Brian Whipker, PhD., Cannabis Insights: Diagnosing Nutrient Disorders

October 2023

Brian Whipker has been a Professor at NC State University for over 30 years specializing in plant nutrition, plant growth regulators, and disorder diagnostics. He has published >120 scientific papers and >300 grower articles during his career. He co-created an online grower resource fertdirtandsquirt.com which focuses on nutrient monitoring and nutrient standards. He also co-authored the book Nutrient Deficiencies in Bedding Plants: A Pictorial Guide for Identification and Correction. The culmination of his plant growth regulator research is emphasized in the Plant Growth Regulator Guide for Annuals published by Fine America/GrowerTalks. His current focus is to provide scientifically-based grower information about plant leaf tissue analysis standards and plant nutrition.

Learn more by registering for our webinar at the link below.

Previous Webinars

Godfrey Pearlson, PHD.

10 October 2024, 1:00PM MST

Cannabis and driving: knowns and known unknowns

Dr. Pearlson’s medical training was at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Following internship he completed a graduate degree in philosophy at Columbia University in New York and was then successively a resident, postdoctoral fellow and faculty member at Johns Hopkins […]

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Suman Chandra, MPhil, PhD.

18 September 2024, 11:AM MST

Cannabis: An Old Plant with New Horizons, Botany and Biomass Production for the Drug Development

Dr. Chandra earned his M.Phil. degree in Environmental Plant Physiology and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from The High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Center, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), India. From 1992 to 2000, […]

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Carrie Cuttler, PHD.

12 September 2024, 1:00PM MST

Chronic and Acute Effects of High Potency Cannabis Flower and Concentrates on Cognition

Dr. Carrie Cuttler received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and subsequently conducted a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of […]

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Dmitry Kurouski, PhD

Raman spectroscopy-assisted diagnosis of cannabis physiological differences

Dmitry Kurouski earned his MS in Biochemistry from Belarusian State University, Belarus and PhD (Distinguished Dissertation) in Analytical Chemistry from SUNY Albany, NY, USA. After a Postdoc in the laboratory of Professor Richard P. Van Duyne at Northwestern University, Dr Kurouski joined BoehringerIngelheim Pharmaceuticals, where he worked […]

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Elise Weerts, Ph.D.

Interactions of Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol

July 11, 2024, 1:00 PM

Dr. Weerts is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and core faculty in the preclinical Division of Behavioral Biology (DBB) the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU) for human clinical and laboratory research.  She has […]

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Felipe Sarmiento Salazar, PhD

Flowering modulation in Cannabis sp. by night
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June 19, 2024 11:00AM MT

Dr. Felipe Sarmiento Salazar is a biologist graduated from the Universidad de los Andes, doctor in Biology from the University of Freiburg and professor at the Department of Biology of the National University of Colombia since 2016. Professor Sarmiento has extensive experience in […]

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