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!

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!

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

Some lingonberries from last fall on Vancouver Island enjoying a little sunshine from the BERRI Lab!

We had our inaugural @goufv.bsky.social Agriculture Department Student Research Showcase yesterday aka B.A.R.N. (Beginning Agriculture Researcher Network) showcase their hard work to faculty, peers & community partners. BERRI lab member Faby even won People’s Choice. 10/10 will organize this again!

First pre-print for the BERRI lab is out! Integrating field observations, modelling, in vitro culture & metabolomics to understand how high Arctic plants respond to warming climates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For any CSPB-SCBV Members
here. The deadline for Mary Spencer Award Nominations has been extended to Feb 28,2025. Please nominate a deserving member today! All info is here: www.cspb-scbv.ca/spencer-award

Happy International Day of Women in Science from the BERRI Lab! This is the awesome group of women working hard to build resilient, sustainable berry horticulture in this unpredictable, changing climate (and honestly these days not just the environmental one). #womeninstem #womeninscience

Canadian Plant Scientists the CSPB-SCBV isn’t on BlueSky… yet.. (insert intrigue here) but if you know an awesome plant scientist you should nominate them for a CSPB - SCBV Award. There are two ECR categories - Ragai Ibrahim student paper & Carl Douglas Award. Nominations due Feb 1!

Making the jump here with pics from the happy place in cranberry bog!