McGill-SCAU program 2014 – Introduction to Canadian Agriculture Coordinator: Dr Caroline Begg office – Raymond 2-028 tel: 514-398-8749
caroline.begg@mcgill.ca July 7 to August 3 2014 TENATIVE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
July 7 Monday
July 8 Tuesday
July 9 Wednesday
July 10 Thursday
July 11 Friday
9:00 Tour Laird
8:30 WHMIS
8:30 Start of Project work
Project work
Project work or study day
9:30 Library tour
10:00 Prof Kevin Wade - Introduction to
meet in R3-011 : Bring Lab
11:30 Course work / internship
Canadian Agriculture / Faculty of Agriculture
coat and notebook - no
discussion
and Environmental Sciences
sandals or shorts
11:30 meet to discuss assignment 1
Welcome lunch – Faculty lounge
Lunch – Mac
Lunch – Mac
Lunch- Mac
Lunch- Mac
12:00-13:00
13:00 Downtown by STM bus/
13:00 Mac Dairy farm – Tour by Paul
14:30 Meet with Tim Murphy
Meldrum Farm Manager – Emy (Haomin)
Santropol Roulant -Edible McGill/ takes them to farm
Chinatown
5:30 Grocery store
July 14 Monday
July 15 Tuesday
July 16 Wednesday
July 17 Thursday
July 18 Friday
10:00 Prof Mary Hendrickson9:00 Prof Danielle Donnelly Tissue culture
Project work
Project work
Project work or study day
Nelson – What’s on your plate in
and tour of lab
Quebec
11:00 Discussion
Lunch – on the bus
Lunch – Mac
Lunch – Mac
Lunch – Mac
Lunch- Mac
11:30 leave for Les Jardins
13:30 Dr Dina Schwertfeger – Trace Metal
Glenorra, Ormstown community
Contamination
supported agriculture farm Ian
15:30 Discussion
and Julie
5:30 Grocery store
July 21 Monday
July 22 Tuesday
July 23 Wednesday
July 24 Thursday
July 25 Friday
9:00 Dr Caroline Begg – Food
9:00 Prof Vijaya Raghavan – Post Harvest
Project work
Project work
Project work or study day
security / insecurity
Technology
Discussion
11:00 Discussion
Lunch – Mac
Lunch- Mac
Lunch at Mac
Lunch – Mac
Lunch- Mac
12:30 leave for Ferme
13:30 Prof Tim Geary - Discovery Strategies
Tullochgorum, Ormstown Broiler for Antiparasitic Drugs
chickens and organic field crops
15:30 Discussion
5:30 Grocery store
Steve Lalonde
July 28 Monday
July 29 Tuesday
July 30 Wednesday
July 31 Thursday
August 1 Friday
9:00 Assignment 3 presentations 8:30 leave for Lufa rooftop farms – tour at
Project work
Project work
9:00 Presentation of
10:30 Jesse Pratt
project work
Lunch – Mac
Lunch – Mac
Lunch – Mac
Lunch – Mac
Farewell lunch – Faculty
Lounge 12:00-13:00
13:15 leave for Valacta – dairy
herd analysis – Dr Robert Moore
Approximately 15:00 Review of internship
requirements for the report and presentation
5:30 Grocery store
August 2 Saturday
August 3 Sunday
Departures
POSSIBLE Internship Projects – Labs - these were from 2012 and they MAY BE CHANGED
Prof Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy, Food Science: Development of a nutrient enhanced fruit snack MS2-010
Prof Jacqueline Bede/Alberto Prado Farias Plant Science: Chemical ecology of cycad-feeding butterflies: sexual dimorphism and toxicity R2-004
Prof Stan Kubow,/ Dr Kebba Sabally School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition: Specific objectives: Generation of HCAs from beef patties at high temperatures ,
Optimization of SPE extraction of HCA from beef patties, Quantization of HCAs extracted from beef patties using SPE MS2-010
Prof Viacheslav Adamchuk Collecting Electrical conductivity profiles and VIS/NIR soil spectra MS1-63
Prof Will Hendershot / Dr Dina Schwertfeger Internships at McGill University’s Environmental Chemistry Laboratory allow students hands-on experience in
performing trace metal ecotoxicological assays and soil analyses. Under the supervision of Hélène Lalande, interns will work alongside McGill graduate students. In
addition to learning state-of-the-art techniques, as well as routine analytical methods, interns will become familiar with our Quality Assurance/Quality Control
program and good laboratory practice (GLP).
Prof Jaswinder Singh / Dr Kashmir Singh: Planting, DNA extraction and molecular analysis of oat cultivars to assess molecular diversity
Prof Suha Jabaji They will learn Quantitative PCR methods using different biological samples. Fungi, bacteria. Also, they may help in soil dilution methods for Cfu
counts as well as microscopic methods, staining of plant roots and detection of mycorrhizal fungi
Prof Vijaya Raghavan The students will be working on the post harvest technology related project. In particular they will be conducting experiments to evaluate the
quality of fresh produce for extending shelf life using different packaging material. The outcome can help in reducing losses in the post harvest chain.
Prof Roger Cue looking at the growth of dairy heifers, using data recorded by Valacta. The project would be to lean to program, using the SAS programming
language, to verify the data collected (60,000 animals and some 300,000 heifer weight measurements from Quebec), to look at growth from birth to first calving in
the main dairy breeds in Quebec (Holstein, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Jersey and Canadienne).
Prof David Zadworny, Animal Science: The objective will be to measure the tissue distribution of FABP6 in chicken tissues at the protein (western blotting) and
mRNA level (Q-PCR) MS1-123