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Dr. Charlotte Gommers (WUR) "A cry for green light sensing in plants"  Plants use photoreceptors to see the spectral distribution of their light surroundings. This information is essential to optimize light capture and fuel photosynthesis. Although we are well familiar with the photoreceptors for red and blue light, it remains unknown how plants detect green light. In this project, we aim to discover the photoreceptor for green light, and investigate how green light sensing helps plants to optimize their growth. Dr. Rashmi Sasidharan & prof. dr. Jian Xu (UU/RU) "All for one and one for all: Mapping the site of ethylene action [...]

The TKI graduate programme Green Top Sectors offers MSc students in the Plant Sciences the opportunity to write and submit their own PhD proposals with a research group of their own choice. A selection committee selected 4 MSc students, 3 from EPS and one from WASS (Iris de Leeuw) , whose projects were awarded with a fellowship. In addition, Wageningen UR selected another 2 EPS proposals for funding. Granted proposals TKI Graduate School Green Top Sectors call: Kevin Peek, UvA (coach Dr. Maike Stam) - Stabilizing unstable traits: elucidating the mechanisms underlying non-mendelian segregation in crops Sarah Kalisvaart, WUR (coach [...]

Congratulation to Scott Hayes. His project " Tracking Transcription Factor Function" was chosen to be awarded with the XS category pf the Open Competition Domain Science. This category  emphatically strives to encourage curiosity-driven and bold research involving a relatively quick analysis of a promising idea. For more information check out the NWO website.

The Amsterdam Science Park Study Group is a local community of life scientists that share their expertise, organize training and promote good practices in data-related topics such as data analysis, programming and data management. Engaging early-career researchers through peer-to-peer mentoring and training is a valuable approach to foster a cultural change toward a more Open Science. The proposal of  J. Goedhardt and his team members Marc Galland, Like Fokkens and Stacy Shinneman aims to expand our current activities and to upscale our community to increase the impact of the Amsterdam Science Park Study Group on Open Science practices in the [...]

In October, the board of NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences awarded funding to 6 projects within the Open Technology Programme and 3 projects within Smart Industry 2020. Salma Balazadeh, Víctor Carrión, and Jos Raaijmakers, biologists at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), have successfully applied and got awarded 730.000 euros. More detailed information can you find on the NWO site.

André Bertran and Krešimir Šola will be the new Chair and secretary of the EPS postdoc council. We wish you a lot of fun while organizing new events. If you would like to become a member or would like to contact the EPS postdoc council please send them an email. A big thank you to Tanya Radoeva and Chrysa Pantazopoulou for setting up the postdoc council and organizing plenty of great events.