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CSHS 2022 Conference

Fruit Symposium

Symposium Chair: Dr. Simone Castellarin

Invited Speakers

Dr. Gustavo A. Lobos

Associate Professor
University of Talca, Chile

Gustavo A. Lobos is an Agronomist Engineer with a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from the University of
Talca (UTALCA), Chile. In collaboration with Michigan State University, he developed his doctoral thesis
studying the impact of radiation (quantity and quality) under photoselective shading nets in blueberries.
In Chile, he collaborated to establish the first national blueberry breeding program. In 2011, he was hired
as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (UTALCA), and today he is an active member
of the Center for Plant Breeding and Phenomics. Much of his career has been devoted to: i) solving
productive problems through the understanding of GxE interactions, in species of economic relevance for
export markets, with particular emphasis on blueberries; and ii) plant breeding, through the development
of phenomics as a way to identify outstanding individuals in several active breeding programs oriented to
abiotic stresses. He currently leads competitive public projects and has authored several articles in these
areas. Now he is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Food and Energy Safety" and an
international consultant. Dr. Lobos will present his studies on highbush blueberry postharvest softening.

Dr. Zoë Migicovsky

Assistant Professor
Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr. Zoë Migicovsky is an Assistant Professor in Biology at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia,
where her research focuses on woody perennial fruit crops and their wild relatives. She graduated with a
PhD in Biology from Dalhousie University before working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of
Agriculture. Her postdoctoral research involved studying graft-transmissible effects of rootstocks on
grapevine shoots, which has important applications for crop improvement. In grapevine, her work uses
diverse and multidimensional methods to measure trait variation in grafted plants including viticulturally
important traits, vine physiology, mineral composition, leaf shape, and gene expression. Dr. Migicovsky
will discuss the effect of root systems on shoot system traits across years including vine growth, yield,
physiology, wood anatomy, and wine volatiles.

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