Virtual Seminar Series
The CAPB seminar series focuses on aspects relevant to plant biotechnology including research and development, commercialization considerations, regulations, and public opinion.
Our 2025 Virtual Seminar Series has concluded, but current CAPB members may contact webadmin@canadianplantbiotech.ca to request access to recordings of these interesting seminars. Continue below for information on our speakers, as well as past seminars hosted by the CAPB.
January 30th, 2025
Dr. Fernando Merwaiss
Laboratorio de Biotecnología de Virus de Plantas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Valencia, Spain
Development of Plant Virus-Derived Nanoparticles Displaying Multivalent Nanobodies
February 27th, 2025
Dr. Ray Collier
Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center -
In the Public Sector, Moving Plant
Transformation Forward
March 27th, 2025
Dr. John McMurdy
Vice President for Plant Biotechnology and Seed Innovation, CropLife International
Regulatory and Trade Policy Impacts
on Genome Editing use in Plants
Previous Seminar Presentations
2024 Student Seminars
We had an impressive lineup of graduate student presentations from institutions across the country.
Dr. Leena Tripathi
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture,
Dar es Salaam (Tanzanie)
Precision Genetic Technologies for
Banana Improvement
April 6, 2023
Dr. Hadrien Peyret
Biochemistry & Metabolism,
John Innes Centre
The Use of Cowpea Mosaic Virus Capsids to Stabilize and Deliver Designer RNA Molecules
March 2, 2023
Prof. Ed Rybicki
Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of Cape Town
Molecular Farming in Cape Town:
An Introduction to the Biopharming Research Unit
January 26, 2023
Jennifer Hubert
Director, Plant Biotechnology,
CropLife Canada
Regulatory Oversight of Plant Breeding Innovations in Canada and Globally
June 22, 2022
Dr. Stacy Singer
AAFC - Lethbridge
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Gene Editing
of Alfalfa for Enhanced Resilience to
Climate Change
May 18, 2022
Dr. Jacqueline Monaghan
Queen's University
Exploring the Prospect of Deploying Phospho-alleles to Engineer Stress Resilience in Plants
April 20, 2022