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EPS Company visit to Botany in Horst – 22 January
Join 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 [...]
WUR Starter Grant for de Keijzer en Romanwski
WUR 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, [...]
NWO VENI grant for Kira Tiedge
NWO 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 [...]
Bregje Wertheim appointed as chair of Laboratory of Entomology
As 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, [...]
Jie Hu (NIOO) new secretary of the EPS postdoc council
Jie 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 [...]
Rene Geurts (WUR) and Corne Pieterse (UU) are elected as EMBO member
EMBO 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’ [...]
Open Competition Domain Science-M grant for Michael Nodine (WUR)
Congratulations 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 [...]
Emilyn Matsumura (WUR) receives NWO grant for Open Technology programme
Matsumura (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 [...]
Heineken Young Scientists Award for Casper van der Kooi
In recognition of outstanding research in the field of Natural Sciences, Dr. Casper van der Kooi will receive the Heineken Young Scientists Award. Van der Kooi studies how flowers and animals such as butterflies get their colors [...]
Gert Kema awarded KNPV Prize 2024 for research on sustainable crop protection
Researcher Gert Kema has been awarded the 2024 KNPV Prize by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Plantenziektekundige Vereniging (KNPV). The prize is awarded to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of resilient [...]
Two EPS members are awarded the NWO Open Competition Domain Science – XS
Digging up hidden treasures for novel antibiotics Dr. S. (Sandra) Irmisch (Universiteit Leiden) New antibiotics and medicines counteracting antibiotic resistance are urgently needed. However, few new antibiotic discoveries are being made from microorganisms. Plants produce [...]
ERC Advanced Grant for Roberta Croce
Photosynthesis is necessary to sustain life on earth, but it is very inefficient. Biophysicist Roberta Croce receives an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant for her research into improving photosynthesis. Currently, less than one percent [...]
NWO Open Technology Programme funding for Jan van Kan (WUR)
The Open Technology Programme provides funding for application-oriented technical-scientific research that is free and unrestricted and is not hindered by disciplinary boundaries. The programme offers companies and other organisations an accessible way to participate in [...]
Prestigious grant for research into plant tactile sense
The gravitation programme awarded 22,5 millions to the consortium van GreenTE: Green Tissue Engineering. This programme supports a partnership between the best researchers from the Netherlands in one or more disciplines All living organisms are subject to [...]
Why have a 3rd year PhD interview and join the meet-up?
In summer 2024 the interviews with a EPS theme coordinator were held again for the 3rd year PhD candidates. Connected to these interviews there was also an opportunity to exchange PhD & writing experiences with [...]
2nd year PhD meet-up – Resilience & Motivation in the PhD programme
Interested in exploring ways to increase your professional and personal resilience and (approximately) a 2nd year PhD candidate? Then please check the details for the upcoming 2nd year PhD meet-up.
Bart Schimmel new chair of the postdoc council
Bart Schimmel (left), Utrecht University, is the new Chair of the postdoc council. We are happy that Cloe Villard (right) will remain secretary. We wish you a lot of fun while organizing new events and we [...]
Open Competition ENW-XS grant for Lapin (UU)
Towards a new pesticide-free approach for increasing crop disease resilience Dr. D. (Dmitry) Lapin (Utrecht University) Diseases pose significant risks to crop production, food security and the supply of raw materials. The planned reduction in [...]
Four EPS Master students receive funding from the Graduate School Green Top Sectors TKI
Four very talented Master students received the TKI-call for their PhD proposal.Congratulations to: Annemarie Vermeulen, University of Amsterdam and supervised by Frank Takken Angeles Ramos Peregrina , Wageningen University and Research and supervised by Yuling [...]
EPS Call granted to Marije Vos
Together with a group of talented Master students Marije Vos followed the EPS graduate programme of 2023. During the programme she wrote her PhD proposal "The Essence of Fruitful Microspore Embryogenesis: Unveiling (epi)genetic regulatory networks [...]