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PLANT CANADA 2024

At Plant Canada 2024

Our student and post-doctoral representatives, Dr. Mark Minow and Sean Ritter, have organized
a workshop on “Survival in the jungle of scholarly publishing: Building authorship and peer
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review skills” to demystify the world of scholarly publishing. It is scheduled on July 7 , 2024,
from 12:00-2:00 PM in Meeting Room 17. Our CSPB-SCBV executive committee members
Drs. Miranda Meents, David Bird, Lauren Erland, along with Drs. Robin Young and Solmaz
Irani, are organizing a workshop on “Developing a Community of Practice for Plant Biology
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Teaching,” scheduled for July 8 , 2024, from 11:15 AM-1:00 PM. The workshop will help build
an online community to provide new ideas for teaching and lay the foundation to develop new
resources and connections that make your creative ideas a reality. CSPB-SCBV is also
organizing 14 concurrent sessions with several of them as joint sessions with other societies on
various themes, providing the opportunity for a highly diverse group of exceptional researchers
to showcase their work.

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The CSPB-SCBV Annual Business Meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 10 at 11:15 AM,
during which we will announce our Presidents Awards and all our 2024 major award winners.
Our Society Social event will be held from 7-9 PM on Monday in the Pan Am room; we will also
be joining the other participating societies and associations in the multi-society social event on
Monday evening. Two of our 2023-24 Awardees feature in the plenary talks: our 2023 C.D.
Nelson Award winner Gavin Chen and our 2024 Carl Douglas Prize winner Dr. Mark Minow will
deliver their seminars as the two final plenary speakers on Wednesday, July 10th. For more
information, please visit http://cspb-scbv.ca/

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