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PLANT CANADA 2019

PROGRAM SCHEDULE OVERVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY JULY 10, 2019

8:00 am until noon Registration in the Rozanski Concourse

time POSTER VIEWING AND EXHIBITS AT PCH FROM 8:00am – 11:00 am
8:00 – 8:30 Coffee Break in concourse sponsored by BASF
Loading talks Plenary Session 3-Managing Plant Disease in Horticulture Rozanski room 104
at 8am Chairs: Lone Buchwaldt (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) and Valerie Gravel (McGill University)
Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald, University of Guelph, ON
8:30 – 9:20
Billions, trillions and quadrillions: The challenge of managing clubroot on canola and
PS7
vegetables
Dr. Richard Bélanger, Université Laval, Québec, QC
9:20 – 10:10
PS8 A unique interaction with a biocontrol agent alters the parasitic activity of powdery
mildews on plants
10:10 – 11:00 Dr. Diane G.O. Saunders, John Innes Centre, UK
PS9 The wheat-rust conflict: Shifty enemies and the long reach of genomics
Before Please pick-up posters @ Peter Clark Hall
Noon

11:00 - 1:30 LUNCH at Creelman Hall 11:00 am – 1:30 pm / loading talks 1:00-1:30pm

11:15 – 1:15 CSHS Annual Business Meeting Rozanski r. 106 - lunch tickets
11:15 – 1:30 CSPB Annual Business Meeting Rozanski r. 103 - lunch tickets
11:30 – 1:30 CBA Annual General Meeting and Awards Rozanski r. 102 - lunch tickets
11:30 – 1:00 CSA Annual General Meeting and Awards Rozanski r. 104 - lunch tickets

11:30 – 12:30 CAPB Award Deliberations Rozanski r. 105 - lunch tickets
12:30 – 1:30 CAPB Student Presentation Awards Rozanski r. 105
5:30 – 6:30 Plant Canada Incoming Board Rozanski r. 106
Loading talks Plenary Session 4-Root Evolution, Development and Function Rozanski room 104
at 1pm Chair: Geoffrey Wasteneys (University of British Columbia)
1:30- 2:20 Dr. Liam Dolan, University of Oxford, UK
PS10 Evolution and development of the earliest land plant rooting systems
2:20 – 3:10 Dr. Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, CA
PS11 Regulation of root development – a systems biology perspective
3:10 – 3:40 Coffee Break in concourse sponsored by Regent Instruments Inc
Dr. William Plaxton, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
3:40 – 4:30
PS12 Feeding hungry plants: purple acid phosphatases play a pivotal role in phosphorous
nutrition
4:30 – 5:00pm AWARDS CEREMONY and CLOSING REMARKS
7:00 – 11:00pm ALL SOCIETY FINAL BANQUET DINNER AND STARPOWER ENTERTAINMENT

* Panel disc. A Panel discussion will follow in the same room after all speakers’ have completed their
presentations.

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