The Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS)
European Citizens’ Initiative Grow Scientific Progress – Crops Matter
A group of MSc students has taken the initiative to contribute to responsible agricultural innovation in the EU by urging the European commission to improve the outdated legislation on plant breeding. The current regulatory system [...]
UFW Research Award for EPS PhD candidate Sumanth Mutte and former EPS postdoc Dr. Hirotaka Kato
Sumanth Mutte and Dr. Hirotaka Kato won the University Fund Wageningen (UFW) Research Award 2019, for their work published in eLife: “Origin and Evolution of the Nuclear Auxin Response System”. In this study, Sumanth and [...]
Registration Workshop Advances in Plant and Food Metabolomics open!
A workshop for young scientists who have limited or no background in Metabolomics. Deadline for registration is 1st of October 2019.
Veni Grant for Charles Underwood
Charles Underwood (Wageningen U&R, Plant Breeding) received a 250,000 Euro Veni-grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his proposal titled “Understanding the barriers of genetic exchange in hybrid plants”. Charles will investigate [...]
Veni Grant for Mark Sterken
Mark Sterken received a Veni-grant to investigate the interaction between plant-parastic nematodes and their host-plants. His proposal, “The host-parasite supergenome: an untapped source for disease resistances” was awarded 250,000 euro for the coming four years. [...]
Arrival of the EPS Postdoc Council!
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 [...]
Electron Microscopy course – extended deadline
Are you interested in learning more about electron microscopy (EM) and how you could use it in your PhD or postdoc project? Then make sure to apply for this course before 30th of August!
Jian Xu appointed professor of Plant Systems Physiology
As of June 1st, Jian Xu has started as professor of Plant Systems Physiology at Radboud University. He is the successor of Prof. Titti Mariani. Prof. Xu obtained his PhD in Molecular Genetics at Utrecht [...]
Inaugural Lecture Prof.dr. Luisa M. Trindade
Prof. dr. Luisa M. Trindade has been appointed Personal Professor from 1st March 2019. She will give her Inaugural Lecture as Personal Professor Bioresources Breeding and Genetics. Prof. Trindade has entitled her lecture “Bioresources for [...]
EPS PhD candidates visit Averis
On Friday June 7 thirty PhD candidates headed to Valthermond, a small village in the north of the Netherlands. There they visited the potato-breeding company Averis, which is a daughter of the company AVEBE. After [...]
VIDI grant for Photosynthesis research Emilie Wientjes
Emilie Wientjes (WUR, Biophysics) was awarded a VIDI grant for her research 'How flexible is photosynthesis?'. Plants use light to make sugars. However, the quantity and quality of light vary during the day. The researchers [...]
Fascination of Plants Day 2019: EPS PhD candidates participate in Science Battle, winner is Tom Theeuwen (WUR)
Tom Theeuwen wins the science battle between PhD candidates Ties Ausma (RUG), Eva van Zelm (WUR), Tom Theeuwen (WUR) and Sietske van Bentum (UU) who participated in a Science Battle organised by Plantum. The Science [...]
Luisa Trindade appointed professor at Plant Breeding, WUR
Luisa Trindade, Associate Professor (UHD) at Plant Breeding has been appointed Professor holding a personal chair. Prof. Luisa Trindade (Lisbon, 1971) studied Plant Breeding at the Technical University of Lisbon and graduated in 1995. In [...]
Inaugural lecture – Prof. Yuling Bai
Date: Thursday 23 May 2019 at 16.00 Venue: Wageningen University & Research Auditorium, Generaal Foulkesweg 1a, Wageningen Prof. Yuling Bai, Personal Professor of Plant Breeding, WUR will give her inauguration speech entitled “Plant Breeding: Art [...]
ERC Grant for Dolf Weijers
Dolf Weijers (Biochemistry, WUR) has won an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for his research programme ‘DIRNDL - Directions in Development’: Multicellular organisms have a front, a back, a top and a bottom, [...]
Vici grant for Leónie Bentsink
Leónie Bentsink (Plant Physiology, WUR) was awarded an NWO Vici Grant of 1,5 MEuro for her project 'Seeds4Ever: Protection of stored mRNAs to Ensure seed survival. How do seed stored mRNA's survive?' With this funding [...]
Inaugural lecture – Prof. dr. Martijn Rep
Date: 11 April 2019 at 16:00 Venue: University Aula, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Singel 411, 1012 XM, Amsterdam Dr. Martijn Rep has been appointed professor of Phytopathology at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of [...]
Conference Innovation and collaboration in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture – special fee for PhD candidates and Postdocs
On April 14-16, 2019 the bi-annual CROP Innovation & Business conference will take place in Amsterdam. During CROP Innovation & Business 2019 the most influential trends that will affect crop innovation and value chain strategies [...]
Registration for Annual Meeting Experimental Plant Sciences Lunteren now open!
Please notice that registration for Lunteren has now opened. On Monday April 8 and Tuesday April 9 the yearly two-day EPS meeting will be held in Lunteren at the conference centre ‘De Werelt’. The programme [...]
Hugo de Vriesprijs 2019
Elk jaar wordt de Hugo de Vries prijs toegekend voor het beste botanische proefschrift dat verdedigd is aan een Nederlandse universiteit. Deze verkiezing wordt georganiseerd door de Koninklijke Nederlandse Botanische Vereniging (KNBV) en de Stichting [...]
Seven EPS proposals granted in Graduate School Green Top Sectors/Wageningen Graduate School call
The NWO 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. An NWO committee [...]
Nils Foss Excellence Prize for Robert David Hall for plant biochemical fingerprint research
Today, the Wageningen University & Research Professor Robert David Hall received the Nils Foss Excellence Prize for his pioneering research in plant metabolomics – defining the chemical fingerprint of plant materials. The award consists of [...]
NWO awards 5.7 million to the “LettuceKnow” program aimed to future-proof lettuce varieties
A new 5.7 million euro research project will ensure that lettuce will be more resistant to pathogens and climate effects and will grow better in new cultivation systems. EPS research groups from Utrecht, Wageningen and Leiden [...]
3rd Call for Transnational Access to the European Plant Phenotyping Network 2020
Application deadline: 28th of January 2019 The European Plant Phenotyping Network 2020 (EPPN2020) is an EU-funded Research Infrastructure project with the overall goal to create structural and functional synergies between the plant phenotyping institutions in [...]
EPS-member Yuling Bai appointed as personal professor
Prof.dr. Bai has been appointed as personal professor at the Laboratory for Plant Breeding of Wageningen University & Research, led by Prof. Richard Visser. There she was employed as an associate professor and research group [...]
Five million euros for European research to increase agricultural and horticultural yields
Molecular approach to protect plants against cold stress and to stimulate growth. The 'Boostcrop' consortium with researchers from the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences [...]