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 Scientific Program Schedule Friday, July 9                                The start times are only guidelines as not all pre-recorded videos will be the exact length indicated
                                                                            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
                            Session 25. Student poster flash­talks: Plant Health and Resilience   an uncertain future.                  how  we improve crops.                             growth.
                                                                                                 QA1
                                                                           10:30
                                                                                             Live
                                                                                                    on Zoom
             2:50     132   Awa Barro ­ In vitro screening of different forest tree species residues for their antifungal/antibacterial activity against strawbe­  5   10  10:30  Live  QA6  on Zoom  10  10:30  Live  QA11  on Zoom
                            rry pathogens 
                                                                                     Session 2. Student oral competition: Genetics,     Student  oral  competition:  Genomic  Applications    10:40  62  Session 12. Carolee Bull:  The second century    of
                      133   Chunxiao Yang ­ Effect of Brassica napus seedling age at time of inoculation on fusarium wilt se verity    and Breeding  5   for  Crop Improvement             phytobiome research.
                                                                                     Biotechnology,
                                                                                     1 Chanditha,  Jagoda Arachchige -  Genome-wide association study    of  1 Christopher  Manchur Bye-bye fungicides,  hello RNAi:  Understanding
                                                                                                                                                    -
                                                                                  2
                                                                           10:40
                                                                                                               5
                      134   Fang (Amy) Shi ­ The effect of plant age on the susceptibility of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) to replant disease    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
                                                                                     soybean germplasm
                                                                                                        Chinese crosses
                                                                                                   Canadian x
                                                                                              derived from
                                                                                     unique seed-yield alleles                          obligate biotrophic  oomycetes
                            Devdutt Kamath ­ Seed germination responses to low­intensity monochromatic light spectra for 14 ornamental plant geno­  associated with   2 Erika Dort    - Improving biosurveillance in the genomics  era:  using    Session 13.  Student  oral  competition:  Plant  and
                                                                                            Identification of
                                                                                                       trait
                                                                                                  quantitative
                                                                                     2 Longfei
                                                                                         Wu -
                                                                                                         loci
                      135   types                                          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
                                                                                                               5
                                                                                                                                            phytopathogenic
                                                                                                                                                   lifestyles
                                                                                           in field pea
                                                                                     graminearum
                                                                                                                                        fungal
                            Mathieu Bouchard­Rochette ­ Efficacy of Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus subtilis to control gray mold on tomato and cucumber   12  11:04  32  3 Jonathan Reich -  Comparison of  qPCR,  Illumina amplicon sequencing,    12  11:15  63  1 Arshani  Alukumbura -  Does  application of  Trichoderma gamsii  T6085
                                                                                                        plant
                                                                                                     adult
                                                                                     3 Momna Farzand -
                                                                                              QTL mapping for
                                                                                                          resistance to stripe
                                                                           11:04
                                                                                  4
                                                                                                                                                     sequencing for
                                                                                                                                        and Oxford Nanopore MinION
                                                                                                                                                            the detection and
                      136                                                            rust    in an  AAC  Cameron/P2711  spring  wheat  population  5   quantification of  airborne plant  pathogens  for  control    of Fusarium  head blight  alter  the microbiome of  wheat?
                            plants grown in greenhouse. 
                                                                                         Sun -
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 traditional
                                                                                     4 Sherry
                                                                                                        in common hexaploid
                                                                                                    pathway
                                                                                            Delineating the SAR
                                                                           11:16
                                                                                  5
                            Portiaa McGonigal ­ Screening for potential biological control agents against Allorhizobium vitis, the causal agent of crown   12  11:16  33  4 Mackenzie Hladun -  Continuing the  vital  search  for  Fusarium  head   12  11:27  64  2 Edward McNab -  Creeping bentgrass  microbiome:  techniques.  culturing
                                                                                                                                                                                           and sequencing results
                                                                                                                                           resistance
                                                                                                                                                                                                     compared to metagenomic
                                                                                                                                        blight
                                                                                     wheat
                      137                                                                                      5
                            gall disease of grapevine
                                                                                                                                                        intrinsic
                                                                                                                                                 The regulation of
                                                                                                                                                                                                   -
                                                                           11:28  6  5 Varinder  Sidhu -  Interactions  between light  quality  and plant  hormones    12  11:28  34  5 Cunchun Yang -  Leptosphaeria maculans    signaling in Brassica napus     12  11:39  65  3 Harini  Aiyer Cover  crops  differentially  affect  root  disease
                                                                                                                                                                                                 by
                                                                                                                                        defending against
                                                                                                                                                                                                          microbiome
                                                                                                            strawberry.
                                                                                     signaling to control
                                                                                                                                                                                           susceptibility
                                                                                                                                                                                                  changing the soil
                                                                                             flower
                                                                                                bud induction
                                                                                                        in day-neutral
                      138   Romaric Armel, MOUAFO­TCHINDA ­ Competition between Plasmopara viticola clade aestivalis and clade riparia: who can    Wide  5
                                                                                     6 Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi
                                                                                                      - Using Hyperspectral
                            win the aggressiveness battle                            Association Study  (HWAS)  and Machine Learning-Mediated Genome Wide   6 Hu Wang -  Genetic  responses    of alfalfa  (Medicago  sativa  L.)    4 Ibraheem  Olamide Olasupo -  Impacts    of ditch-buried garlic  straw  fortified
                                                                           11:40  7  Association Study  (GWAS)  for  Identifying Yield QTL in Soybean from    12  11:40  35  populations  to long-term  grazing   12  11:51  66  with chemical  fertilizer  on soil  microbial  biomass,  bacterial  community  and
            3:25                                             Live QA25 on Zoom       Reflectance Bands  and Yield Component  Traits    20                                                  yield of  a tunnel-grown chili
                                                                                                                                                                                                     -
                                                                                                                                                     - Transcriptomic

                                                                           11:52  8  7 Amanda Seto -  Unravelling RNA  helicases  in Ustilago maydis and   12  11:52  36  7 Claudia Escobar-Gil    of wheat   profiling of  the host-pathogen   12  12:03  67  5 A.C.  GAHAGAN How  oomycete community  structure responds  to
                                                                                     their
                                                                                                                                                                                           crop rotation and tillage
                                                                                       role during teliospore dormancy
                                                                                                                                        interaction in tan spot
                                                                                                     and germination
             3:45                                  Announcement of winners and closing remarks                 20
                                                                           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
             4:15                                               Networking                                     60
                                                                           12:25               Networking            30       12:25                Networking            30      12:27  69  7 Palaniappan Ramanathan -  Characterization of  wireworm  populations
                                                                                                                                                                                                     of Lac
                                                                                                                                                                                           in the floodplains
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Saint-Pierre.
                                                                                     Session 3. Student oral competition: Genetics,     Session 8.  Student  oral  competition:  Plant  and   12:39  Live QA13 on Zoom
                                                                                     Biotechnology,  and Breeding                       Soil Health
                                                                                                                                              -
                                                                           12:55  9  1 Monique Lariviere -  Natural  antisense transcripts  and stress    12  12:55  37  1 Ji  Cui Comparison of  inoculation techniques  for  Verticillium    12  1:00  Networking
                                                                                     response in Ustilago  maydis                       longisporum  on canola
                                                                                                -
                                                                            1:07  10  2 Matthew  Wengler Good things  come to those who bait:  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
                                                                                     effector  proteins  to identify  host  targets     Field Pea                                          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
                                                                                                                                        using non-georeferenced multispectral
                                                                                                                                                         images
                                                                                     with canola (Brassica napus )?                                                                        Soil Health
                                                                                                                                                      Understanding the effects
                                                                                                                                                                   of landscape
                                                                            1:31  12  4 Venessa Clemis     - IdentifiIdentification and characterization of  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
                                                                                                                                        structure on the abundance of
                                                                                     powdery  mildew  resistance genes  in flax                                                            brassicae    ) on  yield    of canola  (Brassica napus )
                                                                                                                                        and associated crop damage
                                                                                                                                                   -
                                                                                                  -
                                                                            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
                                                                                     in developing pea (Pisum  sativum  L.)  seeds      in the Niagara Region.                             Sporisorium  reilianum  model
                                                                                                                                        6 Kenneth Eteme Anku    - Potential  use of  vegetative indices  to detect
                                                                            1:55  14  6 Heather  Tso -    A single base extension assay   for   pathotyping clubroot    12  1:55  42  and estimate disease severities    of Monilinia  and Botrytis   blight  on wild   12  2:24  72  3 Gursahib Singh -  The chemotypes  3ADON,  15ADON,  NIV,  and NX-2
                                                                                     [Plasmodiophora brassicae ]    of canola                                                              of  Fusarium  graminearum  vary  in aggressiveness  on wheat.
                                                                                                                                        blueberry  fields
                                                                                                                                                                                           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
                                                                                                                                        associated with red raspberry  in British Columbia  mays L.) in Ontario
                                                                                                                                                                                                         graminearum
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    differentially
                                                                                                                                                                                                               infection of
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Fusarium
                                                                                     Session 4.  Student  oral  competition:  Innovations    2:19  Live  QA8  on Zoom    21       2:48  74  5 Anuradha Jayathissa -  reflect  growth and deoxynivalenol  production
                                                                                                                                                                                           resistant
                                                                                                                                                                                               barley
                                                                                                                                                                                                  cultivars
                                                                                     for  Pre-  and  Post-harvest  Quality                                                                 during malting
                                                                                     1 Amadou Sidibé -  Preharvest  UV  treatment  a potential  ecological    Session    9. Student  poster  flash-talks:  Genetics,
                                                                            2:25  15  approach for  the control    of Xanthomonas  campestris   pv.  vitians  induces    12       3:00  75  6 Kerin Hudson -  Pathogenicity    of Fusarium  graminearum  and F.  poae
                                                                                     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
                                                                                                                                                        spot
                                                                                                                                                            of wheat)
                                                                                     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
                                                                                                                                              for

                                                                                                                                                Breeding Canola with Increased Seed Protein.
                                                                                                                                        Arabidopsis
                                                                                     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
                                                                                                                  / 13        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
                                                                                                                                                      in Manitoba,
                                                                                                                                                                 2017 to 2020
                                                                                                                                                  species
                                                                                                                                             head blight
                                                                                                                                                                                           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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