Research Team
Gurcharn Brar Principal Investigator
I grew up in Punjab, India’s “breadbasket,” where I completed a B.Sc. in agriculture (honours in crop protection) at Punjab Agricultural University. In 2012, I moved to Canada’s breadbasket, Saskatchewan, and completed my M.Sc. and PhD in wheat genetics and breeding at the University of Saskatchewan. In January 2020, I joined the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. In January 2024, I took up a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta.