UUֱ�� News - Dept. of Plant Science

First cohort of UUֱ�� Sustainability Systems Initiative Fellows includes Mac Campus "Smart insecticide" team

webfull — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:45:22 +0000

New award provides support for the next generation of sustainability researchers, promotes interdisciplinary approaches

Developing a smart insecticide, assessing protective coatings in marine environments and measuring space allocated to active transport are among the projects undertaken by the inaugural cohort of UUֱ�� Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) Fellows.

Published: 4 September 2024

Professor Valerio Hoyos-Villegas receives early career scientist award

webfull — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:44:58 +0000

Congratulations to UUֱ�� Plant Science Professor Valerio Hoyos-Villegas, 2024 winner of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN)'s Early Career Scientist Award! This award recognizes an early career scientist making important contributions to plant phenotyping.

Published: 26 August 2024

2024 Interdisciplinary Research Development Award Recipients Announced

webfull — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:30:04 +0000

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Development (IRD) Award, announced earlier this month! As part of the Computational & Data Systems Initiative, these awards are presented by the UUֱ�� Collaborative for AI & Society and encourage interdisciplinary research aimed at understanding and positively influencing the impact of AI on society through projects targeting a range of issues.

Published: 26 August 2024

NSERC awards Discovery Grants funding to eight UUֱ�� Agricultural and Environmental Sciences projects

webfull — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:10:20 +0000

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 101 UUֱ�� research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $23.5 million, including $639,500 for eight projects submitted by researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The Discovery Grants support ongoing programs with long-term goals, recognizing the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.

Published: 30 July 2024

Prof. Dastmalchi receives prestigious Phytochemical Society award

webfull — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:53:43 +0000

Please join us in congratulating Mehran Dastmalchi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Plant Science, on receiving the prestigious Arthur C. Neish Award from the Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA). The 63rd annual PSNA meeting took place in Monterrey, Mexico from July 15–19, 2024, where Professor Dastmalchi presented his lab's research in a keynote speech. Among the accomplishments recognized at the conference were his group’s findings on the biosynthesis of medicinal alkaloids in the Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus).

Published: 30 July 2024

2024 inductees selected for Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame, including two former Mac professors

webfull — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:33:25 +0000

Four agricultural champions from across Canada have been selected by the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame as its 2024 inductees. Dr. Bruce Coulman, Dr. Michael Eskin, Paul Larmer and Dr. Charles Vincent will be formally inducted on November 2 at a ceremony during the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, Ontario.

Published: 26 June 2024

Mac student awarded prestigious Seed Science Foundation scholarship

webfull — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:10:09 +0000

Please join us in congratulating Henry Alexander Cordoba Novoa, Ph.D. candidate in plant breeding and genetics at UUֱ��'s Macdonald Campus, on receiving the Roger Krueger Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Seed Science Foundation at the American Seed Trade Association Leadership Summit held in Nashville, TN on June 15–19, 2024. This award recognizes Henry's outstanding research, integrity, and professionalism and his passion for the future of agriculture and the seed industry.

Published: 25 June 2024

Skills shortage could lead to food insecurity

webfull — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:14:18 +0000

A lack of scientists specialized in plant breeding could lead to ‘dire’ food security implications in Australia, and around the world, according to new research conducted across three continents.

Plant breeding is a multidisciplinary science that underpins the global production of food, animal feed, fuel and fibre.

Published: 12 June 2024

$3.6 million in funding for genomic solutions in agriculture, bio-food, and environment

webfull — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:46:47 +0000

Génome Québec and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – secteur nature et technologies (FRQ), have announced the 15 research projects that have won major funding through the third round of the Genomics Integration Program – Agriculture and Biofood, Forestry and Environment, including two led by UUֱ�� researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The total investment, including public and private partners, represents nearly $3.6 million.

Published: 12 June 2024

New ECP3 greenhouse unveiled

webfull — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:46:41 +0000

From left to right: Roseann O’Reilly Runte (Director of CFI, Government of Canada), Hugo Dionne (Québec government representative), Marie-Claude Bibeau (Minister of National Revenue and MP for Compton—Stanstead), Peter Moffett (Director of CORSÈVE), Sébastien Roy (Professor of Biology, Université de Sherbrooke), Anja Geitmann (Dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UUֱ��), Carole Beaulieu (Dean of Science, Université de Sherbrooke), Pierre Cossette (Rector, Université de Sherbrooke), Catherine Latendresse (Head of Communications, METRO).

Published: 6 May 2024