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PLANT CANADA 2024

LACAPB at Plant Canada 2024
Winnipeg, MB

PLENARY 1 • PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR A CHANGING WORLD

Monday July 8, Hall C East, 8:30–11:00

- 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

WORKSHOP – A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE GENE EDITING LANDSCAPE IN CANADA

Tuesday July 9, 11:15–13:00, Presentation Theatre

- Moderator: Dominique Michaud (Université Laval)
- Panelists: Stacy Singer (AAFC), Hannah Clouthier (CFIA), Jennifer Hubert (CropLife
Canada), Steve Webb (GIFS), Pankaj Bhowmik (NRC)

CAPB / PLANT CANADA BUSINESS MEETINGS

- CAPB Executive Outgoing Board meeting – Sunday July 7, 15:30–17:00, President’s Boardroom
- CAPB Annual General Meeting – Monday July 8, 11:15–13:00, Room 2G
- CAPB Award Deliberations – Wednesday July 10, 11:30–12:30, York 2-3

- CAPB Student Presentation Awards – Wednesday July 10, 12:30–13-30, York 2-3
- Plant Canada Outgoing Board, Sunday July 7, 13:00–15:00, Meeting Room 16
- Plant Canada Incoming Board, Wednesday July 10, 17:30–18:30, President’s Boardroom

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