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Tijs Ketelaar and Otto van den Linden are part of a consortia that has been awarded funding within the KIC call Aquatic food production
SeaSEEDS - Seaweed Attachment onto Substrates and Economic Embedding into Dutch Society Seaweeds are a promising though barely exploited source of biomass and proteins. Small scale cultivation trials show that large and variable detachment of seaweeds [...]
Researcher of Biosystematics (WUR) publish in Nature Genetics
Researcher of Keygene and the Biosystematics group at the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) together with the Japanese breeding company Takii and New Zealand’s Plant & Food Research and Lincoln University discovered a gene that [...]
EPS Scientist Pingtao Ding receives the ERC Starting Grant
Assistant Professor of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) Pingtao Ding has received the European Research Council Starting Grant. The grant of 2,4 million € will be used to understand the regulatory mechanism of key [...]
Sjon Hartman starts as a Junior Professor in Plant Environmental Signalling & Development at the University of Freiburg
Sjon Hartman will start as a Junior Professor (tenure track) at the biology department of the University of Freiburg. Last year he was postdoctoral Rubicon fellow at the Daniel Gibbs lab of the University of [...]
Upcoming Courses & Meetings
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- The role of FRUITFULL-like genes in the tomato flowering regulatory network
- Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Xiaobing Jiang
, - Epigenetic regulation of transcription and genome evolution in Verticillium dahliae
- Friday, March 11, 2022
Martin Kramer
, - Down to the roots: Plant-mediated interactions between shoot- and root-feeding insect herbivores
- Friday, April 8, 2022
Peter Karssemeijer
, - Exploring diverse aspects of root-associated microbiome
- Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Zhichun Yan
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