Page 56 - Plant Canada 2024 Proceeding

PLANT CANADA 2024

SCHEDULE OF PLENARY SPEAKERS

th
th
th
Time Monday July 8 Tuesday July 9 Wednesday July 10
Place Hall C East Hall C East Hall C East
8:00 am Coffee break in Hall D Coffee break in Hall D Coffee break in Hall D
Session #1 Plant Biotechnology for a #2 Emerging Technologies #3 Emerging Technologies in
Changing World to Enhance Production in a Plant Health
Changing Environment
Chair(s) Dr. Dominique Michaud Dr. Harpinder Randhawa and Dr. Bourlaye Fofana
Dr. Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill
8:30 am Dr. Louis-Philippe Hamel Dr. Matthew Reynolds Dr. Jan Leach
Medicago Inc. CIMMYT, Mexico University of Alberta, AB

Understanding plant molecular Crop Physiology, Genomics Intergenic spaces: A new frontier to
responses to the production of and Cropping Systems improving plant health
enveloped VLPs leads to the
improvement of a molecular
farming expression platform
9:20 am Dr. Dan Voytas Dr. Eric Patterson Dr. Martina Strömvik
University of Minnesota, MN Michigan State University, MI McGill University, QC

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Building weed genomics The Petota super-pangenome and
Gene Editing resources through potato wild relatives
international collaboration and
exciting new discoveries from
the genomics frontier
10:10 am Dr. Nicola Patron Dr. Sara Martin Dr. Brent McCallum
University of Cambridge, UK AAFC Ottawa, ON AAFC Morden, MB

Synthetic biology for metabolic Changing Environment, Combating a Dynamic Wheat Rust
pathway engineering in Changing Genes: Insights Population in Canada
photosynthetic organisms from Weed Genetics and
Genomics
11 am Lunch in Hall C West Lunch in Hall C West Lunch in Hall C West
Session #4 Understanding and Exploiting
Cell Wall Biosynthesis
Chair(s) Dr. Marcus Samuel and
Dr. Hugo Zheng
1:30 pm Dr. Lacey Samuels
University of British Columbia, BC

Building plant biomass: secondary
cell wall biosynthesis
2:20 pm Dr. Heather McFarlane
University of Toronto, ON

Modifying the plant cell wall from the
inside out
3:10 pm Coffee break in Carlton Concourse
3:40 pm Dr. Guanqun (Gavin) Chen
University of Alberta
C.D. Nelson Award talk:
Producing Specialty Oil with
Unusual Fatty Acids for Sustainable
Growth in Agriculture and
Fermentation
4:15 pm Dr. Mark Minow
University of Georgia, GA
Carl Douglas Award talk:
The heritability of chromatin
accessibility in Zea mays

55