CAPB members are eligible for the following award in Plant Canada 2019:
- CAPB oral presentation award: $500 for 1st place and $250 for 2nd Place.
- CAPB poster presentation award: $500 for 1st place and $250 for 2nd Place.
- CAPB travel award: $200 each successful application.
In order to be eligible for these award, you need to be a current CAPB member AND select CAPB as your association during conference registration.
CAPB members get significant discounts on registration fees for the conference while receiving additional benefits such as travel bursaries and presentation prizes for students, membership in the International Association for Plant Biotechnology, and access to bi-annual newsletters and other communications. Therefore, please visit our website and take-up a membership at CAPB. A two year full membership will be $70 instead of $80 for two 1 year memberships, and a student/postdoc/emeritus two year membership will be $25 and will entitle you to discounts at both CAPB and Plant Canada meetings. Any two year membership taken up starting today will be valid until the end of December 2020.
Please feel free to share this message with your colleagues and anyone who may be interested in our association and in attending our conferences.
It’s time to renew your membership for the Canadian Association for Plant Biotechnology (CAPB) for 2019!
Plant Canada 2019 : Communicating Innovation in Plant Science
July 7-10, 2019
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Keynote Speaker
Dan Riskin, evolutionary biologist and former co-host of Daily Planet
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
- Liam Dolan
Evolution and development of land plant rooting systems - Siobhan Brady
Cellular Responses in Plant Roots to Environmental Stress - William Plaxton
Feeding hungry plants: purple acid phosphatases play a pivotal role in phosphorus nutrition - Leslie Sieburth
Root-shoot signalling and RNA decapping - Brian Fowler
Winter Wheat Production in the High Winter Stress Climate of Western Canada - Jaswinder Singh
New paradigms in the genetic regulation of pre- and post- harvest grain germination in cereals - Clarence Swanton
The Problem with Resource-limited Plant Competition - Maureen Hanson
Improving Photosynthesis in C3 Plants - Bing Yang
Genome Editing for Crop Improvement
Meeting Organizing Committee
- Geoffrey Wasteneys, Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (Chair)
- Abdelali Hannoufa, Canadian Association for Plant Biotechnology
- John Markham, Canadian Botanical Association
- Dilantha Fernando, Canadian Phytopathological Society
- Valerie Gravel, Canadian Society for Horticultural Science
- Jaswinder Singh, Canadian Society of Agronomy
- Rory Degenhardt, Canadian Weed Science Society
- Deena Errampalli, Plant Canada President