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Topics of expertise

Innovation and Commercialization

Ian Potter, PhD

President and CEO

EXPERTISE

  • Corporate strategy development
  • Leadership development
  • Industry network development
  • Expertise developing innovative business models 

Darby McGrath, PhD

Vice President, Research & Development

EXPERTISE

  • Organizational development
  • Research strategy and priority-setting
  • Innovation models

CROSS APPOINTMENTS

  • Adjunct Lecturer, Environment & Resource Studies, University of Waterloo
  • Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University

Nicole De Long, PhD

Director, Business & Client Development

EXPERTISE

  • Client and partner development
  • Contract management

Aaron Morrow

Director, Operations

EXPERTISE

  • Operations
  • Facilitity management
  • Process improvement
  • Project management
  • Customer service

Biological Crop Protection

Rose Buitenhuis, PhD

Director, Biological Crop Protection

EXPERTISE

  • Biological control
  • Entomology
  • Greenhouse pests
  • Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

CROSS APPOINTMENTS

  • Adjunct Faculty, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph

Andrew C. Wylie, PhD

Research Scientist, Plant Pathology

EXPERTISE

  • Plant pathology
  • Microbial biological control
  • Greenhouse disease
  • Integrated disease management

Consumer, Sensory & Market Insights

Amy Bowen, PhD

Director, Consumer, Sensory & Market Insights

EXPERTISE

  • Consumer insights
  • Consumer science
  • Sensory evaluation
  • Sensory panels (trained and untrained)
  • Using consumer data to build marketing programs
  • Certified sommelier

CROSS APPOINTMENTS

  • Associated Graduate Faculty, Food Science, University of Guelph

Alexandra Grygorczyk, PhD

Research Scientist, Sensory & Consumer Services

EXPERTISE

  • Consumer insights and sensory evaluation for ornamentals, edible garden plants, flowers for Asian-Canadians, landscape roses
  • Food science
  • Science communication

CROSS APPOINTMENTS

  • Adjunct Faculty & Special Graduate Faculty, Food Science, University of Guelph
  • Associated Graduate Faculty, Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Horticultural Technology Solutions

Brian Lynch, PhD

Director, Horticultural Technology Systems

EXPERTISE

  • Guidance, navigation and control
  • Computer vision
  • Mobile robotics
  • Adaptive systems
  • Robotic manipulators

Dan Bath, PhD

Research Scientist, Horticultural  Automation

EXPERTISE

  • Computer vision and robotics in biological applications
  • Pose estimation and quantification
  • Optics
  • Systems integration

Plant Responses and the Environment

Rhoda deJonge, PhD

Director, Plant Responses & the Environment

EXPERTISE

  • Greening the Canadian Landscape
  • Nursery production
  • Soil remediation
  • Urban forestry
  • Climate challenges of Canadian trees
  • Ecological statistics and trial design

Qinglu Ying, PhD

Research Scientist, Plant Production

EXPERTISE

  • Controlled environment plant production
  • LED light application
  • Plant physiology
  • Nutrition
  • Secondary metabolism

Plant Variety Development

Travis Banks, MSc

Director, Plant Variety Development

EXPERTISE

  • Bioinformatics
  • DNA sequence analysis and genetic mapping
  • Trait development in horticulture products

CROSS-APPOINTMENTS

  • Special Graduate Faculty, Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph

Rachael LeBlanc, MSc

Research Scientist, Plant Breeding

EXPERTISE

  • Apple breeding
  • Disease resistance
  • Improved flavour

David Liscombe, PhD

Research Scientist, Biochemistry

EXPERTISE

  • Analytical chemistry
  • Biochemical profiles for horticulture products
  • Metabolites
  • Plant biochemistry

CROSS-APPOINTMENTS

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biology, McMaster University
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Brock University

Michael Pautler, PhD

Head of Genomics Services,
Platform Genetics Inc.

EXPERTISE

  • Applied genomics and reverse genetics
  • Trait development 
  • Induced variation
  • Disease resistance
  • Platformgenetics.ca

Valerio Primomo, PhD

Research Scientist, Vegetable Breeding

EXPERTISE

  • Breeding locally-adapted horticulture products
  • Genetic mapping and marker-assisted selection
  • Plant genetics
 

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