Collin Juurakko, Founder & CEO of Advanced Agriscience

S2 E7 ADVANCED AGRISCIENCE

How do you stop frost formation with bacteria? In this latest episode of Nventure's Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, we dive into more mind-bending breakthroughs in Canadian agricultural biotech. Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Collin Juurakko, PhD, Founder and CEO of Advanced Agriscience, as co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar explore the origins and applications of biological frost disruption and how it could potentially stabilize vast swathes of global agriculture.

Resources and links

• Background study on Bacterial Ice Nucleation: A Factor in Frost Injury to Plants (1982)
• Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars (Leon Jaroff, TIME, 1986)
• Deborah Henderson (Director, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langley, British Columbia)
• Virginia Walker’s Lab at Queen’s University (Department of Biology)
• Steve Lindow (University of California, Berkeley – Plant and Microbial Biology)
• Entrepreneurs First start-up accelerator (Toronto)
• Bioenterprise Innovation Advisors (including Mike Manion)
• Sydenham, Ontario (Wikipedia)
• B Corp certification
• Cryopreservation

Acknowledgments

The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to Daniela Scoppa, Heather Cannings and John Hayden. For more information on our podcast, including co-host biographies, click here.

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