The Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS)
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Rubicon for Sjon Hartman
Sjon Hartman from the University Utrecht is on of the 16 starting science talents that received the Rubicon. For two years he will join the Gibbs Lab of the University of Birmingham, UK. Research by [...]
ERC Starting Grants for Marnix Medema and Daan Swarts
Marnix Medema (left) and Daan Swarts were awarded the ERC Starting Grant and will receive 1,5 million euros from the European Research Council. In his project “DECIPHER” Medema will unravel the chemical language that bacteria [...]
Juliane Teapal started as Education Coordinator for EPS
Juliane Teapal joined the EPS-team on the 1st of August. From now on she will take care of the organization of courses, summer schools and meetings. Further she will be responsible for the newsletter [...]
Saskia van Wees appointed as professor of Hormonal regulation of plant defense at Utrecht University
Saskia van Wees was appointed as professor of Hormonal regulation of plant defense at Utrecht University on 1 March of this year. Her research focuses on plants’ defense signaling in their interaction with various types [...]
Upcoming Courses & Meetings
Defenses
- Identification and inheritance of quantitative resistance against Verticillium dahliae in tomato
- Tuesday, October 20, 2020
PhD candidate: Jasper Vermeulen
, - Evolution of nitrogen-fixing root nodules; Analysis of conserved signalling pathways in Legumes and Parasponia
- Wednesday, October 21, 2020
PhD candidate: Luuk Rutten
, - Potato wart disease – Identification of resistance genes in the breeding genepool
- Thursday, October 22, 2020
PhD candidate : Charlotte Prodhomme
, - Helminth glycan biosynthesis in plants
- Friday, October 23, 2020
PhD candidate: Kim van Noort
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