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Plant Synthetic Biology at IHÉS

poster_cellular_molecular Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) held a meeting on Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology, including Synthetic Biology in Paris last week. OpenPlant was well represented by Professors Jim Haseloff and Anne Osbourn. You can find videos of their talks below and all recordings on the IHÉS youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Yjj3hMtZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSKM1YcM4rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FN6E1xTAic

 

 

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OpenPlant Supported TReND/icipe bioinformatics workshop

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RICHARD SMITH-UNNA DELIVERING A PLANT SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY SESSION AT ICIPE

RICHARD SMITH-UNNA DELIVERING A PLANT SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY SESSION AT ICIPE

The OpenPlant Fund supported TReND in Africa to include plant synthetic biology in their recent bioinformatics course held at icipe in Kenya. The course was a great success with 35 students selected from a total of 430 applicants. They learnt R and Unix programming basics, as well as advanced genomics techniques from a number of different areas of biology.

The plant synthetic biology session was delivered by Richard Smith-Unna (@blahah404), a PhD Student in the OpenPlant-affiliated Hibberd Lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

TReND’s Jelena Aleksic recorded interviews with participants who described their experience of the course, you can view the playlist below and find more about TReND in Africa’s activities on their website.

 

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Funded workshop on genomics, gene discovery and genome editing in crops in Peru (deadline 14 Dec)

More info and applications The British Council, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the James Hutton Institute invite applications for their workshop on genomics, gene discovery and genome editing in crops. Funding enables UK and Peruvian early-career researchers to attend a workshop, to be held from 1 to 5 February 2016 in Lima, Peru, that focuses on implementing modern genomics and biotechnological methods in crop breeding programmes for rapid and targeted improvement of crops.

The workshop also aims to encourage collaboration between UK plant research centres and key Peruvian agricultural institutes. It also enables early-career researchers to network, forge links that will initiate projects with benefits to Peruvian food security and nutrition, and improve incomes for Peruvian farmers and food producers.

Early stage crop scientists from the UK may apply. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD no more than 10 years before the workshop or have equivalent experience. Those who have relevant experience and work in a field where a PhD is not a prerequisite to established research activity, may also apply.

Grants cover all travel and local expenses for the attendance of 12 to 15 researchers. The workshop will last for five days.