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 [...]
EPS 2nd year PhD meet-up
Last week, EPS organised a 2nd year PhD meet-up! From sharing progress to diving into the Science of Failure, we explored the fine line between mistakes and failure. We shared experiences in our PhD, as [...]
Two VENIs for EPS researchers
Quint Rusman, currently postdoc at the University of Zurich/Switzerland, and Michael Schon, postdoc at Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, received the NWO Veni-grant. This grant (maximum budget 280.000€) supports researchers that recently graduate as a PhD [...]
Open Competition ENW-XS grant for Melissa Leeggangers
Melissa Leeggangers, postdoc at the plant stress resilience group of Prof. Rashmi Sasidharan, receives the ENW-XS grant for her research proposal. This grant is intended to support promising ideas and to facilitate innovative and more [...]
Ruy Kortbeek receives Rubicon
Ruy Kortbeek , former PhD candidate at the Plant Physiology department of the UvA, receives the Rubicon. He defended his thesis in October 2022 and started recently his postdoc at the Biochemistry department of Purdue, [...]
CropXR launched, NWO contributing 15 million euros
New institute to develop ‘smart breeding’ method for more resilient, sustainable and climate-adaptive agriculture The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will contribute 15 million euros to a CropXR research programme into ‘smart breeding’ of [...]
Ivo Rieu has been appointed Professor of Crop Biotechnology at Radboud University’s Faculty of Science
Rieu’s research focuses on plants and how they cope with climate change - especially the increasingly frequent heatwaves. “Such periods of high temperatures are detrimental for plant fertility, causing them to produce fewer seeds and [...]
New chair for the EPS educational committee
After 25 years, Marcel Dicke (Entomology, WUR) will step down as chair of the educational committee as of September 1st. Marcel has chaired this committee since 1999. In the last 25 years he has evaluated [...]
Four NWO VIDI grants for EPS members
The researcher will receive up to 800.000 €, which allows them develop an their own innovative line of research and to expand their own research group further. Volatile perception in plants Dr. S. Allmann, University of [...]
Vote for Klokhuis Science Prize 2023
The Seed lab (Plant Physiology, WUR) was nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize 2023. You can vote and make them the winner and thereby ensure an episode about seed germination.
NWO Open Competition grant for Emilie Wientjes
Wientjes receives the M-grant of the NWO Open Competition Domain Science. M-grants are intended for realising curiosity-driven, fundamental research of high quality and/or scientific urgency. Mapping photosynthetic light harvesting and light acclimation in three [...]
NWO awards three consortia focusing on crop resilience and human and animal health
Microorganisms are important for crop resilience and human and animal health. Possible adaptation of this so-called microbiome offers great opportunities for society. After all, this microbiome performs important functions in terms of protection against [...]
NWO Open Technology Programme awards proposal from Leónie Bentsink
"HEAT: High temperature Effect on Aradiposis and Tomato seed quality" is the name of the proposal that was awarded to Leonie Bentsink. It is based on a proposal written by Lars Barkermans under the supervision [...]
Marnix Medema Appointed as Professor Holding a Personal Chair in Bioinformatics
The Executive Board has appointed Marnix Medema as professor holding a personal chair in Bioinformatics in the Plant Sciences Group at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The appointment is effective from 1 December. Marnix Medema [...]
New Theme 4 “Genome Biology and Gene regulation” coordinator
After more than 10 years as Theme coordinator 4 Eric Schranz stepped down. During the Theme 4 symposium in December hold in Amsterdam he introduced Aalt-Jan van Dijk (Bioinformatics, WUR) as the new theme 4 [...]
EPS Graduate Programme awards proposal of Jarne Berentsen
Within the EPS Graduate Programme MSc students get the opportunity to write and submit their own PhD proposals with a research group of their own choice. This year Jarne Berentsen of Wageningen University proposal was awarded by the [...]
3 EPS proposals granted by TKI Graduate School Green Top sector
The aim of this programme is to facilitate innovative and high-quality scientific research within the research field of the top sectors Agri&Food and Horticulture & Starting Materials by engaging young talented researchers at the start [...]
Daan Swarts appointed EMBO Young Investigator
Biochemist Daan Swarts of Wageningen University and Research has been appointed EMBO Young Investigator, which means that he is now part of a group of promising young scientists within molecular biology. Together with 23 other [...]
Daan Weits receives ERC Starting Grant
Daan Weits from Utrecht University is one of 408 the successful applicant for the ERC grant 2022. His research proposal "Low oxygen, key ingredient of the plant stem cell niche?" was granted with 1,5 million [...]
EPS 2nd year PhD meet-up
The first edition of the meet-up for 2nd year EPS PhD candidates in November was experienced as a good event to get to know other PhD candidates better and to exchange experiences and tips on [...]
Berendsen receives funding through NWO Open Technology Programme
Dr. Roeland Berendsen from the Plant-Microbe Interaction group at the Utrecht University receives funding for his proposal: "Sequence-based POTato Microbiome tools for microbiome-optimized potatoes". More information about the proposal: Potato is one of the most [...]
Harro Bouwmeester receives ERC grant
Harro Bouwmeester, Chair of Plant Hormone Biology at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences at the University of Amsterdam receives for the proposal "The Engineering of low germination stimulant production to control witchweed infection in maize in Sub-Saharan Africa" [...]
Erik Poelman appointed as professor holding a personal chair
Erik Poelman was appointed as professor holding a personal chair by the Executive Board of Wageningen University and Research. 2004 received Poelman his PhD in the Entomology chair group of the Plant Sciences Group, where [...]