Call for EPS 3rd year PhD interviews
Susan Urbanus2025-03-25T17:56:27+01:00Interested in having your personal EPS 3rd PhD interview?
EPS Company visit to Botany in Horst – 22 January
Susan Urbanus2025-01-06T14:47:05+01:00Join us for a company visit to the Botany group in Horst, Limburg! (Sign up HERE!) Botany is a group of research companies that conduct research on a contract basis for the industry. Member companies each have their own area of expertise, such as indoor (Botany) and outdoor growing (Exploras), vertical farming (Brightbox), medicinal cultivation (Innexo), and seed solutions (Innoveins). These companies are spread over locations in Horst and the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo. Botany conducts R&D in the areas of plant physiology, disease resistance, biostimulants, growth substrates and systems, and more. This visit on the afternoon of 22nd of January [...]
WUR Starter Grant for de Keijzer en Romanwski
Juliane Teapal2024-12-16T16:28:48+01:00WUR Starter Grant for de Keijzer en Romanwski Jeroen de Keijzer and Andres Romanwski have obtained a WUR starter Grant to develop the project: Environmental modulation of protein mobility in land plants. Short summary: Much like commuters between cities, proteins can move from one cell to another. One way in which intercellular ‘commuting’ is achieved is through cytoplasmic bridges called plasmodesmata (PD). PD span cell walls, effectively creating a link between the cytoplasm of two adjacent cells. How this dynamic process is affected by environmental factors is still largely unexplored. In this joint project between the Romanowski and the De Keijzer groups, we want [...]
NWO VENI grant for Kira Tiedge
Juliane Teapal2024-12-16T16:21:39+01:00NWO VENI grant for Kira Tiedge Designing crops for a salty future Dr. K.J. Tiedge (V), University of Groningen Around the globe, agricultural areas are endangered by an increase of salts in the soil. This salinization reduces the yield and nutritional quality of crops grown in these areas, which poses a serious threat to our food supply. This project investigates how metabolic substances in plants can be used to increase the resistance of important crops to salinization. The results will help to develop new crop varieties that can withstand current and future climate-driven stressors to enable sustainable crop production and [...]
Bregje Wertheim appointed as chair of Laboratory of Entomology
Juliane Teapal2024-12-16T16:16:41+01:00As of 1 September, research associate Bregje Wertheim has been appointed Professor holding a Chair of the Laboratory of Entomology at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). She will be the successor of Professor Marcel Dicke, who is retiring at the end of 2024. Wertheim studied biology at Leiden University, where she became fascinated by the many traits and strategies that insects have developed to survive. Wertheim will further develop insect research and education in Wageningen. And she can’t wait: “I look forward to working with the various academics at WUR. WUR has very good researchers and lecturers, with wide-ranging areas [...]
Jie Hu (NIOO) new secretary of the EPS postdoc council
Juliane Teapal2024-08-27T11:05:30+01:00Jie Hu is the new secretary of the EPS postdoc council. She takes over the function of Cloe Villard who has been the secretary of the council for the past two years. Jie works as a postdoc at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the Microbial Ecology Department . She is keen to explore the influence of plant domestication on the taxonomic and functional diversification of the root microbiome, particularly through the analysis of root exudates. This involves identifying ‘missing’ plant microbes, deciphering their genomes, and uncovering biosynthetic genes from wild plants and their herbarium material. A big thank [...]
Rene Geurts (WUR) and Corne Pieterse (UU) are elected as EMBO member
Juliane Teapal2024-08-20T14:51:02+01:00EMBO members are elected for the significant contributions the made in their research areas. The membership is regarded as an honor and, like the Nobel Prizes, researchers can only be nominated by their peers. Geurts’ election as an EMBO member recognises his research on symbiosis between bacteria and plants, in which bacteria extract nitrogen from the air and deliver it to plants [More information]. Pieterse’s research focuses on how plants defend themselves against harmful microbes and insects. His team maps out the plant's defense system at a molecular level. This knowledge can help scientists develop stronger crops that need fewer [...]
Open Competition Domain Science-M grant for Michael Nodine (WUR)
Juliane Teapal2024-08-08T11:06:52+01:00Congratulations to Michael Nodine for receiving the grant for the Open Competition Domain Science-M programme of NWO. M-grants are intended for innovative, high-quality, fundamental research and/or studies involving matters of scientific urgency. Small RNA inheritance in plants: from molecules to mechanisms Dr Michael Nodine (Wageningen University & Research) Small RNAs are ideal molecules for parents to use to control the initial growth of their offspring as well influence their future behavior. Although this is being increasingly recognized in animals, hardly anything is known about small RNA inheritance in plants in which there is great potential for agricultural improvement. This research [...]
Emilyn Matsumura (WUR) receives NWO grant for Open Technology programme
Juliane Teapal2024-08-20T14:51:52+01:00Matsumura (Virology) and co-applicant D'Adamo (Bio Process Engineering) receive funding for their grant proposal “Plug & Play”: Combining plant virus-derived VLPs and microalgae production platform towards a toolkit for biotechnological applications. The NWO Open Technology Programme provides funding for application-oriented technical-scientific research that is free and unrestricted and is not hindered by disciplinary boundaries. “Plug & Play”: Combining plant virus-derived VLPs and microalgae production platform towards a toolkit for biotechnological applications. Promoting human quality of life not only demands rapid pharmaceutical measures for human diseases, but also requires developing novel therapeutics and alternative production and delivery approaches. Virus-like particles (VLPs) [...]