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Outstanding young scientist award

Dr Syama Chatterton obtained a PhD from Simon Fraser University under the direction of Zamir Punja. Her research focused on the mechanisms involved in the biological control of fusarium root rot of greenhouse cucumbers by the fungal antagonist Clonostachys rosea. She joined Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB as the pulse/legume forage pathologist in July 2011. In the short time as a research scientist at AAFC, Dr Chatterton has been the principal investigator on 11 projects from competitive funding calls, and contributed to an additional 12 research projects. She has a highly productive record, having authored or co-authored 21 refereed journal articles, 6 cultivar descriptions, 2 book chapters, and presented more than 45 conference papers. Dr Chatterton is an internationally recognized leader in research on aphanomyces root rot of pea. She was the first to identify that aphanomyces root rot was present in Alberta, and demonstrated that the disease was widespread and devastating on both pea and lentil crops across the Canadian prairies. She led research teams that described the oomycete microbiome associated with diseased pea Syama Chatterton