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Research Interests: Plant Tissue culture, transformation, gene editing; Application of cell technologies - protoplasts and microspore-based genetic manipulation for crop improvement; Genetic enhancement of protein, off-flavour, anti-nutritional quality and processability in pulse crops.

Research Interests: Sustainability; agriculture; plant science and plant breeding. My academic discipline is plant science with a focus on fruit crops.

Research Interests: Molecular and hormonal signals in ripening grapes; cis-regulatory code for transcriptional regulation in grapevines; impact of deficit irrigation and crop size on fruit and wine aroma and quality; canopy management.

Research Interests: Diagnostic molecular microbiology, Next-generation sequencing, antimicrobial resistance, development of diagnostic assays and tools for optimising antimicrobial use through whole-genome sequencing (WGS).

Research Interests: Fungi in forest and wine systems; determining the structure of fungal networks connecting trees and the strains of yeast responsible for fermentation.

Research Interests: Agroecology; botany; biological control of weeds; Indigenous food systems and security; plant evolutionary ecology; range limits; rangeland ecology.

Research Interests: Learning and memory; Working memory; The central nervous system; neurotrophins; neuronal activity; synaptic activity and plasticity. Mechanisms of persistent firing activity in the cortex.

Research Interests: Aquatic ecology.

Research Interests: In my work with Parks Canada, I am researching how to best incorporate different streams of evidence into carrying out effective applied restoration ecology projects. This work is based on my research background and extensive experience in quantitative ecology, fisheries biology, invasive species biology and evidence-based conservation biology. I also do some consulting work on questions of mitigating impacts of development for First Nations, NGOs, government and industry.

Research Interests: Physiology of ectomycorrhizas and roots of woody plants; effects of fire and silviculture on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities; carbon allocation within and between woody plants, orchard management under climate change.

Research Interests: Grape pest management, biology and management of homopteran insects, epidemiology and management of insect-borne plant pathogens.

Research Interests: Isolate and characterize yeast populations associated with vineyards; retrotransposons.

Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions; soil health; plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria; biological control; postharvest fungal pathogens; orchard replant disease; nitrogen cycling; nitrification; denitrification.

Research Interests: Foundation species; biodiversity; marine heatwaves; ecosystem resilience under climate change; climate solutions; phenotypic plasticity and adaptation.

Research Interests: Skepticism and scientific literacy.

Research Interests: genotoxic stress-sensing (i.e., cell-cycle control and DNA repair) mechanisms and their deregulation in human cells as an initiating and rate-limiting event in cancer development; environmental and hereditary interactions underlying human cancer: breast cancer drug development, Herceptin (Trastuzumab)

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary approaches to conservation, collaborative caribou management, diverse ways of knowing, Indigenous governance, language, and knowledge.

Research Interests: Plant Breeding; Agricultural Crop Development; Quantitative Genetics

Research Interests: Environmental change; chironomid palaeoecology; quaternary palaeoecology and paleoclimatology; dynamics of arctic and alpine tree-line ecosystems; aquatic insect ecology; and biomonitoring; use of aquatic insects (living and fossil) as indicators of environmental change.

Research Interests: Plant secondary metabolite pathway engineering and discovery of novel insecticidal and antifungal proteins for crop protection.