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With so much going on in the world of Arabidopsis research, you can now stay up-to-date with all the latest news, discoveries and find out what is happening in the wider plant science community.
Plant and Crops Summer School
28th Feb 2013
The University of Nottingham's Centre for Plant Integrative Biology is running a Summer School in Plants and Crops - Feeding the World. The summer school is aimed at GCSE students who are particularly interested in science. It has been created to help you find out more about Plant and Crop Sciences...
Funding Opportunities this Spring
28th Feb 2013
This post is also published on the GARNet blog, Weeding the Gems. Research funding, partnering awards, and fellowships BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger Grants: Outline proposal deadline 18 April. Selected applicants will then be invited to submit full applications by January 2014. These...
Travel grants for conferences available
14th Feb 2013
This news article is adapted from a post on the GARNet blog. The GARNet meeting introducing Plant Synthetic Biology and the second UKPSF conference UK PlantSci 2013 are coming up fast. If you would like to attend one or both of these meetings but feel unable to pay the...
Video interviews with plant scientists now online
28th Jan 2013
At the UK PlantSci 2012 conference, GARNet made video podcasts of five researchers talking about their work, the challenges facing plant scientists, and the state of UK plant science today. They all talked about their research, how it applies to the real world, and what they believe the future...
1st Monogram Early Career Excellence Award
22nd Jan 2013
Monogram would like to invite nominations for the 1st annual Monogram Early Career Excellence Award. We seek to recognize outstanding young scientists and researchers in the field of small grain cereal and grass research in the UK. The excellence award will consider research contributions in both...
Plant Synthetic Biology Workshop
18th Jan 2013
Venue: University of Nottingham Date: 21-22 May 2013 This workshop aims to introduce synthetic biology to a broad UK plant science base. Speakers at the workshop will present a range of synthetic biology applications, from synthetic molecules to whole plant engineering, and will introduce...
