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In memoriam – Jacques Vervoort
Sadly, on Monday 19 July 2021 prof. dr. J.J.M. (Jacques) Vervoort passed away at the age of 66. It is hard to comprehend that Jacques is no longer with us. After a long career at [...]
EMBO postdoctoral fellowship for Sjors van der Horst
A prestigious two-year EMBO postdoctoral fellowship was awarded to Sjors van der Horst of the Molecular Plant Physiology group at Utrecht University. Sjors will join the lab of Prof. Julia Bailey-Serres at the University of [...]
2 Plant Science NWO ENW-M projects awarded
Functional dissection of transcription factor phase separation in plant hormone response Dr. Jan Willem Borst (WUR) Auxin transcription factors are involved in the regulation of plant growth and these proteins contain intrinsically disordered domains. These [...]
3 Projects awarded in EPS-WU Young Tenure Track call
Awarded projects: Back to the wild: Exploiting immune receptor diversity in wild relatives to improve Brassica crop resistance - Dr. Klaas Bouwmeester (WU - Biosystematics) Xanthomonas black rot is one of the most destructive diseases [...]
Upcoming Courses & Meetings
Defenses
- Battle between insect eggs and host plants. Ecology and evoluation of pierid egg-induced responses in Brassicaceae
- Monday, October 4, 2021
Online 13:30
, - Unravelling the cap-snatching mechanism of cytoplasmic replicating negative-stranded RNA viruses
- Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Online 11.00
, - Evaluation of azadirachtin used to protect plants against arthropod pests
- Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Online 13:30
, - A computational study of genomic rearrangements in plants
- Tuesday, November 2, 2021
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