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Sunday July 7, 2024: Keynote talk by 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:
Matthew Reynolds (CIMMYT, Mexico: Crop Physiology, genomics and cropping systems)
Eric Patterson (Michigan State: Building weed genomics resources through international collaboration and exciting new discoveries from the genomics frontier)
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:
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

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