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PLANT CANADA 2024

PROGRAM SCHEDULE OVERVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY JULY 10, 2024
8:00 am until 1:00pm Registration in the Carlton Concourse

Time POSTER VIEWING and EXHIBITS in Hall D from 8:00 am – 11:00 am
8:00 – 8:30 Coffee Break in Hall D sponsored by Alberta Grains
Loading Plenary Session 3-Emerging Technologies in Plant Health Hall C East
talks at Chairs: Bourlaye Fofana (AAFC, Charlettetown)
8am
Dr. Jan Leach, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
8:30 – 9:20
PS7 Intergenic spaces: A new frontier to improving plant health
Dr. Martina Stromvik, McGill University
9:20 – 10:10
PS8 The Petota super-pangenome and potato wild relatives
10:10 – 11:00 Dr. Brent McCallum, AAFC Morden, MB
PS9 Combating a Dynamic Wheat Rust Population in Canada

11:00 - 1:00 LUNCH in Hall C West / loading talks 1:00-1:30pm

1:00-4:00 Please take down Posters and Exhibits in Hall D
11:15 – 1:15 CSHS Annual Business Meeting Pan Am Room
11:15 – 1:30 CSPB Annual Business Meeting Millennium Suite

11:30 – 1:30 CBA Annual General Meeting and Awards Room 2F
11:30 – 1:00 CSA Annual General Meeting and Awards Room 2E
11:30 – 12:30 CAPB Award Deliberations York 2-3
12:30 – 1:30 CAPB Student Presentation Awards York 2-3

Loading Plenary Session 4- Understanding and exploiting cell wall biosynthesis
talks at and signaling to promote sustainability Hall C East
1pm
Chairs: Marcus Samuel and Hugo Zheng
1:30- 2:20 Dr. Lacey Samuels, University of British Columbia
PS10 Building plant biomass: secondary cell wall biosynthesis
2:20 – 3:10 Dr. Heather McFarlane, University of Toronto
PS11 Modifying the plant cell wall from the inside out

3:10 – 3:40 Coffee Break in Carlton Concourse sponsored by Dept of Biology, Univ of Winnipeg
C.D. Nelson Award talk - Dr. Guanqun Chen, University of Alberta
3:40 – 4:15
PS12 Producing Specialty Oil with Unusual Fatty Acids for Sustainable Growth in
Agriculture and Fermentation
Carl Douglas Award talk - Dr. Mark Minow
4:15 - 4:45
The heritability of chromatin accessibility in Zea mays
PS13
4:45 – 5:15 AWARDS CEREMONY and CLOSING REMARKS Hall C East
5:30 – 6:30 Plant Canada Incoming Board President’s Boardroom
6:00 – 11:00 ALL SOCIETY FINAL COCKTAIL RECEPTION & BANQUET - FEATURING CHRIS FUNK York 1

PROGRAM SCHEDULE OVERVIEW FOR THURSDAY JULY 11, 2024
8:30 – 11:00 CPS Incoming Board meeting in MR 17

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