I am joining Science Meets Parliament as a Delegate! The objective of this program is to "strengthen connections between scientific and political communities". Given the current global landscape and challenges in academia I am looking forward to learning & connecting through this program.

On today's look back at Student Research Day's microlecture presentations, Emily Foster, Horticulture, with "Melatonin enhances the heat tolerance of Fragaria vesca, native alpine strawberry." Congrats, Emily. 👏 📽 youtu.be/ucyUpfmaa6U?...

Postdoc Opportunity at McGill University, Montreal, Canada You have worked with Arabidopsis / other plant model systems & are trained in high-end imaging? Details: www.plantbiomechanics.net/joining-the-... #plants, #Arabidopsis, #postdoc, #jobs, #microscopy, #confocal, #molecularbiology

On today's Student Research Day Microlecture retrospective, Sophia-Rose Snelgrove, Horticulture Science and Entomology, presents "Population and Diversity of Leafhoppers in British Columbia's Strawberry and Blueberry Crops." Congratulations, Sophia-Rose. 👏 📽 youtu.be/w1_0KBjJUgw?...

Last up this week in our review of Student Research Day's microlecture presenters is Lainey Peters, Biology, with "Is kynurenine a strawberry growth factor?" Congratulations, Lainey. 👏 📽 youtu.be/SjIkcVrAX5o?...

Feeling some FOMO after seeing all the amazing work graduate students members are doing? Want to be eligible for awards at the next meeting? Were you sad because you couldn't attend the CSPB Mixer (or did you promise our Comms Director you would renew / join to get in?). Join today!

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure - it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

Closing out this week's review of Student Research Day's microlecture presentations, Fabiola Cruz Alderete, Agriculture and Environmental Science, presents "The effects of drought stress in cerastium regelii." Congratulations, Fabiola. 👏 📽 youtu.be/Q2KmQLS41TU?...

Outstanding talk by @laurierbiology.bsky.social colleague Prof. Jenn Baltzer on post-wildfire dynamics and the unexpected twist involving a deadly fungal pathogen! Excellent session chaired by Prof. @plantdrlauren.bsky.social. #PlantBio2026 @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Had the most fun I think I’ve ever had in a concurrent session at #PlantBio2026 today. It was truly a privilege to chair a session on wildfire ecology & smoke biology with the most incredible group of speakers. Together we told the story of fire from the field to the cell 🔥 @cspbscbv.bsky.social

📣#PlantBio2026 daily highlight: Development: Fire Ecology and Smoke Signaling in a Changing Climate Concurrent Session!🌱 plantbiology2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp #plantscience #plantsci

Auxin is metabolized through kynurenine in Hypericum perforatum L. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.726114v1

Nice article on climate resilient berries in BC including a feature of our work on cranberry warming in the lab. Plus bonus, they used my blueberry photo for the cover! bcbusiness.ca/business/env...

Inside the race to climate-proof B.C.’s berry crops

Extreme weather is hitting B.C.’s berry farms hard. Researchers are developing climate-resilient crops using genetics, AI and new tech to protect the future of the industry.

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The BERRI Lab is looking for a postdoctoral nominee for the second round of Canada Impact+ Postdoctoral Research & Training Awards. If you are interested in working on Canadian & Northern Berries in an interdisciplinary context check out the full posting on the lab website www.berrrilab.com/joinus

New pre-print out led by postdoc Dr Sarah Lane. Really proud of this work which allows for simultaneous metabolomics and phytohormone quantification in soils to expand our understanding of soil-plant interactions at ecological and agricultural scales through the power of analytical chemistry!

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Integrated phytohormone quantification and metabolomics analysis enables new insights into the soil phytohormonome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713310v1

The fact that Americans thought Auxin was a “Hoax from Europe” rightfully got some attention in my latest #PlantScienceClassics post. But it’s actually even funnier if you learn about the context & consequence of White speaking these words to Went at the AAAS Meeting in Pittsburgh. #PlantScience 🧪 🧵

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When Frits Went once failed to demonstrate the effect of auxin at an AAAS meeting, it was White who loudly declared “that the auxin business was obviously a hoax and that it was high time that these charlatans from Europe were sent back to where they belonged”. An experience that shook Went.

Busy week for papers in the lab! First PhD paper out for BERRI student Dan Gaudet with a method to measure kynurenine in plants. In humans the kynurenine is a primary tryptophan degradation pathway to NAD. In plants much less is known making this a great step. www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...

We’re #hiring at Canadian Science Publishing! 📚 Peer Review Coordinator Help support authors, reviewers, and editors while coordinating the peer review process for our journals. Learn more: https://ow.ly/OWay50YqgTg #PeerReview #SciencePublishing #AcademicJobs

Happy to be serving as a guest editor for a special issue in Plant Science on new, unusual and non-traditional plant growth regulators. We invite original research articles and reviews addressing all aspects of non-canonical signaling molecules in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

NEW PAPER: Differential temperature adaptation mechanisms in the High Arctic-adapted Regel’s chickweed (Cerastium regelii Ostenf.) and the widespread longstalk starwort (Stellaria longipes Goldie.) 🔗 https://ow.ly/wv8Q50XZSuZ

Congrats to BERRI Lab Alumna Sarah Koeppe Alison Goeres and Nykita Wigley on having their work looking at the effect of microalgae-derived bioenhancer in strawberry growth and soil nutritional and microbial status published in @canjplantsci.bsky.social @goufv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1139/cjps...

Microalgae carbon capture waste acts as a biostimulant in strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa cv. Albion), altering the soil microbiome and improving soil nutrient availability

Microalgae are the basis of many modern-day carbon capture bioreactors. These bioreactors result in production of spent media waste, or cell-free supernatant, whose application has previously been fou...

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Great article on the work we’ve started in Yellowknife looking at community priorities and paths forward to support food sovereignty work with YKDFN. So fortunate to work with this group of awesome women! fraservalleytoday.ca/2025/11/30/u...

UFV researchers join forces to help improve food security for northern Indigenous groups

ABBOTSFORD - Two experts from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) have used their seemingly differing ba...

fraservalleytoday.ca

CSPB Award Nominations are open!! Check the individual awards pages for full details and links to the applications. The Carl Douglas Postdoctoral Prize, Ragai Ibrahim Student Publication Award, CD Nelson Mid Career Award & new CSPB Teaching Award are all available in 2026. www.cspb-scbv.ca/awards

Was awesome to have you! The day passed so fast! 💚 Can’t wait to get all the amazing data your team is generating out! 👏

Lauren Erland@plantdrlauren.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Great introduction to Quebec at the #SEQ2025 meeting at Laval today where Sophia & Emily presented the work the lab has been doing on leafhopper monitoring in blueberries & strawberries! Thanks @edelplopez.bsky.social for being such amazing hosts & collaborators!

Great introduction to Quebec at the #SEQ2025 meeting at Laval today where Sophia & Emily presented the work the lab has been doing on leafhopper monitoring in blueberries & strawberries! Thanks @edelplopez.bsky.social for being such amazing hosts & collaborators!

Oct 24th (Fri) - The EARLY BIRD registration and abstract submission DEADLINE for the 2025 #CSPB_ERM is fast approaching! @cspbscbv LINK HERE: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025 Early bird discounted rates: $25 for #CSPB student members and $40 for postdoc members!

Canadian Society of Plant Biologists - Eastern Regional 2025 Meeting

Fourwaves - Canadian Society of Plant Biologists - Eastern Regional 2025 Meeting

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Nice highlight on the BC LeafHope Team monitoring leafhoppers in strawberries & blueberries in the Fraser Valley! @edelplopez.bsky.social

FraserValleyToday.ca@fraservalleytoday.bsky.social · last yr.

UFV researcher co-leads national project tracking invasive leafhoppers

End of a great week at CSHS/CSA Joint Meeting this week. Presented an update on our cranberry warming studies, BERRI NSERC USRA student Emily & PhD Candidate Dan won poster presentation awards and caught up with old and new friends!

A little late to share but a great article from @goufv.bsky.social on the work ELAP/Global Affairs Canada Funded-international research intern Stéfhane has done in the lab. We will be sad to see her leave us this week! blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2025/04...

From Brazil to BERRI: A research journey rooted in climate and community

Thousands of kilometres away from her home in Brazil, Stefhane Brachmann is getting an accelerated introduction to research working at the University of the Fraser Valley’s Berry Environmental Resilie...

blogs.ufv.ca

Congrats to Emily Foster for receiving an NSERC USRA to support her work on the LeafHope m & Environmental Resilience work at BERRI this summer. Emily started last Fall as a work study student on our cranberry warming project & we are so happy to keep her around this summer! #BERRI #USRA