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                                                                            Start   Abst     Monday  July  5                  Start              Tuesday July 6                   Start   Abst    Wednesday July 7
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                                                                           10:00     Introduction to the  day  and invited keynote    3-5  10:00  Introduction to the  day  and invited keynote    3-5  10:00  Introduction to the  day  and invited keynote
                                                                                     speaker                                            speaker                                            speakers
                                                                           10:05  1  Session    1. Charles Brummer:  Crop improvement  for    25  10:05  29  Session    6. Sean  Walkowiack:  Genomics:  Changing   25  10:05  61   Session 11. Bernard Glick:  Soil  bacteria and plant
                                                                                     an uncertain future.                               how  we improve crops.                             growth.
                                                                           10:30             Live  QA1  on Zoom      10       10:30              Live  QA6  on Zoom      10      10:30             Live  QA11  on Zoom
                                                                                     Session 2. Student oral competition: Genetics,     Student  oral  competition:  Genomic  Applications    10:40  62  Session 12. Carolee Bull:  The second century    of
                                                                                     Biotechnology,  and Breeding                       for  Crop Improvement                              phytobiome research.
                                                                                     1 Chanditha,  Jagoda Arachchige -  Genome-wide association study    of  1 Christopher  Manchur Bye-bye fungicides,  hello RNAi:  Understanding
                                                                                                                                                    -
                                                                           10:40  2  soybean germplasm  derived from  Canadian x  Chinese crosses  to mine for    12  10:40  30  the uptake of  RNAi-based controls  and application of  RNAi  in controlling   12  11:05  Live  QA12  on Zoom
                                                                                     unique seed-yield alleles                          obligate biotrophic  oomycetes
                                                                                     2 Longfei  Wu -  Identification of  quantitative  trait  loci  associated with   2 Erika Dort    - Improving biosurveillance in the genomics  era:  using    Session 13.  Student  oral  competition:  Plant  and
                                                                           10:52  3  partial  resistance to Fusarium  root  rot  and wilt  caused by  Fusarium    12  10:52  31  large-scale genome comparisons  with machine learning to predict    12  Soil Health, and the Microbiome
                                                                                     graminearum  in field pea                          fungal  phytopathogenic  lifestyles
                                                                                                                                        3 Jonathan Reich -  Comparison of  qPCR,  Illumina amplicon sequencing,
                                                                           11:04  4  3 Momna Farzand -  QTL mapping for  adult  plant  resistance to stripe   12  11:04  32  and Oxford Nanopore MinION  sequencing for  the detection and   12  11:15  63  1 Arshani  Alukumbura -  Does  application of  Trichoderma gamsii  T6085
                                                                                     rust    in an  AAC  Cameron/P2711  spring  wheat  population  quantification of  airborne plant  pathogens  for  control    of Fusarium  head blight  alter  the microbiome of  wheat?
                                                                           11:16  5  4 Sherry  Sun -  Delineating the SAR  pathway  in common hexaploid   12  11:16  33  4 Mackenzie Hladun -  Continuing the  vital  search  for  Fusarium  head   12  11:27  64  2 Edward McNab -  Creeping bentgrass  microbiome:  traditional  culturing
                                                                                     wheat                                              blight  resistance                                 and sequencing results  compared to metagenomic  techniques.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   -
                                                                           11:28  6  5 Varinder  Sidhu -  Interactions  between light  quality  and plant  hormones    12  11:28  34  5 Cunchun Yang -  The regulation of  intrinsic  signaling in Brassica napus     12  11:39  65  3 Harini  Aiyer Cover  crops  differentially  affect  root  disease
                                                                                     signaling to control  flower  bud induction    in day-neutral  strawberry.  defending against  Leptosphaeria maculans    susceptibility  by  changing the soil  microbiome
                                                                                     6 Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi    - Using Hyperspectral  Wide                                        4 Ibraheem  Olamide Olasupo -  Impacts    of ditch-buried garlic  straw  fortified
                                                                                                                                               Genetic
                                                                                                                                                  responses
                                                                           11:40  7  Association Study  (HWAS)  and Machine Learning-Mediated Genome Wide   12  11:40  35  6 Hu Wang -  to long-term  grazing     of alfalfa  (Medicago  sativa  L.)    12  11:51  66  with chemical  fertilizer  on soil  microbial  biomass,  bacterial  community  and
                                                                                             (GWAS)
                                                                                     Association Study
                                                                                                                                        populations

                                                                                                for
                                                                                                  Identifying Yield QTL in Soybean from
                                                                                     Reflectance Bands  and Yield Component  Traits                                                        yield of  a tunnel-grown chili

                                                                                                                                                                                                     -
                                                                           11:52  8  7 Amanda Seto -  Unravelling RNA  helicases  in Ustilago maydis and   12  11:52  36  7 Claudia Escobar-Gil    - Transcriptomic  profiling of  the host-pathogen   12  12:03  67  5 A.C.  GAHAGAN How  oomycete community  structure responds  to
                                                                                     their  role during teliospore dormancy  and germination  interaction in tan spot    of wheat          crop rotation and tillage
                                                                           12:04             Live  QA2  on Zoom      21       12:04             Live QA7 on Zoom         21      12:15  68  6 Louis-Olivier  Larouche -  Identification of  exotic  forest  pests  by
                                                                                                                                                                                           metabarcoding from
                                                                                                                                                                                                    a unique trap
          Concurrent sessions that begin after the first networking
                                                                           12:25               Networking            30       12:25                Networking            30      12:27  69  7 Palaniappan Ramanathan -  Characterization of  wireworm  populations
                                                                                                                                                                                           in the floodplains
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Saint-Pierre.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     of Lac
          Start times   Abst no   Session 5. Genetics, biotechnology, and breeding   Session 3. Student oral competition: Genetics,     Session 8.  Student  oral  competition:  Plant  and
                                                                                     Biotechnology,  and Breeding                       Soil Health                              12:39            Live QA13 on Zoom
            12:55     21    Maya Subedi ­ Genetic stability analysis of stem solidness and grain yield in spring wheat   12
                                                                                              Natural
                                                                                                                                              -
                                                                           12:55  9  1 Monique Lariviere -  maydis   antisense transcripts  and stress    12  12:55  37  1 Ji  Cui Comparison of  inoculation techniques  for  Verticillium    12  1:00  Networking
                                                                                                                                        longisporum
                                                                                     response in Ustilago
                                                                                                                                               on canola
                      22    Mohammad Sayari ­ Role of NOX genes in Verticillium dahliae pathogenicity          12
                                                                                                    come to those who bait:
                                                                                                -
                                                                            1:07  10  2 Matthew  Wengler Good things  targets     using fungal    12  1:07  38  2 Kyle Biscaglia-Horvath -  Disease  Dynamics    of Root  Rot  Complex  in   12  1:00  Session 14. Student activity - Carolee Bull: How to
                                                                                                                                        Field Pea
                                                                                         proteins
                                                                                            to identify
                                                                                                 host
                                                                                     effector
                      23    Zhongwei Zou ­ Functional characterisation of minor genes of Brassica napus in response to blackleg disease   12                                               write a research  statement  and  cover  letter
                                                                                     3 Rasanie Padmathilake -  Does  trophic  switch of  Leptosphaeria
                                                                            1:19  11  maculans   happen under  both incompatible and compatible interactions    12  1:19  39  3 Claudio Ignacio Fernandez    - Cucumber  powdery  mildew  detection   12  Session 14.  Student  oral  competition:  Plant  and
                      24    Jyoti Saini Sharma ­ Characterizing The Common Wheat Accession KU168­2 For The Stem Rust Resistance   12    using non-georeferenced multispectral  images      Soil Health
                                                                                     with canola (Brassica napus )?
                                                                                                                                                                   of landscape
                                                                                                                                                      Understanding the effects
                                                                                                - IdentifiIdentification and characterization of
                                                                                     4 Venessa Clemis
                                                                            1:31
                                                                                 12
                                                                                                                                        structure on the abundance of
                            Mamadou Lamine Fall ­ Temporal dynamics of the virome composition and transcriptional response of three grapevine    novel    12  1:31  40  4 Piratheepa Jegatheeswaran -  cabbage seedpod weevil  and lygus  bugs,    12  2:00  70  1 Andrea Botero-Ramirez    - Effect    of clubroot  (Plasmodiophora
                                                                                                                                                                                                 ) on
                                                                                                                                                                                                  yield
                                                                                                    in flax
                                                                                         mildew
                                                                                                                                                                                                      of canola
                                                                                                                                                                                                        (Brassica napus )
                                                                                     powdery
                                                                                            resistance genes
                                                                                                                                                                                           brassicae
                      25                                                                                       12                       and associated crop damage
                            cultivars
                                                                                                                                                   -
                                                                                                  -
                                                                            1:43  13  5 J.  Duncan Giebelhaus Gibberellin regulation of  protein  accumulation   12  1:43  41  5   Jessica Prosser Role of  Tomato ringspot  virus  in Tree Fruit  Decline   12  2:12  71  2 Emilee Storfie -  Fungal  pathogen emergence:  an Ustilago maydis    x
                                                                                                     seeds
                                                                                                    L.)
                                                                                     in developing pea (Pisum
                                                                                                sativum
                            Shuanglong Huang ­ A deep dive into the game of hide and seek in the Brassica napus­Leptosphaeria maculans pathosys­  in the Niagara Region.                   Sporisorium  reilianum  model
                                                                                                               12
                      26    tem: combined transcriptome and proteome analysis        6 Heather  Tso -    A single base extension assay   for   pathotyping clubroot    6 Kenneth Eteme Anku    - Potential  use of  vegetative indices  to detect    3 Gursahib Singh -  The chemotypes  3ADON,  15ADON,  NIV,  and NX-2
                                                                            1:55
                                                                                 14
                                                                                     [Plasmodiophora brassicae ]    of canola  12  1:55  42  and estimate disease severities    of Monilinia  and Botrytis   blight  on wild   12  2:24  72  of  Fusarium  graminearum  vary  in aggressiveness  on wheat.
                                                                                                                                             fields
                                                                                                                                        blueberry
                      27    Leonardo Miguel Galindo González ­ Using molecular biolog y and omics to manage clubroot of canola   12                                                        4 Allison Bailey    - Impact    of long-term  nitrogen fertilization on soil  organic
                                                                            2:07             Live  QA3  on Zoom      18       2:07   43  7 Sanjib Sapkota -  Metalaxyl  sensitivity    of Phytophthora spp.    12  2:36  73  carbon,  total  soil  nitrogen and future production in continuous  corn (Zea
                                                                                                                                                      in British Columbia
                                                                                                                                        associated with red raspberry
                            Nick Wytinck ­ Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis is Involved in the Uptake of Exogenous double­stranded RNA in the White Mold                                      mays L.) in Ontario
                      28    Phytopathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum                   Session 4.  Student  oral  competition:  Innovations                                                  5 Anuradha Jayathissa -  Fusarium  graminearum  infection of  differentially
                                                                                                               12
                                                                                     for  Pre-  and  Post-harvest  Quality    2:19               Live  QA8  on Zoom      21       2:48  74  resistant  barley  cultivars  reflect  growth and deoxynivalenol  production
                                                                                                                                                                                           during malting
                                                                                                            vitians 24
             2:31                                             Live QA5 on Zoom   2:25  15  1 Amadou Sidibé -  Preharvest  UV  treatment  a potential  ecological       12  Session    9. Student  poster  flash-talks:  Genetics,    3:00  75  6 Kerin Hudson -  Pathogenicity    of Fusarium  graminearum  and F.  poae
                                                                                                      campestris
                                                                                     approach for
                                                                                                           pv.
                                                                                           the control
                                                                                                 of Xanthomonas
                                                                                                               induces
                                                                                     key  genes  associated with homeostasis,  growth,  and defense in lettuce  Biotechnology,  and  Breeding  Causing Fusarium  Head Blight  on Barley  Under  Controlled Conditions
                                                                                     2 Karthika  Sriskantharajah -  Pre-harvest  spray  hexanal  enhances  the                             7 Sachithrani  Kannangara -  Fusarium  Head Blight  species  diversity  and
                                                                            2:37  16  post-harvest  quality    of Honeycris   apples  by  regulating  membrane   12  2:40  44  1 Bohan Wei    - Novel  mutations       in the  CYP51 gene in a global  collection   5  3:12  76  deoxynivalenol  (DON)  levels  in Western Canadian producer   wheat
                                                                                                                                          Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (tan
                                                                                                                                        of
                                                                                                                                                            of wheat)
                                                                                                                                                        spot
                                                                                     degradation-associated genes.                                                                         fields
                                                                                     3 Victoria Rodriguez  Morrison -  Cannabis  inflorescence yield and    2 James  Tucker Modern breeding strategies  assist  development    of
                                                                                                                                                  -
                                                                            2:49  17  cannabinoid concentration are not  improved with long-term  exposure to   12  2:45  45  disease-resistant,  two-row  malting barley  adapted for  production in   5  3:24  77  8 Keisha Hollman -  The virulence of  Plasmodiophora brassicae  on
                                                                                                                                                                                                       clubroot
                                                                                                                                                                                                           resistance
                                                                                                                                                                                           canola with '2nd generation'

                                                                                     UV  radiation                                      western Canada.
                                                                                     4 Portiaa McGonigal    - Compost  amendments  affect  plant  performance
                                                                            3:01  18  and crop quality  without  affecting disease severity  in a long-established   12  2:50  46  3 Kallum  McDonald -  Creating a Genetic  Screening  Platform  from    5  3:36  Live  QA14  on Zoom
                                                                                                                                        Arabidopsis
                                                                                                                                                Breeding Canola with Increased Seed Protein.
                                                                                                                                              for

                                                                                     crown gall-diseased vineyard
                                                                                     5 Niluni  Wijesundara -  Can herbal  essential  oils  use to  treat  strep   4 Sachithrani  Kannangara -  CRISPER/Cas9 mediated gene editing to
                                                                            3:13  19  throat?:  antibacterial  activity    of carvacrol  against  Streptococcus    12  2:55  47  create a Leptosphaeria maculans  isolate carrying a single avirulent    5  3:56  Networking
                                                                                     pyogenes                                           gene -  AvrLepR1
                                                                                     6 Tharindu Lakshan Suraweera -  Plant-Derived Dietary  Flavonoids    5 Arindam  Sikdar Genomic  methylation levels  appear  adverse  effect
                                                                                                                                                   -
                                                                            3:25  20  Protect  Cultured Human Lung Epithelial  Cells  from  Chemical-induced   12  3:00  48  on total  phenolic  content  between in vitro and greenhouse grown   5
                                                                                     DNA  Damage.                                       lingonberry  (Vaccinium  vitis-idaea )
                                                                            3:37             Live  QA4  on Zoom      18       3:05   49  6 Rasanie Padmathilake -    Is less  virulent  Leptosphaeria biglobosa   5
                                                                                                                                        robust  enough to  protect  canola  from  highly  virulent    L. maculans?
                                                                                                                                        7 Daniel  Gladish -  Evaluation of  plant-pollinator  ecosystem  health and
                                                                            3:55               Networking            60       3:10   50  rapid detection of  plant  and bee pathogens  by  high-throughput    5
                                                                                                                                        sequencing of  European honey  bee (Apis  mellifera)
                                                                                                                              3:15   51  8 George Austin -  Determining resistance of  asparagus  (Asparagus    5
                                                                                                                                        officinalis  L.) cultivars to  Stemphylium  vesicarium
                                                                                                                   / 5        3:20   52  9 Cindy  Yu -  Polyphenols-rich apples  exhibit  anti-diabetic  properties  in   5
                                                                                                                                        vitro.
                                                                                                                              3:25               Live  QA9  on Zoom      27
                                                                                                                              3:52                 Networking            60
                                                                                                                                            Student activity - 3 minute talks  60
                                                                                     Concurrent  sessions that  begin  after  the first  networking
                                                                            Start   Abst    Session 5.  Genetics,  biotechnology,  and breeding  Start   Abst  no  Session  10.  Pathogen  Challenges and  Genomic   Start   Abst    Session 15. Plant and Soil health
                                                                           times  no                                          times     Applications                             times  no
                                                                           12:55  21  1 Maya Subedi    - Genetic  stability  analysis    of stem  solidness  and grain   12  12:55  53  1 Thomas  Jeanne -  Use of  high throughput  sequencing for  the   12  2:00  78  1 Malinda Thilakarathna -  Trends  in symbiotic  nitrogen fixation over  100
                                                                                     yield in spring wheat                              identification of  plant  pathogens                years    of soybean breeding
                                                                                                                                                                                                     -
                                                                            1:07  22  2 Mohammad Sayari    - Role of  NOX  genes  in Verticillium  dahliae    12  1:07  54  2 Melanie Kalischuk    - Molecular  diagnostics  for  bronze leaf  disease   12  2:12  79  2 Jennifer  Owens Altering nitrogen management  to improve winter
                                                                                     pathogenicity                                      affecting Canadian poplar  and aspen  trees        wheat  yields  and nitrogen efficiency  in the Northern Great  Plains
                                                                                                                                        3 Miao Liu -  The 168-year  taxonomy    of Claviceps  in the light    of
                                                                            1:19  23  3 Zhongwei  Zou -  Functional  characterisation of  minor  genes    of  12  1:19  55  variations:  From  three morphological  species  to four  sections  based on   12  2:24  80  3 Mumtaz  Cheema -  Effect    of wood ash,  sludge,  and biochar  on  heavy
                                                                                     Brassica napus  in response to blackleg disease                                                       metals  mobility  in plant-soil  system    of annual  ryegrass  and kale
                                                                                                                                        multigene phylogenies
                                                                                                                                        4 Lone Buchwaldt    - Characterization of  genomic  and pathogenic    4 Dahu Chen -  Effect    of biofumigation and fumigation on population
                                                                            1:31  24  4 Jyoti  Saini  Sharma -  Characterizing The Common Wheat  Accession   12  1:31  56  diversity    in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum  population needed for  development    12  2:36  81  density    of root-lesion nematodes,  Verticillium  dahliae and potato yield in
                                                                                     KU168-2 For  The Stem  Rust  Resistance
                                                                                                                                        of  resistant  canola                              New Brunswick
                                                                            1:43  25  5 Mamadou Lamine Fall    - Temporal  dynamics    of the virome   12  1:43  57  5 Maria Antonia Henriquez     - Physiological  and RNASeq analysis    of the   12  2:48  82  5 Muhammad Nadeem    - Potential  role of  root  neutral  lipids  in mediating
                                                                                     composition and transcriptional  response of  three grapevine cultivars  wheat  cultivar  AAC  Tenacious  under    F. graminearum infection  forage soybean acclimation to cultivation on acidic  soil  in boreal  climate

                                                                                     6 Shuanglong Huang -    A deep dive into the game of  hide and seek  in the
                                                                                                                                                -
                                                                                                                                                               as
                                                                                                                                                            grains
                                                                            1:55  26  Brassica napus-Leptosphaeria maculans  pathosystem:  combined   12  1:55  58  6Naz  Islam Levels    of mycotoxins  in barley  Canada from  infected by    12  3:00  83  6 Gurbir  Singh Dhillon -  Adapting precision planters  for  pulse crop
                                                                                                                                        Fusarium
                                                                                                                                                                 2017 to 2020
                                                                                                                                             head blight
                                                                                                                                                      in Manitoba,
                                                                                                                                                  species
                                                                                                                                                                                           production in southern Alberta
                                                                                     transcriptome and proteome analysis
                                                                                                                                                      -
                                                                            2:07  27  7 Leonardo Galindo-González    - Using molecular  biology  and omics  to   12  2:07  59  7 Holly  Bartholomew A double agent:  The mycotoxin patulin  serves    12  3:12  84  7Jiangying Tu -  Cell-wall  reinforcement  contributes  to clubroot
                                                                                     manage clubroot    of canola                       multiple roles  during host-fungal-nonhost  interactions  resistance
                                                                                     8 Mark  Belmonte -  Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis    is Involved in the Uptake   8 Huimin Xu -  Modernization of  Canadian Potato Post  Entry  Quarantine
                                                                            2:19  28  of  Exogenous  double-stranded RNA  in the White Mold Phytopathogen   12  2:19  60  program  by  introducing molecular  and genomic  diagnostic  methods  for    12  3:24  85  8 Lawrence Kawchuk    - Elimination of  zebra  chip in  Canada
                                                                                     Sclerotinia sclerotiorum                           detecting    virus  and viroid pathogens  in imported potato germplasm
                                                                            2:31             Live  QA5  on Zoom      24       2:31               Live  QA10  on Zoom     24       3:36             Live  QA15  on Zoom
                                                                                          Total  minutes  without  second  networking  350                               347
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