Plant Canada 2024
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Meet the 2024 speakers
Keynote speaker, July 7:
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.
Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. He co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, discussing issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries and which is the most listened Canadian management podcast in Canada. Every year since 2012, he has published the now highly anticipated Canadian Food Price Report, which provides an overview of food price trends for the coming year. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries.
July 8 Plenary Speakers
Understanding plant molecular responses to the production of enveloped VLPs leads to the improvement of a molecular farming expression platform
Synthetic biology for metabolic pathway engineering in photosynthetic organisms
Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing
July 9 Plenary Speakers
Crop Physiology, Genomics and Cropping Systems
Building weed genomics resources through international collaboration and exciting new discoveries from the genomics frontier
Changing Environment, Changing Genes: Insights from Weed Genetics and Genomics
July 10 AM Plenary Speakers
Intergenic spaces: A new frontier to improving plant health
The Petota super-pangenome and potato wild relatives
Combating a dynamic wheat rust population in Canada
July 10 PM Plenary Speakers
Building plant biomass: secondary cell wall biosynthesis.
Modifying the plant cell wall from the inside out.
Acids for sustainable growth in agriculture and fermentation
The heritability of chromatin accessibility in Zea mays.
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