Events

Seminars, workshops and events (number of participants in brackets)

2011

• PlantLink Kick-off, 27 September in Alnarp (107)
• Seminar series on Next-Generation Sequencing, 2011-12 (3 times; ca 100)

 2012

• ’Växtkemi istället för petrokemi’, joint seminar day with TC4F, 10 May (80)
• Fascination of Plants Day, 18 May (ca 100 and ca 1400 visitors on Facebook event page)
• Data dissemination in the era of “Big-Data”, Scott Edmunds (Editor GigaScience), 22 May in Alnarp
• Scandinavian Plant Proteomics Day together with Umeå Plant Science Center and KBC, Umeå University, 20 September in Umeå
• PlantLink Day, 24 September in Lund (80)
• The Future of Plant Biotechnology in Europe – emerging technologies and policy making, together with Mistra Biotech, 7 November in Alnarp (105)

2013

• From farm to fork – plant molecular breeding and post-harvest research in the 21st century, together with Food Technology at LU and Department of Plant Breeding at SLU Alnarp, 21 March in Lund (80)
• Fascination of Plants Day,18 May in Lund (100s)
• Perenniation: Solutions To Farming‘s Annual Problems, Jerry Glover, 27 May in Alnarp (30)
• Workshop with PlantLink researchers and human geographers at Lund University, 28 May in Lund (16)
• IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) pre-workshop meetings, , together with SLU Global, 27-28 August in Alnarp (ca 30)
• PlantLink Day, 25 September in Alnarp (80)
• A never ending battle – understanding resistance biology for sustainable agriculture, together with Mistra Biotech, 10 October in Alnarp (60)
• Swedish Plant Science Centers‘ symposia together with UPSC and Linnéan Plant Science Center, 18 – 19 November in Uppsala (80)

2014

• Workshop on Plant Synthetic Biology, together with CPSC, 25 February in Copenhagen (ca 40)
• PlantLink server Day – where biology meets informatics, 28 February in Lund (ca 30)
• Collection of Plant Genetic Resources – Heritage of the Humankind, Igor Loskutov, Vavilov Institute, 10 April in Lund (20)
• GenEthics – a discussion on GM crops, organized by the Alnarp Student Union, 21 May in Lund (80)
• Participated in Alnarpsdagen, 25 May in Alnarp
• MSc course in Plant Molecular Breeding to meet the challenges of climate change. 7-18 July in Tulln, Austria
• PhD course: Methods and models for plant genomic prediction and selection in plant breeding, 8-11 September in Alnarp
• PlantLink Day, 16 September in Lund (78)
• Workshop on Technical Platforms for Plant Research ,together with CPSC, 1 December in Lund (45)
• 1^st Industrial mentor program, kick-off 1 December in Lund (11)

2015

• Workshop on Genomic Selection with SLU researchers and industry representatives, 16 April in Alnarp (44)
• Fascination of Plants Day, 23 May, in Lund (100s)
• Swedish Plant Science Centers‘ symposia together with UPSC and Linnéan Plant Science Center, 13 August in Stockholm (ca 30)
• ELLS MSc Summer course “Genetic resources in crop breeding”, 17-28 August in Alnarp (33)
• PlantLink Day, 1 October in Alnarp (80)

 2016

• Introductory course to Unix, together with NBIS, 18-20 April in Lund (20, max number)
• Joint workshop on plant interactions, together with Copenhagen Plant Science Center, 3 May, in Copenhagen (70)
• 2^nd round of PlantLink Industrial Mentorship, first meeting 8 April, in Lund (16)
• „Meet Tomorrow’s Plant Researchers – PhDs and Post Docs in the PlantLink Industrial Mentorship Program at Lund University and SLU Alnarp“ seminar with students in the PlantLink Industrial Mentorship Program at Borgeby Fältdagar, 30 June (30)
• ELLS MSc summer course “New plant breeding technologies”, 21-27 August in Copenhagen (31)
• PhD course “Plant protection biology” 5-16 September in Alnarp
• PlantLink Day, 6 October in Lund (74)
• Biotron inauguration seminar “Here comes the sun!”, 8 November in Alnarp (82)
• Introductory course in UNIX, together with NBIS and GENECO, 9-11 November in Lund (20, max number)

2017

• Study visit to MAXIV and ESS, together with Copenhagen Plant Science Center, 8 February in Lund (50)
• Fascination of Plants Day, 20 May in Lund Botanical Gardens
• 3^rd round of PlantLink Industrial Mentorship, first meeting 30 June visiting Malmö University Open Lab and Medeon in Malmö (14)
• Presentations of PlantLink during SEB Gothenburg conference in July
• Presentations of PlantLink SPPS conference in August
• ELLS MSc summer course „Analysis and utilization of genomic diversity for plant breeding“, 6-12 August in Hohenheim, Germany (29)
• New PlantLink homepage, August
• PlantLink Day, 4 October in Alnarp (77)
• Introductory course in UNIX, together with NBIS and GENECO, 20-22 November in Lund (20, max number)

2018

• Meeting: “Promoting Plant Research in Sweden“, 15-16 March 2018, Lund (79)
• PhD course in Plant Imaging Techniques, 14-18 May, 2018 (9)
• NOVA PhD course “Phenotyping Technologies in Plant-environment Interactions – Integrated Analysis of Omics Data”, 11-15 June in Alnarp (21)
• ELLS Master‘s student summer course „Genomics for Plant Breeding and Biotechnology “, 19-25 August in Warsaw, Poland
• MSc/PhD course „Plant Protection Biology “, 20-31 August in Alnarp (28)
• Official kickoff of Plant Biologicals Network (PBN), 5 September, in Copenhagen
• PlantLink Day, 12 September in Lund (73)
• NordPlant kick-off , 24-25 October in Helsinki (60)
• Launch of NordPlant newsletter, December

 2019

• 4^th round of PlantLink Industrial Mentorship program, first meeting 18 January (10)
• Job Fair for Danish and Swedish PhDs and Post Docs, 28 February-1 March in Ystad (70)
• Workshop on phenotyping standards, 29-30 April in Lund (20)
• Fascination of Plants Day, 25 May in Lund Botanical Gardens
• NordPlant mingle during NPPN field day, 25 June in Alnarp
• ELLS Summer School for bachelor students „Green Genetics“, 26-30 August, at Wageningen University (1)
• PlantLink Day, 3 October in Alnarp (101)
• “Tech talks for plant phenotyping in the Nordic countries“ – 1^st NordPlant annual meeting, 20 November in Lund.(>80)
• PhD course „Microscopy methods in biological research“ 9-13 December, in Alnarp and Lund. (6)

2020

• PlantLink’s Open Strategic network meeting, 13 March. (36)
• PhD course „Accelerating climate resilient plant breeding by applying –omics and artificial intelligence“, 20-24 April, in Alnarp. (34)
• Webinar „ Healthier plants with the help of Biologicals“ as part of UN’s International Year of Plant Health, 19 May. (>150)
• MSc/PhD-course “Plant Protection Biology to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals”, August 3 – 14, Alnarp/online. (42)
• Webinar “Plant Biotechnology in sub-Saharan Africa – technology transfer and new policies” 23-24 September (40)
• Online PlantLink Day, 14 October. (104)
• Book circle + meet the author of Africa’s Gene Revolution, 3 December online (12)
• PhD course: “Microscopy methods in biological research” 7-11 December in Lund (6)