Dr. Karen Tanino

Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences · University of Saskatchewan · company speakers →

Dr. Karen Tanino is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan. A past president of the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science, she has authored more than 140 refereed research papers, books, and book chapters, and currently supervises a team of ten graduate students and research associates. Dr. Tanino founded the Prairie Horticulture Certificate Program and oversees the Gardenline and the Gardening at USask offices. Deeply committed to improving food security, she chaired the first and second Saskatchewan Food Summits, led the Northern Food Security Thematic Network under the University of the Arctic, and contributed early leadership to the Prairie Fresh initiative through the Hort2020 workshop. In 2022, she was recognized as one of the seven most influential women in Canadian agriculture.

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