Dr. Danielle Way
Climate warming impacts on photosynthesis
University of Western Ontario (CD Nelson Lecture)
Dr. Way obtained her BSc in 2002 and her PhD in 2008 from the University of Toronto and did her post-doc at Duke University. In 2012, she was hired as an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, where she received tenure in 2018. She also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Duke University and a Joint Appointment with Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Dr. Way seeks to understand plant responses to climate change, focusing on how plant carbon and water fluxes are affected by elevated CO2 concentrations and temperatures. She has published over 65 papers in this field and her scientific impact has been acknowledged through her election to the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Way is also active in the scientific publishing community where she is the Reviews Editor for Global Change Biology, a Topic Editor for Plant, Cell & Environment, and was recently the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Tree Physiology.
Dr. Peter Constabel
Fantastic flavonoids: From enzymes to transcription factors and back again
University of Victoria (Special Symposium honouring Ragai Ibrahim)
C. Peter Constabel is a Professor of Biology and the Director of the Centre for Forest Biology at the University of Victoria. He first became fascinated with secondary plant metabolism during is MSc studies with G. H. Neil Towers at the University of British Columbia. He obtained his doctorate in Molecular Biology from the Université de Montréal, then did post-doctoral research with Clarence Ryan at Washington State University. His research focuses on the biosynthesis, regulation, and function of phenolic secondary metabolites in poplars and other trees. He has published extensively on plant tannins. In 2018, received the CSPB's David J. Gifford Award in Tree Biology.
Dr. Joan Laur
The Pathway to Phytotechnologies at the Botanical Garden of Montreal
Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale
Jardin Botanique de Montréal
Upon receiving BSc (Microbio) and MSc (Plant biotech) from the University of Toulouse, France, I later moved to Canada where I completed a PhD in Forest Sciences at the University of Alberta and a PDF in Phytopathology at the Université Laval. Thanks to a post-doctoral fellowship and a Louis-Berlinguet Rising Star award from the FRQNT I joined the IRBV at the Botanical Garden of Montreal in 2018 where I now focus my work as a Research Scientist on the effective deployment of Phytotechnologies.