Oussama with certificate

Alyson presenting

all the team

Bye #CSPB2025 ! 🌿An inspiring conference packed with amazing plant science! Thanks to the organizers, @cspbscbv.bsky.social executive, and my team for making us proud! 💚
Special shoutout to Oussama from @leducq-lab.bsky.social / @eplopez.bsky.social for winning the Agrisera poster award! 🏆 #ProudPI

What a nice way to end #CSPB2025! Being invited to share ice cream cake with the Singh lab celebrating Dr. Jaswinder Singh’s birthday! Two celebrations for Jaswinder: recipient of the #MarySpencer award and on his birthday no less! Happy Birthday Jaswinder Singh!

Marcia presentation

Excellent 2025 Carl Douglas Award plenary at #CSPB2025 by Dr. Marcia Gonçalves Dias from the Monaghan Lab at Queen’s University 👏 — outstanding work and an inspiring journey from plant pathology to plant immunity.

Excited to see what’s next for you! 💚

Final talk of #CSPB2025 is from Daphne Goring, winner of the CSPB Gold Medal award for outstanding career research and leadership contributions, primarily in Canada.
Indeed, Daphne has had a very productive career, contributing important insights into the mechanisms of self incompatibility.

Congratulations to Márcia Gonçalves Dias, from the Monaghan lab at Queen’s, winner of the Carl Douglas Award for outstanding contributions to plant biology by a postdoctoral fellow #CSPB2025

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research on how microtopography and soil moisture gradients influence growth and turgor loss point in white spruce at #CSPB2025 in Halifax,CA 🌲✨
Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat and exchange ideas! 🌱💧 #plantscientist #welovetrees

Student award

Middle career award

Postdoc award

ECR award

Congratulations to @cspbscbv.bsky.social 2025 award winners! 🎉💚 very well deserved!
#CSPB2025 🌿

Jen presentation

Beautiful plenary by @awesomebiota.bsky.social during #CSPB2025 first ever session dedicated to Plant Sciences teaching! 📚🌿

Botanists

The Goud Lab is at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Meeting #CSPB2025! Come check out the poster session this evening and talk to my students about their work on #plant #ecophysiology, #metal #contamination, #peatland #restoration, salt stress and #climatechange @smuscience.bsky.social

#CSPB2025

Zoe talk

Second plenary of #CSPB2025 Day 2 with Dr. Zoë Migicovsky, CRC in Agri-Food & Sustainable Agriculture at Acadia University diving into the fascinating complexities and challenges of 🍎 apple breeding 🌱

📖 Relevant research 👉 acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Predicting sweetpotato traits using machine learning: Impact of environmental and agronomic factors on shape and size Consumer preference in produce, defined by shape and size, heavily influences this market. Understanding the environmental and management factors that…

Day 2 of #CSPB2025 kicks off with our first plenary! Dr. Dani Jones is sharing insights on using AI to drive smarter decision-making in agriculture 🤖🌿

Check out some of their relevant research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Jiaxu

Poster

Lab

Day 1 of #CSPB2025 ✅
@jiaxuwu.bsky.social delivered an outstanding talk on some truly exciting work! The first poster session is in the books, and we wrapped up the day with the banquet 🎉

Don’t miss Oussama and Alyson’s posters tomorrow, come check them out!

Evolutionarily conserved bacterial effectors hijack abscisic acid signaling to induce an aqueous environment in the apoplast Roussin-Léveillée et al. demonstrate that two Pseudomonas syringae effector proteins induce abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis and signaling in Arabidopsis. Although stomatal opening early in infection ...

Time for the #CSPB2025 Mary E. Spencer Award Plenary by Prof. @moffettpeter.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social 🏆🌿

He has been instrumental in advancing plant sciences in Québec through the FRQNT regroupement stratégique Centre SÈVE 💚

Some exciting research 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Presentation prof Nambara

Next #CSPB2025 plenary, Prof. Nambara from @UofT talking about hormones, calcium and humidity.

A relevant story from his lab investigating drought mechanisms in canola: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Frontiers | Genome-Wide Characterization of the MLO Gene Family in Cannabis sativa Reveals Two Genes as Strong Candidates for Powdery Mildew Susceptibility Cannabis sativa is increasingly being grown around the world for medicinal, industrial, and recreational purposes. As in all cultivated plants, cannabis is e...

Second #CSPB2025 plenary: David Joly from University of Moncton presenting his work on cannabis, a pioneer on cannabis resistance to plant pathogens.

Here some of his work: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

#CSPB2025 David Joly starts his talk with the question “who is David Joly?”
He is the speaker telling us about the importance of cannabis as a crop.

Xin Li

First #CSPB2025 plenary: Prof Xin Li from UBC presenting several groundbreaking stories concluding with this study published this year in @science.org: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Xin Li starts off #CSPB2025 presenting an exciting new research direction from her group. Fungal pathogens that break the one nucleus one genome rule

Marcus Samuel kicks off #CSPB2025

Not far from #CSPB2025. Just need to get around the bay of #Fundy

Edel, Jiaxu and Alyson

Ocean

Resto

Edel, Jiaxu and Alyson

Suffering, we are not 😅
#CSPB2025 💚🌿

Alyson and Jiaxu in airplane

Edel in airplane

To @cspbscbv.bsky.social 2025!
Follow #CSPB2025 to learn more about plant sciences research in Canada! 🇨🇦

En route to Halifax for #CSPB2025 #CSPB #SCBV. Looking forward to hearing lots of great science at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists-Société canadienne de biologie végétale

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Who do I know that's going to the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists #CSPB2025 conference at Dal starting on Saturday? I'm giving a plenary talk on Monday in the brand new Education section. Are skeet-ups a thing?! 😅

Reminder to #CSPB #SCBV ECR members to get your applications in for the George H Duff Travel Award to attend #CSPB2025

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Are you a student and planning to attend CSPB 2025 in Halifax? The George H Duff Student Travel Award Aplications are now open. Check out www.cspb-scbv.ca/travel-bursaries for info and application. #cspb #scbv #plantscience #plantscienceconference #plantbiology #plantbiologyconference #cspb2025