EPS SUMMER EVENT
Edinburgh Plant Science Summer Event, hosting Syngenta
15th June 2017, Waddington Building, Room 1.08, King’s Buildings Campus, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3BF
News
Keys to the Future: Careers in Plants and the Land
Edinburgh Plant Science and the University of Edinburgh Plant Science Society are hosting a student-organised event primarily targeted at undergraduate and postgraduate students and those early in their careers. We are showcasing some of the varied and fascinating places an interest in plants can lead to.
To register and for more information: http://plantsandtheland.eventbrite.co.uk
Seminar by Elena R. Álvarez-Buylla - 23 June 2016
SynthSys – Centre for Synthetic & Systems Biology
Seminar Series
C.H Waddington building, Seminar Room 1.08, King's Buildings Campus
12noon, Thursday 23rd June 2016
System-level mechanisms in plant development, plasticity and evolution: From regulatory networks and epigenetic landscapes to morphogenesis
Professor Elena R. Álvarez-Buylla
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Ecology & Center for Complex Studies
Team to create a molecular toolbox to boost cyanobacterial pigment production
December 7th 2015
SynthSys PIs Dr Alistair McCormick and Br Baojun Wang are joining forces with Scottish SME Scottish Bioenergy to develop a toolkit to boost the production of commercially valuable pigments from cyanobacteria.
Agrimetrics launched by BIS and Defra Ministers
Agrimetrics, a big data centre for the whole agri-food industry, has been launched by George Eustice MP, Minister for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment, and George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Life Sciences.
SRUC a key partner in the first UK Agritech Innovation Centre
On March 18th, following the Chancellor's Budget, the UK Government announced that it will invest £12M in the first national Centre for Agricultural Innovation.
The new Centre for Agri-Informatics and Sustainability Metrics (AIMS) was proposed by a consortium of leading industry and academic partners including Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Rothamsted Research, the University of Reading, and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB).
Spring Networking Event
Venue: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon innovation (ECCI), Conference room
High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Date: Friday 1st May 2015
Time: 13:00 – 17:00
This is a free event but registration is essential as space is limited.
Register via https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/15912869822/
Potential Difference Exhibition
Potential Difference examines socio-cultural aspects of science, with a focus on gender that is still a barrier to the career progression and optimisation of scientific potential in the UK. The project provides a landscape for postgraduate students to explore the impact of culture on our perceptions and expectations of female scientists. It also creates a unique and stimulating environment for cross-disciplinary interaction between early career scientists, archivists and professional artists.
Potential Difference aims to:
Insights into plant growth could curb need for fertilisers
News Release
Issued Wednesday 12 November 2014
New insights into how plants regulate their absorption of an essential nutrient could help avoid pollution caused by excess use of fertiliser.
The finings could lead to the development of crop varieties that need less of the primary nutrient – nitrogen – than conventional crops. It could also inform how much nitrogen should be added to plant feed.