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PLANT CANADA 2019

At Plant Canada 2019:

As host society for Plant Canada 2019, CSPB-SCBV has been responsible for chairing
the Scientific Program, Local Arrangements, and Fundraising Committees. Our
student and post-doctoral representative, Dr. Ryan Eng, has organized the two
careers workshops, which will run from 11:15 to 12:15 on Monday and Tuesday. The
CSPB/SCBV Annual Business Meeting will be held on Wednesday at 11:15, at which
we will announce our Presidents Awards. Our Society Social event will be held from 7
to 9 pm on Monday in the Bullring, and, along will other participating societies and
associations, we are supporting the student social event, also on Monday evening.
Two of our 2018 Awardees feature in the plenary talks; our C.D. Nelson Award winner
Jaswinder Singh (McGill) will speak in the Tuesday morning session, while our Society
Medal winner Bill Plaxton (Queen’s) gives the final plenary lecture of the meeting on
Wednesday afternoon. We will announce our 2019 major award winners at Sunday
evening’s awards ceremony.

For more information, please visit http://cspb-scbv.ca/

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