Student Social |
Tuesday July 9, 2024
| 08:00-16:00 | Registration Table Open |
| 08:00-19:00 | Poster viewing and exhibits |
| 08:00-08:30 | Coffee Break |
| 08:30-11:00 | Plenary 2: Emerging Technologies to Enhance Production in a Changing Environment |
| 11:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 11:15-13:00 | Workshop 4 – Weed genomics (no registration req) |
| 11:15-13:00 | Workshop 5 – Gene editing (no registration req) |
| 11:15-13:00 | CBA Section Meetings |
| 11:15-13:00 | CropLife Symposia: Resistance Management |
| 13:15-14:45 | Concurrent Sessions |
| 14:45-15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15-17:00 | Concurrent Sessions |
| 17:00-19:00 | Poster Session 2 |
| 19:00-23:00 | CPS Awards Dinner (registration required) |
Wednesday July 10, 2024
| BEFORE NOON | Please pick up posters |
| 08:00-12:00 | Registration Table Open |
| 08:00-08:30 | Coffee Break |
| 08:30-1100 | Plenary 3: Emerging Technologies in Plant Health |
| 11:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 11:15-13:15 | CSHS Annual Business Meeting |
| 11:15-13:30 | CSPB Annual Business Meeting |
| 11:30-13:30 | CBA Annual General Meeting and Awards |
| 11:30-13:00 | CSA Annual General Meeting and Awards |
| 11:30-12:30 | CAPB Award Deliberations |
| 12:30-13:30 | CAPB Student Presentation Awards |
| 13:30-15:10 | Plenary 4: Emerging Concepts in Plant Biology |
| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40-16:45 | CD. Nelson Award Talk & Carl Douglas Award talk |
| 17:00-17:30 | Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks |
| 17:30-18:30 | Plant Canada Incoming Board Meeting |
| 19:00-23:00 | ALL SOCIETY FINAL BANQUET DINNER |
Draft Plant Canada Program (pdf)
Sunday July 7, 2024: Keynote talk by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Laboratory, Dalhousie University
Monday July 8, 2024:
Plenary Session 1- Plant Biotechnology for a Changing World
Speakers:
Dr. Louis-Philippe Hamel (Medicago, Inc: Understanding plant molecular responses to the production of enveloped VLPs leads to the improvement of a molecular farming expression platform)
Dr. Dan Voytas (University of Minnesota; Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing)
Dr. Nicola Patron (University of Cambridge; Synthetic biology for metabolic pathway engineering in photosynthetic organisms)
Tuesday July 9, 2024:
Plenary Session 2- Emerging Technologies to Enhance Production in a Changing Environment
Speakers:
Dr. Matthew Reynolds (CIMMYT, Mexico: Crop Physiology, genomics and cropping systems)
Dr. Eric Patterson (Michigan State: Building weed genomics resources through international collaboration and exciting new discoveries from the genomics frontier)
Dr. Sara Martin (AAFC, Ottawa: Changing Environment, Changing Genes: Insights from Weed Genetics and Genomics)
Wednesday July 10, 2024:
Plenary Session 3- Emerging Technologies in plant health
Speakers:
Dr. Jan Leach (University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University) Intergenic spaces: A new frontier to improving plant health)
Dr. Martina Strömvik (McGill University) The Petota super-pangenome and potato wild relatives
Dr. Brent McCallum (AAFC Morden: Combating a Dynamic Wheat Rust Population in Canada)
Plenary Session 4- Emerging Concepts in Plant Biology
Dr. Lacey Samuels (University of British Columbia; Building plant biomass: secondary cell wall biosynthesis)
Dr. Heather McFarlane (University of Toronto; Modifying the plant cell wall from the inside out)
C.D. Nelson Award talk: Dr. Guanqun Chen (University of Alberta; Producing Specialty Oil with Unusual Fatty Acids for Sustainable Growth in Agriculture and Fermentation)
Carl Douglas Award talk Dr. Mark Minow (University of Georgia: The heritability of chromatin accessibility in Zea mays)
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