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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” will Medema 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 [...]
EMBO welcomes newly elected member Dolf Weijers
EMBO, the international European Molecular Biology Organization in Heidelberg, Germany, has elected Prof. Dolf Weijers (Wageningen UR) as one of its new members. The life-long membership is bestowed upon scientists in recognition of their remarkable [...]
Upcoming Courses & Meetings
Defenses
- RxLR and CRN effectors of the spinach downy mildew Peronospora effusa and their interacting plant proteins
- Wednesday, September 23, 2020
PhD candidate : Manon Neilen
, - Ecological relevance of fungal volatiles for plant growth and defence
- Friday, October 16, 2020
PhD candidate: Kay Moisan
, - 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
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