March is in the name of conferences and open positions! Check all of them listed below to avoid missing anything relevant for you! PlantLink extended the deadline for mentorship program applications. PhD students and postdocs can sign up until the 8th of March! Another Fascination of Plants Day will take place…
Read more
The Good Food Institute (GFI) Europe is a global nonprofit which aims to advance plant-based, cultivated meat and fermentation-made foods – making sure these more sustainable foods can meet conventional meat, eggs and dairy on taste, price and convenience. To…
Read more
Sweden Food Arena, which currently has more than 30 members from across the food supply chain, released a fascinating analysis entitled “The Plant-based food chain’s need for investment in innovation and research 2022”. The growing demand for plant-based diets, both…
Read more
2023 starts in a really busy way! PlantLink released a new round of Industrial Mentorship Program for PhD students and postdocs and is ready to match passionate young researchers with innovative companies in the region! For MSc students, there is ELLS Plant Health Grand Challenges competition and…
Read more
Kenneth Fredlund passed away on the 18th of January, 2023, after some time of progressive illness. Kenneth studied biology at Lund and completed an excellent PhD on respiratory processes in the Department of Plant Physiology at Lund University in 1996….
Read more
During 29 November we celebrated that it was exactly 100 years since the young botanist Göte Turesson coined a concept that he called the “ecotype”. At that time, it had passed 60 years since Charles Darwin buried the idea that…
Read more
Winter is finally here! Before drifting into a peaceful Christmas mood, keep an eye on the new courses, conferences, and events happening in January, February and early March. The deadlines are just around the corner! Big congratulations go to all the successful applicants of VR and Formas grants as well as the Carl Trygger Foundation. A special…
Read more
We congratulate all researchers of Lund University and SLU Alnarp that received funding for plant and food-related research projects. In total, both institutions in these particular fields received 49.5 M SEK from VR and 56 M SEK from Formas….
Read more