Dr. Simren Brar is Corporate Relations Manager, Agrifood and Natural Resources, at Genome BC. She brings several years of experience working in forestry and the cannabis sector. Simren believes in developing partnerships and collaborations with academia, government, and industry to foster the development and implementation of genomic tools that help solve challenges facing the forestry and cannabis sectors.
Before joining Genome BC, Simren worked as a research scientist at Canopy Growth Corporation, where she led the pathology research program and pathology diagnostic lab. Simren holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in Forest Sciences, specializing in plant pathology. She completed her Ph.D. in genetics at Massey University in New Zealand. Her graduate research focused on landscape and population genetics of plant pathogens.
