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Plant Canada Scientific Organizing Committee

The current meeting would not have been possible without the hard w ork and dedication of Plant Canada board m embers,
Drs. John M arkham (chair) Diane Edwards, Deena Errampalli, Anja Geitmann and Fn!deri que Gulnel, and participation of
the loca l organ izing committee.

Janice Cooke Jocelyn Hall St ephen Strelkov Prof. Karen Tanino
Canadian Society of Plant Canadian Botanical Canadian Phytopathologi ca l Canadian Societ y for
Biologist s, University of Association, Department Society, Agricult ure Food and Horticultural Science,
Alberta, Department of of Biologica I Sciences Nutritional Science Dept. Plant Sciences,
BiologlcaI Sciences University of Alberta Universit y of Albert a Universit y of Saskatchewan,
j an l ce.c ooke@ u alb e rta.ca jocelyn.hall@ualberta.ca s t ep hen .strelko v@u alb e r ta.ca ka ren.tanlno@usask.ca

Last but not least, the Pl ant Canada board of directors wo uld like to acknowl edge the h ardw orking volu nteer
contributions and de<lication of the Plant Canada 2011 meeting organizing comm·n ee . (Steering Commi ttee- Yousef
Papadopoulos: Conference Co-chair and Chair of the Stee ring Committee · David Percoval: Conference Co-chair . M arilyn
Roberts: Admini str ative Assistant, Plant and Ammal Sciences, N -AC, Paul Hildebrand and Gordon Braur.: canadian
Phytopathologi cal Society (CPS), Hugues Massicotte and Mari an Munro: Canadian Botanical Associ ation (CBA), Bill
Thomas and Prithiviraj Balakrishnan: Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA), Jean·P'erre Prive and Samir Oebnath:
Canadian Society of Horticultural Science (CSHS), Kevin Vessey, Bill Plaxton and Zhongmin Dong: Canadian Society of
Plant Btologosts (CSPB): David Clements: Canadian Weed S.c ence Society (CWSS), Shahrokh Khanizadeh and Carol
Pet erson: Plant Canada (PC), Vasantha Rupasinghe: Canad ian Inst itute of Food Sci ence & Technology (CIFST) Atlant ic
Section, Zhongmln Dong: Local Arrangements - Saint M ary's University]lead by Or. Youse! Papadopoulos, w ho put
tosether a great m eeting. Its success w ould not have been possible without t he above-named individuals accepting
these extra tasks in their already very busy schedules. Plant Canada cannot th ank t hem enough for t heir cont ributions.

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