Joint CSPB Western Regional Meeting and UVic Forest Biology Symposium 2023 Scientific Program
Symposium/Meeting held in the Bob Wright Centre at the University of Victoria
Full text of Talk and Poster Abstracts
Monday, May 1
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9:30-9:45 |
Welcome |
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9:45-10:10 |
Feature speaker Lauren Erland Univ of the Fraser Valley |
Resilience in nutritional quality of traditional staple crops to climate change |
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10:10-10:25 |
Sarah Lane Univ of Victoria |
Response of poplar, lavender, and western redcedar roots to iron deficiency stress |
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10:25-10:40 |
Miriam Fenniri UBC |
Postharvest quality and evolution of metabolites in wild berries of British Columbia |
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10:40-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-11:15 |
Shakshi Dutt Univ of Calgary |
Assessing overexpression of SOS1 from Brassica napus and Bassia scoparia on their ability to confer salt tolerance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Brassica napus |
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11:15-11:30 |
Nathan Lauer Univ of Victoria |
Linking whole-plant responses to cell physiology in glycophytes exposed to NaCl stress. |
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11:30-11:45 |
Udaya Subedi Univ of Alberta |
Enhanced Drought Tolerance in Alfalfa: Morphological, Physiological, and Transcriptional Assessments of MsTAC1 Down-Regulated Genotypes |
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11:45-12:00 |
Lise Nehring Univ of Victoria |
Assessing the contribution of Red Alder (Alnus rubra) to forest stand nitrogen budgets |
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12:00-1:10 |
Lunch |
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1:10-1:35 |
Feature speaker Keith Adams UBC |
Subgenome-dominant expression and alternative splicing in response to Sclerotinia infection in polyploid Brassica napus and progenitors |
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1:35-1:50 |
Paul de la Bastide Univ of Victoria |
Fungal endophytes and insect herbivores affecting the health and recovery of Long’s and Fernald’s Braya, endangered endemic species of Newfoundland |
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1:50-2:05 |
Melike Karaca Bulut UBC |
Assessing the cuticular wax composition of black cottonwood |
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2:05-2:20 |
Eerik-Mikael Piirtola Univ of Victoria |
Poplar leaf bud resin metabolomics – seasonal patterns of leaf bud resin chemistry |
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2:20-2:40 |
Break |
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2:40-2:55 |
Tal Shalev UBC |
Genomics of western redcedar: unlocking insights into genetic diversity and resilience in a key tree species |
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2:55-3:10 |
Yihan Wu UBC |
Genome-wide identification and analyses of copy number variants in 778 Populus trichocarpa individuals from natural populations |
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3:10-3:25 |
Philippa Stone UBC |
Patterns of plastid genome evolution across parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants |
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3:25-3:40 |
Andrew Hall UBC |
Illuminating the diversity of cell-wall phenolics in six classes of moss |
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3:40-3:55 |
Ravinder Goyal Agriculture & Agri-foods Canada |
The characterization of the AP2/ERF gene family in Pisum sativum, and the expression profiles of some family members reveal their role in plant development |
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4:00-6:30 |
Poster Session & Social |
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Tuesday, May 2
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9:00-9:25 |
Feature speaker Susan Murch UBC- Okanagan |
Hormonomics: A tool to understand plant growth regulators
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9:25-9:40 |
Milad Alizadeh UBC |
A Novel Regulatory Factor of Plant Embryonic Program and Its Feedback Regulation with Seed Transcription Factors |
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9:40-9:55 |
Dongeun Go UBC |
A Network of Transcriptional Regulators During the Seed-to-Seedling Transition in Plants |
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9:55-10:10 |
Sean Ritter UBC |
TOR Story: Investigating a Role for CLASP in TOR-Regulated Growth Transitions |
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10:10-10:25 |
Cecily Costain UBC |
Cellulose Biosynthesis and COBRA – A New Antibody Shines a Light on a Previously Elusive Protein |
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10:25-10:45 |
Break |
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10:45-11:30 |
Jade Johnson Sierra Mitchell Chris White-Gloria Lana Wong Univ of Calgary |
Insights from Quantitative Phosphoproteomics: Photosynthesis to Fatty Acid Biosynthesis |
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11:30-11:45 |
Tom Booker UBC |
Local adaptation and the structure of the environment |
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11:45-12:00 |
Adam Gilewski Simon Fraser Univ |
Physiological and Transcriptomic Responses to Drought in Ponderosa Pine |
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12:00-12:15 |
Sachithrani Kannangara Simon Fraser Univ |
RNAseq-based identification of a novel virus and novel virus variants in farmed blueberry plants. |
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12:15-1:15 |
Lunch |
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1:15-1:40 |
Feature speaker Soheil Mahmoud UBC – Okanagan |
Molecular basis of flower development in Cannabis sativa |
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1:40-1:55 |
Tonya Severson UBC |
Transcriptome-wide characterization of alternative splicing in five drug-type cultivars of Cannabis sativa |
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1:55-2:10 |
Reza Sajaditabar UBC – Okanagan |
Genetic engineering of lavender glandular trichomes using trichome-specific promoters |
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2:10-2:25 |
Dylan Perera UBC |
Bioengineering of Montbretin A Production in Nicotiana benthamiana – Towards Scalable Production of a New Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Option |
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2:30-3:00 |
Wrap-up & Prizes |
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