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The 26th Europe-wide seminar of the series supported by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) and aimed at the Plant Science community and its stakeholders.
TTT: The seminar will be held online each third Thursday of the month at three (CET).
On 19th October 2023 at 15:00 (CET) we will present three talks exploring “Plants and Nutritional Security”.
Dr Angelo Santino, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, CNR, Lecce, Italy: “NGTs for nutritional improvement of Solanaceae”
Dr Ian Dawson, SRUC, UK and CIFOR-ICRAF, Kenya: “Considering climate change when diversifying future food systems with healthful ‘forgotten crops’: sub-Saharan Africa as a case study for wider application”
Assoc Prof Katia Petroni, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Italy: “Unlocking the health benefits of anthocyanin-enhanced diets”
The seminars will be hosted on Zoom and last approximately 1.5 hours. Numbers will be limited to 300 attendees and therefore please register early if you would like to join. There will be ample opportunities to ask questions and join the debate. So please join us to support this new and exciting initiative for European Plant Science by following this link just prior to the start of the seminar.
EPSO members register in advance for this meeting: registration link
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
In the coming months we will be on the lookout for talented plant scientists among the EPSO membership to present their findings and perspectives to the EPSO seminar series. If we approach you to talk, we hope you will be happy to support the initiative. This is a fantastic opportunity for both eminent world leaders and talented up-and-coming early career researchers to present their research to an international audience and to network with potential collaborators. If you wish to suggest a theme for one of the autumn seminars and / or nominate yourself or one of your colleagues to give a seminar, we most welcome your suggestions. Please contact Tim George ([email protected]) to provide your name and potential talk title.
We look forward to seeing you all for the 26th EPSO seminar on the 19th October 2023.
Tim George, Alan Schulman and Marie-Theres Hauser
EPSO Plant Science Seminar Series Organising Committee
Click here to read: Full EPSO news item
Contacts:
Tim George, Hutton / UK & EPSO Board
Alan Schulman, LUKE / FI & Adviser to the EPSO Board
Marie-Theres Hauser BOKU / AT & EPSO Board
EPSO has published a new briefing for plant scientists: on the Life Programme Call 2023.
In addition, we updated our Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-24 Briefing to take into account the latest information on the UK and New Zealand’s association to the programme, the publication of the European Research Council Work Programme 2024 and New partnership candidate: ‘Forests & Forestry for a Sustainable Future’.
EPSO encourages its members to apply to these programmes. The briefings contain all information for plant scientists in one place. They also provide additional researched information, useful tips and available final call texts published by the European Commission for 2023/24.
*Access to the Members’ only Website is restricted to EPSO active Members (not sleeping members or external Personal Members) – please contact Sofia Ciravegna for access.
Wishing you success with your proposals
Karin Metzlaff, John Fitzgibbon and Odd Arne Rognli
Contact: Karin Metzlaff
The 25th Europe-wide seminar of the series by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) and aimed at the Plant Science community and its stakeholders.
TTT: The seminar will be held online each third Thursday of the month at three (CET).
On 21st September 2023 at 15:00 (CET) we will present three talks exploring “Epigenetic regulation in plants”
Maria-Estefania Lopez Ortiz, University of Geneva, Switzerland: “Heritability of stress memory in woodland strawberry”
Dario Galanti, University of Tübingen, Germany (now Kew Gardens, UK): “Genome-epigenome dynamics in natural populations of Thlaspi arvense”
Iva Mozgová, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic: “To green or not to green: how PRC2 repression contributes to seedling establishment”
The seminars will be hosted on Zoom and last approximately 1.5 hours. Numbers will be limited to 300 attendees and therefore please register early if you would like to join. There will be ample opportunities to ask questions and join the debate. So please join us to support this new and exciting initiative for European Plant Science by following this link just prior to the start of the seminar.
EPSO members register in advance for this meeting via this link
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
In the coming months we will be on the lookout for talented plant scientists among the EPSO membership to present their findings and perspectives to the EPSO seminar series. If we approach you to talk, we hope you will be happy to support the initiative. This is a fantastic opportunity for both eminent world leaders and talented up-and-coming early career researchers to present their research to an international audience and to network with potential collaborators. If you wish to suggest a theme for one of the autumn seminars and / or nominate yourself or one of your colleagues to give a seminar, we most welcome your suggestions. Please contact Tim George ([email protected]) to provide your name and potential talk title.
We look forward to seeing you all for the 25th EPSO seminar on the 21st September 2023
Tim George, Alan Schulman and Marie-Theres Hauser
EPSO Plant Science Seminar Series Organising Committee
Click here to read: Full EPSO news item
Contacts:
Tim George, Hutton / UK & EPSO Board
Alan Schulman, LUKE / FI & Adviser to EPSO Board
Marie-Theres Hauser BOKU / AT & EPSO Board
The 24th Europe-wide seminar of the series by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) and aimed at the Plant Science community and its stakeholders.
TTT: The seminar will be held online each third Thursday of the month at three (CET). This time exceptionally one week later.
On 15th June 2023 at 15:00 (CET) we will present three talks exploring “Trees – from above, from below, and from within”
Marcin Klisz, Forest Research Institute, Poland: “Upscaling from local to regional scale, potential for dendroclimatic studies to assess tree adaptation to a changing climate”
Sarita Keski-Saari, University of Eastern Finland: “Assessing Leaf Chlorophyll Content of European Aspen by Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging”
Andreas Schindlbacher, Austrian Research Centre for Forests: “Responses of tree fine roots to artificial soil warming and throughfall reduction”
The seminars will be hosted on Zoom and last approximately 1.5 hours. Numbers will be limited to 300 attendees and therefore please register early if you would like to join. There will be ample opportunities to ask questions and join the debate. So please join us to support this exciting initiative for European Plant Science by following this link just prior to the start of the seminar.
EPSO members register in advance for this meeting: Zoom link
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
In the coming months we will be on the lookout for talented plant scientists among the EPSO membership to present their findings and perspectives to the EPSO seminar series. If we approach you to talk, we hope you will be happy to support the initiative. This is a fantastic opportunity for both eminent world leaders and talented up-and-coming early career researchers to present their research to an international audience and to network with potential collaborators. If you wish to suggest a theme for one of the spring seminars and / or nominate yourself or one of your colleagues to give a seminar, we most welcome your suggestions. Please contact Tim George ([email protected]) to provide your name and potential talk title.
We look forward to seeing you all for the 24th EPSO seminar on the 15th June 2023.
Tim George, Alan Schulman and Marie-Theres Hauser
EPSO Plant Science Seminar Series Organising Committee
Click here to read: Full EPSO news item
Contacts:
Tim George, Hutton / UK & EPSO Board
Alan Schulman, LUKE / FI & Adviser EPSO Board
Marie-Theres Hauser BOKU / AT & EPSO Board
EPSO is pleased to announce the publication of its 57th newsletter. The shorter public version of the Newsletter is available here. EPSO members can log in and read the full version available in the Members’ Only section. The next edition of the EPSO newsletter will be autumn 2023. Please send us your articles by early November. Happy reading!
Content of the full version
Editorial
- New EPSO President Odd Arne Rognli pens his first editorial article and sets out some of the major challenges facing the plant science world.
EPSO activities
- EPSO’s Executive Director Dr Karin Metzlaff reports on EPSO’s response to the Horizon Europe consultation on Europe’s Research and Innovation Framework Programmes 2014-27.
- The successful monthly EPSO Plant Science Seminar series enters its third year providing a platform for experienced and talented young plant scientists to showcase their research. This month’s seminar on 25th May will be the 23rd in the series.
- Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University is the host for this year’s EPSO General Meeting taking place from 28-30 June.
- Winners of the EPSO Young Plant Scientist 2023 award are announced.
- Read about some of the success stories from the over 800 events held as part of the 2022 version of the globally successful Fascination of Plants Day; find out about what has happened in this gap year of 2023 and read about plans for the next official edition taking place around 18 May 2024.
- Follow EPSO on LinkedIN
- ERA-Net SusCrop outreach seminar in Ghent, workshop in Berlin & the deadline arrives for entries to the video contest on ‘What does sustainable development mean to you?’
- EPSO’s Working Groups report back on their activities over the past six months and what is in the pipeline for the coming months.
Members’ news
- The Horizon 2020 InnCoCells project on cosmetic ingredients from sustainable plant sources reports strong progress in its second year.
- A fifth European Maize meeting will take place in Bologna in June
- Applying a molecular-metabiomic approach to beta-D glucan in Slovakia
- Celebrations start the year at The James Hutton Institute in the UK
- Learn about MPIB Tübingen’s work on herbicide resistance caused by pre-existing genetic variation
- Read about the Swiss PhD programme addressing education for the Science-Policy dialogue
- Find out about The Sainsbury Laboratory MSc in Global Plant Health
Career opportunities and upcoming events
National, European and global funding
- National Research Funding Opportunities in Germany
- Update on the Horizon Europe work programmes 2023-24
- UK’s association to Horizon Europe draws nearer?
About EPSO
Contacts:
Karin Metzlaff, EPSO
John Fitzgibbon, EPSO
The 23rd Europe-wide seminar of the series by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) and aimed at the Plant Science community and its stakeholders.
TTT: The seminar will be held online each third Thursday of the month at three (CET). This time exceptionally one week later.
On 25th May 2023 at 15:00 (CET) we will present three talks exploring “Talks from EPSO Young Scientists”
Rūta Sutulienė, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania: “Management of drought stress using nanoparticles in pea plants”
Michael Gräf, BOKU, Austria: “Water-Stressed Plants Do not Cool”
Misteru Tesfaye Woldeyohannes, SLU, Sweden: “Brassica carinata : Make your flight greener and faster with additional benefit”
The seminars will be hosted on Zoom and last approximately 1.5 hours. Numbers will be limited to 300 attendees and therefore please register early if you would like to join. There will be ample opportunities to ask questions and join the debate. So please join us to support this exciting initiative for European Plant Science by following this link just prior to the start of the seminar.
EPSO members register in advance for this meeting: Zoom link
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
In the coming months we will be on the lookout for talented plant scientists among the EPSO membership to present their findings and perspectives to the EPSO seminar series. If we approach you to talk, we hope you will be happy to support the initiative. This is a fantastic opportunity for both eminent world leaders and talented up-and-coming early career researchers to present their research to an international audience and to network with potential collaborators. If you wish to suggest a theme for one of the spring seminars and / or nominate yourself or one of your colleagues to give a seminar, we most welcome your suggestions. Please contact Tim George ([email protected]) to provide your name and potential talk title.
We look forward to seeing you all for the 23rd EPSO seminar on the 25th May 2023.
Tim George, Alan Schulman and Marie-Theres Hauser
EPSO Plant Science Seminar Series Organising Committee
Click here to read: Full EPSO news item
Contacts:
Tim George, Hutton / UK & EPSO Board
Alan Schulman, LUKE / FI & Adviser EPSO Board
Marie-Theres Hauser BOKU / AT & EPSO Board