The Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS)
This guide, drawn up by several organizations (VSNU, PNN, PostdocNL, trade unions and De Jonge Akademie), can serve as a starting point to facilitate discussions between researchers and research institutions.
The spread of Covid-19 has rapidly and strongly impacted societies all over the world. The EPS PhD Council decided to release a survey in order to evaluate the impact of the resulting crisis on the content and progress of the project of the EPS PhD students. To assess which were the main concerns among PhD students and see if we could help them by solving some questions and/or issues they could have, we asked them to anonymously fill out a survey of 13 questions. The survey was opened the 20th of May 2020 and was closed nine days later, on [...]
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Check out how your colleagues are adjusting to their new work environment or find tips on how to work well at home on the EPS @ Work page, which is now online!
The American Society of Plant Biologists launched a new virtual seminar series via the online community, Plantae. Each seminar features two speakers and you can either watch the livestream or the recorded session.
Jorge Navarro-Muñoz, former postdoc in the WUR Bioinformatics Group, has won the University Fund Wageningen Research Award 2020 for his paper “A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity”.
Katharina Hanika, a PhD candidate at Plant Breeding & Phytopathology at Wageningen University & Research, won the “Dance your PhD” contest in the category Biology, organized by Science and AAAS.
The Initiative for Science in Europe invites researchers, students, research organisations, and the civil society to sign the petition for a more ambitious budget allocation to the next Research Framework Programme, Horizon Europe.
A workshop for young scientists who have limited or no background in Metabolomics. Deadline for registration is 1st of October 2019.
It has taken some time, but we are happy to announce that EPS now has its very own Postdoc Council. As EPS Postdoc Council we aim to bring the EPS postdoc community together for exchanging ideas and discussing problems. Furthermore, we aim to organize meetings and workshops benefitting the professional development and career of postdocs. We also will be organizing the EPS Flying Seminars to be held in Wageningen, Utrecht and Amsterdam, so let us know if you have any suggestions for interesting speakers. To enable us to cater for all the EPS postdocs as well as for you to [...]
