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- Sign up for ESS/MaxIV joint study visit with CPSC, 8 February!
- Sandeep is the new PlantLink server administrator
- The biotron is inaugurated! Here are the presentations from 8th of November
- Plenty of grant money to plant research in the region
- Post doc in Plant Pathology: can strawberry cope with multiple enemies? at SLU Alnarp
- NOVA PhD course: Adaptation and Resilience in Plant Breeding, 4 ECTS, 11-16 June 2017 in Umeå, Sweden
- No Food-KIC in the Öresund region
- Seasonal greetings!
Sign up for ESS/Max joint study visit with CPSC, 8 February!
Please indicate your interest here. Limited space! We will confirm your in the beginning of January.
Preliminary program here.
Sandeep is the new PlantLink server administrator
As from the 1st of January Jakob will no longer work for us as the PlantLink Bioinformatician. Therefore Sandeep, our former bioinformatician, will step in as administrator for the PlantLink server.
Plenty grant money to plant research in the region
More than 17 plant related grants have been awarded the last month in the region. Congratulations! Here is the list
The biotron is inaugurated! Here are the presentations from 8th of November
The new Biotron at SLU Alnarp was inaugurated on the 7-8 November. On 8th of November PlantLink hosted a seminar day with many researchers and over 80 participants.
Some of the presentations are now available online (follow the links!). During this day Morten Lillemo (NMBU) presented a new “Phenomics infrastructure Norway”. Roland Pieruschka (Forschungszentrum Jülich) held a workshop on the exciting development around “EMPHASIS – Integrating the European plant phenotyping community” which is now on the ESFRI roadmap.
We then had a section on the influence by light by Eva Rosenqvist (University of Copenhagen; “LED for plant production and research – what happens in Denmark?”), Karl-Johan Bergstrand (SLU; “Light in Horticulture-from no control to full control”) and Johan Lindqvist (Heliospectra; “Lighting control strategies for plant research and horticulture applications”).
Thereafter we got to listen to Rikke Bagger Jørgensen (DTU) research on the effect on plant quality in a changing climate (”Quality and yield of crop plants in the future climate – results from a Danish phytotron”).
After the lunch break a number of plant phenotyping facilities were presented by Roland Pieruschka (Forschungszentrum Jülich; “Quantitative information about plants in a heterogeneous environment – phenotyping from lab to field”), Kristiina Himanen (University of Helsinki; “Genomic and phenomic screens for a selected Arabidopsis mutant collection”) and Dominik Grosskinsky (University of Copenhagen; “PhenoLab – An automated high-throughput indoor phenotyping facility at Copenhagen University”).
A number of studies from the field was presented after that by Anders Lindroth (LU) and Maria Ernfors (SLU) about “SITES- a research infrastructure for ecosystem science”, Kristin Piiki (SLU; ”A pilot study of potato blight detection by remote sensing from drones”) and Kibrom Abreha (SLU; “Leaf apoplast proteome analysis of potato grown in field and greenhouse conditions”) as well as forestry by Johanna Witzell (SLU; “There and back again – how to use Biotron for forest pathology research”).
Finally, Håkan Wallander (LU) presented his research in “Microbial processes and carbon dynamics in a natural gradient in soil temperature in Iceland”.
Media coverage from the new Biotron from Sydsvenskan and SVT.
Post doc in Plant Pathology: can strawberry cope with multiple enemies? at SLU Alnarp
More about this post doc position here. Deadline 27 Dec.
NOVA PhD course: Adaptation and Resilience in Plant Breeding, 4 ECTS, 11-16 June 2017 in Umeå, Sweden
This course is organised by Prof. Rodomiro Ortiz, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). More information here.
No Food-KIC in the Öresund region
The FoodNexus consortia with strong support from the Öresund region was not successful in its bid for an European Food-KIC, which instead was awarded to a consortia led by Technical University of Munichand Cambridge University among others. More information here.
Seasonal greetings!
This is the last PlantLink newsletter for 2016. See you in 2017!