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South African participation

 

Biologically-Active Compounds in Foods and Drinks

 

Master of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at Ghent University

Since last academic year, a Master of Biochemistry and Biotechnology is offered at Ghent University. This training is open to students with a Bachelor or Masters degree. Our department contributes largely to the curriculum and major in Plant Biotechnology. All courses will be taught in English. This training is an excellent preparation for a PhD in plant biotechnology and an exquisite steppingstone to a promising career in agro-industry.

Leaflet Study Plant Biotech

Since last academic year, a Master of Biochemistry and Biotechnology is offered at Ghent University. This training is open to students with a Bachelor or Masters degree. Our department contributes largely to the curriculum and major in Plant Biotechnology. All courses will be taught in English. This training is an excellent preparation for a PhD in plant biotechnology and an exquisite steppingstone to a promising career in agro-industry.

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Manager Position for a European Integrated Project

AGRON-OMICS (Arabidopsis Growth Network Integrating -OMICS technologies) is an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission within the Framework Program 6 involving the top European plant research institutes (www.agron-omics.eu). The AGRON-OMICS research program focuses on the integration of a wide range of molecular profiling and phenotyping technologies to unravel leaf and plant growth gene regulatory networks.

Tomato Core Collection Workshop July 26-31, 2009

The coming season is all about seeing what we “fished” out of the core collection screens and establishing diversity panels for traits that are important for tomato agriculture. The involvement of other EU-SOL labs in phenotyping the panels forms a strong basis for further discovery and innovation.

2009, Oct 4-6 - 4th meeting EU-SOL Toledo

Dear EU-SOL Partners, You are cordially invited to attend the fourth EU-SOL Project Meeting, which this year will take place October 4 - 6 in Toledo, Spain in Hotel Beatriz Toledo Auditorium.

Publishable Executive Summary

Period 1-3 (month 1-36)

Newsletter Pepper Today, Oct 2009

 

SolcapnewsOct09.pdf

 

Kazusa genetic map and markers

The new tomato genetic map of Kazusa has been made public, see http://www.kazusa.or.jp/tomato/.

SolCAP News, March 2010

Solanaceae Coordinated Agricultural Project, Volume 2, issue 2 (see attachment)

SolCAP news March 2010

The March 2010 newsletter from the Solanaceae Coordinated Agricultural Project (Volume 2, issue 2) is available, see attachment.

SOL 2010 conference

Welcome to SOL 2010, 7th Solanaceae conference Dundee, Scotland, 5-9 September 2010

Solanum pimpinellifolium genome sequence

The whole genome shotgun assembly for the close wild relative of tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium, has been pre-released on SGN by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists Doreen Ware, Richard McCombie and Zach Lippman. The dataset can be downloaded and used for BLAST. Please read the accompanying Data Agreement carefully.

Tomato genome release: Assembly version 1.5

The International Tomato Genome Consortium has released a new assembly, version 1.50. This version includes polishing with Solexa and SOLID sequences, and improved scaffolds based on BAC end linkage data. Please refer to the Data Agreement.

SOL 2010, September 5-9

The SOL2010 conference is approaching fast. Many thanks to those who have already registered it looks as if it will be an exciting meeting. We have decided to extend the Early Bird registration rate for two weeks only, until Monday June 14th 2010, so that those who have not yet done so can take advantage of the discounted rate. read more ..

Sol2010 Flyer

The 7th Solanaceae Conference

SOL 2010 conference - Flyer

Flyer for the 7th Solanaceae Conference