See http://www.agdevjournal.com/current-special-topic-call.html for the details below.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Essential Principles of Small- and Mid-Scale Food Value Chain Development
Manuscripts due February 15, 2011
For details about JAFSCD and author guidelines, visit www.AgDevJournal.com/submissions.
JAFSCD invites researchers, ag/food system development professionals, and others to submit applied research papers, critical reflection essays, commentaries, and other manuscripts that provide critical insights into small- and mid-scale food value chain development.
Food value chains (FVCs) are a hot topic among agriculture and food systems development professionals. In FVCs, farmers and ranchers are treated as strategic partners, not as interchangeable — and exploitable — input suppliers. Values-based food supply chains (value chains) are strategic alliances between farms, ranches, and other supply-chain partners who distribute rewards equitably across the supply chain. They can include farm-to-institutions (schools, hospitals, prisons), multiproducer processors and wholesalers, multifarm CSAs, food hubs, food webs and networks, and the like. All partners in these business alliances recognize that creating maximum value for the product depends on significant interdependence, collaboration, and mutual support.[1]
Research suggests that successful mid-scale FVCs are built on three foundations:
* Appropriate volumes of high-quality, differentiated, market-engaging food products, coupled with value-adding stories of people, land, and practices;
* Strategic partnerships based on trusting, transparent, and win/win business relationships; and
* Effective, efficient supply-chain management and logistics, including product marketing, aggregation, processing, distribution, and record-keeping.
Papers can explore specific components within a chain (a farmer co-op or association), interactions of two or more links in a chain (farmers, wholesalers, processors, retailers, and eaters), or an entire chain. Examples include:
* Case studies of successful or failed FVC programs
* Research and education strategies that help build resilient FVCs
* How are FVCs playing a role in rural development?
* The role of FVCs in increasingly multifunctional rural landscapes
* Systematic analyses of key differences between FVCs and traditional food supply chains
* Local and global FVCs: influence of globalization on FVCs; should these be accepted or mediated?
* Overview analysis of the values chain sector (comparisons or outcomes across many cases)
* Implications of new food safety legislation on values chains
* Storage and transportation logistics
* Branding and geographical identity
* Performance and impact analysis
* Scaling up
* Building trust and transparency
* Business planning and/or record-keeping
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development is a NEW online-only international, peer-reviewed journal focused on applied research and best practices in the development of thriving farming communities and sustainable food systems. Peer reviewers include development practitioners, organization and agency staff, faculty, graduate students, consultants, and farmers from around the world with expertise in a wide range of agriculture and food-systems issues as they relate to community, ecological sustainability, and economic development. JAFSCD is online at www.AgDevJournal.com.
[1] Adapted with permission from Stevenson, G. W. and Pirog, R. (2008). Values-based supply chains: Strategies for agrifood enterprises of the middle. In T. Lyson, G. W. Stevenson, and R. Welsh (Eds.), Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
OPEN CALL
The Journal welcomes papers at any time on any subject related to the development aspects of agriculture and food systems.
Content can focus specifically on conservation and farmland protection, value-adding, cooperative marketing, value chains, distribution, farm labor, market research, consumer decision-making drivers, and other topics. Authors are encouraged to submit applied research papers, commentary, and thought-provoking articles that inform the emerging field of agriculture and food systems development. Faculty and students, Extension and other educators, planners, consultants, staff with farm agencies and farm and community organizations, and farmers are invited to submit material.
For both calls, manuscripts should focus on the practical application of these innovations: the organization and mechanics of a program or strategy; engagement of stakeholders; challenges and unique solutions; impact analysis; and lessons learned. The Journal encourages "accessible scholarship" -- minimizing jargon, writing in the active voice, and addressing the interests of both practitioners and academics. These papers should inspire and inform new and existing community development efforts to establish and sustain farms. Papers that feature survey results with descriptive statistics, or case studies featuring best practices (or even post-mortem analyses), are highly encouraged.
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
is published by New Leaf Publishing and Consulting (www.NewLeafNet.com).
Friday, December 3, 2010
Sci/Tech Bar in Cambridge
The Cambridgeshire branch of the British Science Association plans to organise a Sci/Tech Bar in Cambridge.
SciBars typically provide a forum for scientists and non-scientists to get together in an informal setting (a bar) to discuss a scientific topic. Typically, an active researcher/scientist introduces the session with a short background talk (< 30 minutes) on their work and this is followed by a general discussion around the subject.
We have come up with a new angle for a Sci/Tech Bar and the aim would be to convey the following messages to the public:
1. The importance of long term funding of basic science
2. The steps and timeframe required to develop the science/technology into a product already on the market or close to market
3. The difference in timescales from initial scientific discovery to products in different sectors
4. The interdisciplinary nature of product development (and therefore dependence on advances in different scientific disciplines)
5. The application of sciences into different end sector products (a classic example is the NASA technology and memory foam mattresses)
The proposed format would have a researcher/scientist give a short timeline of the key discoveries in the field that have lead to the point the science/technology could be developed into a commercial product (15 minutes). This would then be followed by a person from the company who highlights the development into a product on or near market (15 minutes). In some instances, one person could present both aspects.
Cambridge is the ideal place for such a format, with one of the world's leading research universities combined with a high level of Business Enterprise Research and Development, not only in start-ups but also in established multinational corporations.
We are now looking for companies who are willing to volunteer for a Sci/Tech bar which will start first quarter 2011. We anticipate that this would provide an ideal opportunity for local High Tech companies to showcase their technology to the wider community. If you or your company are interested, or want to know more about the Sci/Tech bar, please get in contact with Dr Katia Smith-Litière before 20 December at info@britishscienceassociation-cambridgeshire.org.uk.
SciBars typically provide a forum for scientists and non-scientists to get together in an informal setting (a bar) to discuss a scientific topic. Typically, an active researcher/scientist introduces the session with a short background talk (< 30 minutes) on their work and this is followed by a general discussion around the subject.
We have come up with a new angle for a Sci/Tech Bar and the aim would be to convey the following messages to the public:
1. The importance of long term funding of basic science
2. The steps and timeframe required to develop the science/technology into a product already on the market or close to market
3. The difference in timescales from initial scientific discovery to products in different sectors
4. The interdisciplinary nature of product development (and therefore dependence on advances in different scientific disciplines)
5. The application of sciences into different end sector products (a classic example is the NASA technology and memory foam mattresses)
The proposed format would have a researcher/scientist give a short timeline of the key discoveries in the field that have lead to the point the science/technology could be developed into a commercial product (15 minutes). This would then be followed by a person from the company who highlights the development into a product on or near market (15 minutes). In some instances, one person could present both aspects.
Cambridge is the ideal place for such a format, with one of the world's leading research universities combined with a high level of Business Enterprise Research and Development, not only in start-ups but also in established multinational corporations.
We are now looking for companies who are willing to volunteer for a Sci/Tech bar which will start first quarter 2011. We anticipate that this would provide an ideal opportunity for local High Tech companies to showcase their technology to the wider community. If you or your company are interested, or want to know more about the Sci/Tech bar, please get in contact with Dr Katia Smith-Litière before 20 December at info@britishscienceassociation-cambridgeshire.org.uk.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
HE Woodman Prize
PhD supervisors are invited to submit nominations for the HE Woodman Prize for the best PhD or MPhil thesis submitted to the University of Cambridge in 2010 that is relevant to the chemistry of foods. Nominations should include a copy of the thesis abstract, a list of publications based on the work described in the thesis and a statement - 400 words or less - describing the impact of the thesis work and the basis of its relevance to the chemistry of foods. The value of the prize will be around £300 or any other value thought appropriate that is equal to or less than the spendable income and capital of the fund. The Prize is awarded by the Professors of Botany and Genetics and nominations by supervisors should be sent to Ombretta Orsini (oo203) in the Department of Plant Sciences by midnight on 18 January 2011.
ADAS is recruiting a Crop Physiologist and Head of Horticulture
ADAS UK Ltd is a major provider of agricultural environmental consultancy and research throughout the UK, providing science based solutions. Their strength lies in the ability to provide our clients with an unparalleled range of objective, science-based information, advice and implementation services across the agricultural, horticultural and environment sectors.
Please see: http://www.adas.co.uk/Home/CareerOpportunities/Currentvacancies/tabid/220/Default.aspx for further details.
Closing dates are 15 December 2010 (Crop Physiologist) and 16 December 2010 (Head of Horticulture).
Please see: http://www.adas.co.uk/Home/CareerOpportunities/Currentvacancies/tabid/220/Default.aspx for further details.
Closing dates are 15 December 2010 (Crop Physiologist) and 16 December 2010 (Head of Horticulture).
Update November 2010
Please feel free to distribute this update to other members of your organisation.
CPPS lecture, Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
Crop sciences and agri-biotech mission to the UK: Wed 8 Dec, Cambridge, deadline 24 Nov 2010
Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development
Speaker: Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC
Date: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 (followed by wine and nibbles)
Venue: Dept of Plant Sciences (Large Lecture Theatre), Cambridge CB2 3EA
Abstract:
Mobile signals provided by hormones and morphogens are essential to organise multicellular structures. Despite detailed knowledge on the dynamics of specific hormones in specific cellular environments, not much is known about the interactions between different hormonal pathways or between hormonal and genetic events that lead to proper organ formation.
The Arabidopsis fruit provides an outstanding model system to study organ patterning and cell differentiation with dramatically different cell types located immediately next to each other. Work on Arabidopsis fruit development has been impressively successful in identifying key genetic regulators; however, the data clearly indicate that in order to get an integrated view of fruit patterning, it is necessary to understand the role of hormones in the process.
We use Arabidopsis and Brassica fruits as models to study how genetic and hormonal activities interact to form a complex organ. Results will be presented on the importance of both local hormone biosynthesis and distribution, on communication between tissues to coordinate growth and how these processes are controlled.
The lecture will be followed by networking over wine and nibbles; an excellent opportunity to connect with the speaker and other members from industry and academia!
All welcome, no registration is necessary.
Delegates from China, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa and Brazil are coming to the UK in December to identify opportunities for international collaboration in research, technology development and transfer and we would like to offer you the opportunity to meet them.
The delegation includes experts from research institutes, private companies and investment funds. Their interests include, for instance: conventional breeding and transgenic crops; pest prevention and control; fertilizers; feed additives; plant extract and essential oils; food supplements and renewable energy.
If you are interested in meeting the delegates in Cambridge on Wed 8th Dec, please send the following information to bgs21@cam.ac.uk and b.forte@uea.ac.uk by the 24th Nov.:
Company:
Name:
Email:
Phone:
Website:
Summary of activities:
This event is being organised in partnership with the International Agri-Technology Centre and UK TI.
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If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 13 December 2010).
Content in Summary:
CPPS lecture, Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
Crop sciences and agri-biotech mission to the UK: Wed 8 Dec, Cambridge, deadline 24 Nov 2010
Next CPPS Lecture
Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development
Speaker: Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC
Date: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 (followed by wine and nibbles)
Venue: Dept of Plant Sciences (Large Lecture Theatre), Cambridge CB2 3EA
Abstract:
Mobile signals provided by hormones and morphogens are essential to organise multicellular structures. Despite detailed knowledge on the dynamics of specific hormones in specific cellular environments, not much is known about the interactions between different hormonal pathways or between hormonal and genetic events that lead to proper organ formation.
The Arabidopsis fruit provides an outstanding model system to study organ patterning and cell differentiation with dramatically different cell types located immediately next to each other. Work on Arabidopsis fruit development has been impressively successful in identifying key genetic regulators; however, the data clearly indicate that in order to get an integrated view of fruit patterning, it is necessary to understand the role of hormones in the process.
We use Arabidopsis and Brassica fruits as models to study how genetic and hormonal activities interact to form a complex organ. Results will be presented on the importance of both local hormone biosynthesis and distribution, on communication between tissues to coordinate growth and how these processes are controlled.
The lecture will be followed by networking over wine and nibbles; an excellent opportunity to connect with the speaker and other members from industry and academia!
All welcome, no registration is necessary.
Crop sciences and agri-biotech mission to the UK - Wed 8th Dec, Cambridge
Delegates from China, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa and Brazil are coming to the UK in December to identify opportunities for international collaboration in research, technology development and transfer and we would like to offer you the opportunity to meet them.
The delegation includes experts from research institutes, private companies and investment funds. Their interests include, for instance: conventional breeding and transgenic crops; pest prevention and control; fertilizers; feed additives; plant extract and essential oils; food supplements and renewable energy.
If you are interested in meeting the delegates in Cambridge on Wed 8th Dec, please send the following information to bgs21@cam.ac.uk and b.forte@uea.ac.uk by the 24th Nov.:
Company:
Name:
Email:
Phone:
Website:
Summary of activities:
This event is being organised in partnership with the International Agri-Technology Centre and UK TI.
_____
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 13 December 2010).
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
CPPS News November 2010
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to other members of your organisation. If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 13 December 2010.
Events - InCrops Networking Event on Biolubricants (‘Oiling a Green Economy’): 16 Nov 2010, 16:30-18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD; CPPS lecture ‘Genetic and molecular studies of fruit development’, Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
Jobs - ADAS Crop Physiologist, deadline 15 Dec 2010; ADAS Head of Horticulture - deadline 16 Dec 2010
Funding Opportunities -upcoming TSB call; FP7 calls, deadline 25 Jan 2011
Miscellaneous - Seed Rate Calculator
‘Biolubricants - Oiling a Green Economy’: InCrops Networking Event
Tue 16 Nov, 16:30 - 18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD
The event is for businesses interested in sustainable alternatives to petroleum derived lubricants and those involved in producing and selling lubricants. This event is FREE to attend.
Hear from Cliff Lea of Fuchs Lubricant about the use of biolubricants during construction of the Eden Project and from Simon Nash of Green Oil UK about his products and the benefits of their use in cycling.
Registration - to attend this event please contact Julia O’Rourke, InCrops events co-ordinator, by email j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or call 01603 591765 by noon Tuesday 16 November.
Showcase opportunities - if you produce products relevant to this event and are interested in showcasing them please contact Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, InCrops Business Innovation Manager, by email b.schlarb-ridley@uea.ac.uk or call 0777 8983612
Please do feel free to forward this invitation to any colleagues or contacts that you are working with where it would be appropriate. Further information about the event and the InCrops Project is available at www.incropsproject.co.uk/events.
Next CPPS Lecture: Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development
Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC
25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 (followed by wine & nibbles)
Dept of Plant Sciences (Large Lecture Theatre), Cambridge CB2 3EA
Abstract: Mobile signals provided by hormones and morphogens are essential to organise multicellular structures. Despite detailed knowledge on the dynamics of specific hormones in specific cellular environments, not much is known about the interactions between different hormonal pathways or between hormonal and genetic events that lead to proper organ formation.
The Arabidopsis fruit provides an outstanding model system to study organ patterning and cell differentiation with dramatically different cell types located immediately next to each other. Work on Arabidopsis fruit development has been impressively successful in identifying key genetic regulators; however, the data clearly indicate that in order to get an integrated view of fruit patterning, it is necessary to understand the role of hormones in the process.
We use Arabidopsis and Brassica fruits as models to study how genetic and hormonal activities interact to form a complex organ. Results will be presented on the importance of both local hormone biosynthesis and distribution, on communication between tissues to coordinate growth and how these processes are controlled.
The lecture will be followed by networking over wine and nibbles; an excellent opportunity to connect with the speaker and other members from industry and academia!
All welcome, no registration is necessary.
ADAS are looking to employ two new members of staff:
Crop Physiologist - deadline 15 Dec 2010
Head of Horticulture - deadline 16 Dec 2010
Please see further details.
Upcoming TSB Call: Sustainable Agriculture, soft-launched at Innovate10, to open in 2011; one emphasis to be sustainable animal feed. We will bring you more information when it becomes available!
FP7 calls "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnologies"
The primary aim in funding Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) research under FP7 is to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) by bringing together all industries and economic sectors that produce, manage and exploit biological resources and related services, supply or consumer industries, such as food, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, etc. The theme is based on three activity areas:
- Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
- Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well-being
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes
Participation is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals from research institutes and universities to SMEs and large companies. Essentially, any "legal entity" is eligible with different participation rules applying depending on the research initiative in question. Generally, consortia require three legal entities from three different EU member states or associated countries as a bare minimum.
The concrete plans for implementing the specific programmes are announced by the Commission in annual "Work Programmes" (WP), which include the schedules of "Calls for proposals" to be published during the year.
Work Programme 2011
Call title: KBBE 2011- general call for proposals
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2011-5
Date of publication: 20 July 2010
Deadline: 25 January 2011 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
Indicative budget: € 240.27 million from 2011 budget
More information and the full work programme 2011 for this Cooperation theme 2 are available on the Cordis website.
Seed rate calculator
Apps with commercial application are likely to grow over the next couple of years with lots of potential for agriculture. For anyone interested in Apps for Apple ipod or iphone, this seed rate calculator might be of interest.
Members of CPPS have expressed interest in hearing of any other ideas people may have for useful apps. Please send any comments to bgs21@cam.ac.uk.
_____
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 13 December 2010).
Content in Summary:
Events - InCrops Networking Event on Biolubricants (‘Oiling a Green Economy’): 16 Nov 2010, 16:30-18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD; CPPS lecture ‘Genetic and molecular studies of fruit development’, Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
Jobs - ADAS Crop Physiologist, deadline 15 Dec 2010; ADAS Head of Horticulture - deadline 16 Dec 2010
Funding Opportunities -upcoming TSB call; FP7 calls, deadline 25 Jan 2011
Miscellaneous - Seed Rate Calculator
Events
‘Biolubricants - Oiling a Green Economy’: InCrops Networking Event
Tue 16 Nov, 16:30 - 18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD
The event is for businesses interested in sustainable alternatives to petroleum derived lubricants and those involved in producing and selling lubricants. This event is FREE to attend.
Hear from Cliff Lea of Fuchs Lubricant about the use of biolubricants during construction of the Eden Project and from Simon Nash of Green Oil UK about his products and the benefits of their use in cycling.
Registration - to attend this event please contact Julia O’Rourke, InCrops events co-ordinator, by email j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or call 01603 591765 by noon Tuesday 16 November.
Showcase opportunities - if you produce products relevant to this event and are interested in showcasing them please contact Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, InCrops Business Innovation Manager, by email b.schlarb-ridley@uea.ac.uk or call 0777 8983612
Please do feel free to forward this invitation to any colleagues or contacts that you are working with where it would be appropriate. Further information about the event and the InCrops Project is available at www.incropsproject.co.uk/events.
Next CPPS Lecture: Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development
Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC
25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 (followed by wine & nibbles)
Dept of Plant Sciences (Large Lecture Theatre), Cambridge CB2 3EA
Abstract: Mobile signals provided by hormones and morphogens are essential to organise multicellular structures. Despite detailed knowledge on the dynamics of specific hormones in specific cellular environments, not much is known about the interactions between different hormonal pathways or between hormonal and genetic events that lead to proper organ formation.
The Arabidopsis fruit provides an outstanding model system to study organ patterning and cell differentiation with dramatically different cell types located immediately next to each other. Work on Arabidopsis fruit development has been impressively successful in identifying key genetic regulators; however, the data clearly indicate that in order to get an integrated view of fruit patterning, it is necessary to understand the role of hormones in the process.
We use Arabidopsis and Brassica fruits as models to study how genetic and hormonal activities interact to form a complex organ. Results will be presented on the importance of both local hormone biosynthesis and distribution, on communication between tissues to coordinate growth and how these processes are controlled.
The lecture will be followed by networking over wine and nibbles; an excellent opportunity to connect with the speaker and other members from industry and academia!
All welcome, no registration is necessary.
Jobs
ADAS are looking to employ two new members of staff:
Crop Physiologist - deadline 15 Dec 2010
Head of Horticulture - deadline 16 Dec 2010
Please see further details.
Funding Opportunities
Upcoming TSB Call: Sustainable Agriculture, soft-launched at Innovate10, to open in 2011; one emphasis to be sustainable animal feed. We will bring you more information when it becomes available!
FP7 calls "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnologies"
The primary aim in funding Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) research under FP7 is to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) by bringing together all industries and economic sectors that produce, manage and exploit biological resources and related services, supply or consumer industries, such as food, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, etc. The theme is based on three activity areas:
- Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
- Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well-being
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes
Participation is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals from research institutes and universities to SMEs and large companies. Essentially, any "legal entity" is eligible with different participation rules applying depending on the research initiative in question. Generally, consortia require three legal entities from three different EU member states or associated countries as a bare minimum.
The concrete plans for implementing the specific programmes are announced by the Commission in annual "Work Programmes" (WP), which include the schedules of "Calls for proposals" to be published during the year.
Work Programme 2011
Call title: KBBE 2011- general call for proposals
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2011-5
Date of publication: 20 July 2010
Deadline: 25 January 2011 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
Indicative budget: € 240.27 million from 2011 budget
More information and the full work programme 2011 for this Cooperation theme 2 are available on the Cordis website.
Miscellaneous
Seed rate calculator
Apps with commercial application are likely to grow over the next couple of years with lots of potential for agriculture. For anyone interested in Apps for Apple ipod or iphone, this seed rate calculator might be of interest.
Members of CPPS have expressed interest in hearing of any other ideas people may have for useful apps. Please send any comments to bgs21@cam.ac.uk.
_____
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 13 December 2010).
Thursday, October 28, 2010
CPPS news October 2010
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to other members of your organisation. If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 12 November 2010.
Events - These Young Minds: Conference on Sustainable Entrepreneurship: 28 Oct 2010, 16:00-19:30, LG17 of Law Faculty, Cambridge CB3 9DZ; InCrops Networking Event on Biolubricants (‘Oiling a Green Economy’): 16 Nov 2010, 16:30-18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD; CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News - BIS announces £200m funding for Technology Innovation Centres
Funding Opportunities - upcoming and current TSB calls; deadline 17 Nov 2010; FP7 calls, deadline 25 Jan 2011
Conference on Sustainable Entrepreneurship, organised by These Young Minds
Thu 28 Nov, 16:00-19:30, LG17 of Law Faculty, University of Cambridge 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
Sustainable Entrepreneurship involves developing a competence in using innovative ways to harness the opportunities that solving societal challenges provide while considering the short, medium and long term impact on all stakeholders. By doing this social and economic value will be created. The event Sustainable Entrepreneurship will provide delegates the opportunity to learn: • How to build social and business value • Communicate the need for transformation • How to become a catalyst for change and aligning incentives
To view the programme and register, please visit: http://www.theseyoungminds.co.uk/events/viewevent.php?view=3
‘Biolubricants - Oiling a Green Economy’: InCrops Networking Event
Tue 16 Nov, 16:30 - 18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD
The event is for businesses interested in sustainable alternatives to petroleum derived lubricants and those involved in producing and selling lubricants. This event is FREE to attend.
Hear from Cliff Lea of Fuchs Lubricant about the use of biolubricants during construction of the Eden Project and from Simon Nash of Green Oil UK about his products and the benefits of their use in cycling.
Registration - to attend this event please contact Julia O’Rourke, InCrops events co-ordinator, by email j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or call 01603 591765 by Tuesday 9 November.
Showcase opportunities - if you produce products relevant to this event and are interested in showcasing them please contact Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, InCrops Business Innovation Manager, by email b.schlarb-ridley@uea.ac.uk or call 0777 8983612.
Please do feel free to forward this invitation to any colleagues or contacts that you are working with where it would be appropriate. Further information about the event and the InCrops Project is available at www.incropsproject.co.uk/events.
Next CPPS Lecture: Genetic and molecular studies of fruit development, Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC (http://www.jic.ac.uk/profile/Lars-Ostergaard.asp).
Thu 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking.
All welcome, no registration is necessary.
BIS announces £200m for Technology Innovation Centres: read more at: http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=416174&NewsAreaID=2.
Upcoming TSB Call: Sustainable Agriculture, soft-launched at Innovate10, to open in 2011; one emphasis to be sustainable animal feed. We will bring you more information when it becomes available!
Current TSB calls: Open date: 12 October 2010 Close date: 17 Nov 2010 (variable)
Technology-Inspired Collaborative Research and Development
The core technology areas covered: Advanced Materials; Biosciences; Electronics, Photonics & Electrical Systems; High Value Manufacturing, ICT, Nanotechnology (£18m)
Further details can be downloaded from: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspired-collaborative-research-and-dev.ashx.
Manufacturing High Value Chemicals through Industrial Biotechnology
An indicative £2.5m is being invested to support feasibility and collaborative R&D projects. Collaborative R&D projects should be business-led consortia and include an end user. Feasibility projects may be business-led consortia or single companies.
Further details can be downloaded from: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/manufacturing-high-value-chemicals-through-industr.ashx.
Genomes UK: Exploiting the Potential of High-Throughput Sequencing
The Technology Strategy Board is launching a collaborative R&D competition with up to £5 million available to invest in projects using genomics-based technologies. This initiative seeks to highlight the opportunities created by the decrease in cost and increase in speed in highthroughput sequencing technology. Projects should be business-led and seek to develop new products or processes.
Further details can be downloaded from: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/genomes-uk-exploiting-the-potential-of-high-throug.ashx.
FP7 calls “Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnologies”
The primary aim in funding Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) research under FP7 is to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) by bringing together all industries and economic sectors that produce, manage and exploit biological resources and related services, supply or consumer industries, such as food, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, etc.
The theme is based on three activity areas:
• Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
• Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well-being
• Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes
Participation is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals from research institutes and universities to SMEs and large companies. Essentially, any “legal entity” is eligible with different participation rules applying depending on the research initiative in question. Generally, consortia require three legal entities from three different EU member states or associated countries as a bare minimum.
The concrete plans for implementing the specific programmes are announced by the Commission in annual “Work Programmes” (WP), which include the schedules of “Calls for proposals” to be published during the year.
Work Programme 2011
Call title: KBBE 2011- general call for proposals
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2011-5
Date of publication: 20 July 2010
Deadline: 25 January 2011 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
Indicative budget: € 240.27 million from 2011 budget
More information and the full work programme 2011 for this Cooperation theme 2 are available on the Cordis website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/kbbe/home_en.html.
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 12 Nov 2010).
Content in Summary:
Events - These Young Minds: Conference on Sustainable Entrepreneurship: 28 Oct 2010, 16:00-19:30, LG17 of Law Faculty, Cambridge CB3 9DZ; InCrops Networking Event on Biolubricants (‘Oiling a Green Economy’): 16 Nov 2010, 16:30-18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD; CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News - BIS announces £200m funding for Technology Innovation Centres
Funding Opportunities - upcoming and current TSB calls; deadline 17 Nov 2010; FP7 calls, deadline 25 Jan 2011
Events
Conference on Sustainable Entrepreneurship, organised by These Young Minds
Thu 28 Nov, 16:00-19:30, LG17 of Law Faculty, University of Cambridge 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
Sustainable Entrepreneurship involves developing a competence in using innovative ways to harness the opportunities that solving societal challenges provide while considering the short, medium and long term impact on all stakeholders. By doing this social and economic value will be created. The event Sustainable Entrepreneurship will provide delegates the opportunity to learn: • How to build social and business value • Communicate the need for transformation • How to become a catalyst for change and aligning incentives
To view the programme and register, please visit: http://www.theseyoungminds.co.uk/events/viewevent.php?view=3
‘Biolubricants - Oiling a Green Economy’: InCrops Networking Event
Tue 16 Nov, 16:30 - 18:30, Keystone Innovation Centre, Thetford IP24 1JD
The event is for businesses interested in sustainable alternatives to petroleum derived lubricants and those involved in producing and selling lubricants. This event is FREE to attend.
Hear from Cliff Lea of Fuchs Lubricant about the use of biolubricants during construction of the Eden Project and from Simon Nash of Green Oil UK about his products and the benefits of their use in cycling.
Registration - to attend this event please contact Julia O’Rourke, InCrops events co-ordinator, by email j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or call 01603 591765 by Tuesday 9 November.
Showcase opportunities - if you produce products relevant to this event and are interested in showcasing them please contact Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, InCrops Business Innovation Manager, by email b.schlarb-ridley@uea.ac.uk or call 0777 8983612.
Please do feel free to forward this invitation to any colleagues or contacts that you are working with where it would be appropriate. Further information about the event and the InCrops Project is available at www.incropsproject.co.uk/events.
Next CPPS Lecture: Genetic and molecular studies of fruit development, Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC (http://www.jic.ac.uk/profile/Lars-Ostergaard.asp).
Thu 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking.
All welcome, no registration is necessary.
News
BIS announces £200m for Technology Innovation Centres: read more at: http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=416174&NewsAreaID=2.
Funding Opportunities
Upcoming TSB Call: Sustainable Agriculture, soft-launched at Innovate10, to open in 2011; one emphasis to be sustainable animal feed. We will bring you more information when it becomes available!
Current TSB calls: Open date: 12 October 2010 Close date: 17 Nov 2010 (variable)
Technology-Inspired Collaborative Research and Development
The core technology areas covered: Advanced Materials; Biosciences; Electronics, Photonics & Electrical Systems; High Value Manufacturing, ICT, Nanotechnology (£18m)
Further details can be downloaded from: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspired-collaborative-research-and-dev.ashx.
Manufacturing High Value Chemicals through Industrial Biotechnology
An indicative £2.5m is being invested to support feasibility and collaborative R&D projects. Collaborative R&D projects should be business-led consortia and include an end user. Feasibility projects may be business-led consortia or single companies.
Further details can be downloaded from: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/manufacturing-high-value-chemicals-through-industr.ashx.
Genomes UK: Exploiting the Potential of High-Throughput Sequencing
The Technology Strategy Board is launching a collaborative R&D competition with up to £5 million available to invest in projects using genomics-based technologies. This initiative seeks to highlight the opportunities created by the decrease in cost and increase in speed in highthroughput sequencing technology. Projects should be business-led and seek to develop new products or processes.
Further details can be downloaded from: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/genomes-uk-exploiting-the-potential-of-high-throug.ashx.
FP7 calls “Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnologies”
The primary aim in funding Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) research under FP7 is to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) by bringing together all industries and economic sectors that produce, manage and exploit biological resources and related services, supply or consumer industries, such as food, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, etc.
The theme is based on three activity areas:
• Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
• Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well-being
• Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes
Participation is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals from research institutes and universities to SMEs and large companies. Essentially, any “legal entity” is eligible with different participation rules applying depending on the research initiative in question. Generally, consortia require three legal entities from three different EU member states or associated countries as a bare minimum.
The concrete plans for implementing the specific programmes are announced by the Commission in annual “Work Programmes” (WP), which include the schedules of “Calls for proposals” to be published during the year.
Work Programme 2011
Call title: KBBE 2011- general call for proposals
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2011-5
Date of publication: 20 July 2010
Deadline: 25 January 2011 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
Indicative budget: € 240.27 million from 2011 budget
More information and the full work programme 2011 for this Cooperation theme 2 are available on the Cordis website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/kbbe/home_en.html.
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 12 Nov 2010).
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Vacancy for Postdoc
Postdoc (up to 4 yrs) statistical genetics for genomic selection
The work involves a challenging mix of statistical method development, implementation in software, experimental design and data analysis to make substantial contributions to ongoing field trials of barley. The post is based in UCL Genetics Institute in central London, with visits to collaborators in public research institutes and industry, based in Cambridge, Lincoln, Dundee and in France.
The post is funded by the EPSRC, under the Technology Strategy Board programme "New Approaches to Crop Protection".
For further details visit the UGI website (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ugi/vacancies/)
Closing date Nov 5 2010
The work involves a challenging mix of statistical method development, implementation in software, experimental design and data analysis to make substantial contributions to ongoing field trials of barley. The post is based in UCL Genetics Institute in central London, with visits to collaborators in public research institutes and industry, based in Cambridge, Lincoln, Dundee and in France.
The post is funded by the EPSRC, under the Technology Strategy Board programme "New Approaches to Crop Protection".
For further details visit the UGI website (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ugi/vacancies/)
Closing date Nov 5 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Vacancy for Managing Editor, The Plant Journal
Wiley Blackwell are looking to recruit someone with a PhD or equivalent in Plant Sciences (or similar) with an understanding of publishing to work as a Managing Editor for The Plant Journal. This is a prestigious journal and the Editorial Board are keen to get the best possible candidates for the role.
All the details and how to apply can be found here. Closing date is 11 October.
All the details and how to apply can be found here. Closing date is 11 October.
Friday, October 1, 2010
CPPS News September 2010
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to other members of your organization. If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 22 October 2010.
Funding Opportunities –upcoming TSB calls; deadline 17 Nov 2010; FP7 calls, deadline 25 Jan 2011
Events –CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News –new CPPS website now live; BSPB Report on Economic Impact of Plant Breeding in the UK; Building work at NIAB; update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation: meeting on 14 Oct cancelled.
Upcoming TSB calls: Open date: 12 October 2010. Close date: 17 Nov 2010 (variable)
Technology-Inspired Collaborative Research and Development
The core technology areas covered by this competition are: Advanced Materials; Biosciences; Electronics, Photonics & Electrical Systems; High Value Manufacturing, ICT, Nanotechnology. Up to £18m will be invested.
Further details can be downloaded from:
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspired-collaborative-research-and-dev.ashx
Manufacturing High Value Chemicals through Industrial Biotechnology
An indicative £2.5m is being invested to support feasibility and collaborative R&D projects.
Collaborative R&D projects should be business-led consortia and include an end user. Feasibility projects may be business-led consortia or single companies.
Further details can be downloaded from:
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/manufacturing-high-value-chemicals-through-industr.ashx
Genomes UK: Exploiting the Potential of High-Throughput Sequencing
The Technology Strategy Board is launching a collaborative R&D competition with up to £5 million available to invest in projects using genomics-based technologies. This initiative seeks to highlight the opportunities created by the decrease in cost and increase in speed in highthroughput sequencing technology. Projects should be business-led and seek to develop new products or processes.
Further details can be downloaded from:
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/genomes-uk-exploiting-the-potential-of-high-throug.ashx
FP7 calls "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnologies"
The primary aim in funding Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) research under FP7 is to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) by bringing together all industries and economic sectors that produce, manage and exploit biological resources and related services, supply or consumer industries, such as food, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, etc.
The theme is based on three activity areas:
- Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
- Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well-being
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes
Participation is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals from research institutes and universities to SMEs and large companies. Essentially, any "legal entity" is eligible with different participation rules applying depending on the research initiative in question. Generally, consortia require three legal entities from three different EU member states or associated countries as a bare minimum.
The concrete plans for implementing the specific programmes are announced by the Commission in annual "Work Programmes" (WP), which include the schedules of "Calls for proposals" to be published during the year.
Work Programme 2011
Call title: KBBE 2011- general call for proposals
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2011-5
Date of publication: 20 July 2010
Deadline: 25 January 2011 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
Indicative budget: € 240.27 million from 2011 budget
More information and the full work programme 2011 for this Cooperation theme 2 are available on the Cordis website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/kbbe/home_en.html
Next CPPS Lecture
Advance notice for your diaries: The next CPPS lecture will be given by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC on 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking. All welcome, no registration is necessary.
CPPS website
The re-designed CPPS website is now live; thank you to all those who have given their input. Please let us know if you find any bugs in your browser; since we did this in-house with a rather limited budget, it might still need perfecting! I hope you will find it useful.
BSPB report on Economic Impact of Plant Breeding in the UK
This BSPB report can now be downloaded from http://www.bspb.co.uk/documents/BSPB%20impact%20final%20report.pdf.
Building work at NIAB - Park Farm Glasshouses open for business
Ever wondered what all the building work at NIAB is about?
Here is a progress report on the first, now completed stage: The NIAB Park Farm Glasshouses. Further updates will follow. Contact kate.parsley@niab.com for more information!
"These eight state-of-the-art glasshouses are a superb start to NIAB’s long-term major capital redevelopment programme at our Cambridge site which will include a new fieldstation at Park Farm and a smaller but redeveloped footprint at Huntingdon Road," said NIAB Chief Executive Tina Barsby.
"The glasshouses are five metres high, but vary in length and technology installed depending on the specific crop requirements. Some glasshouses have been separated into stand-alone compartments, allowing different environmental conditions to be created. An on-site weather station connected to the glasshouse climate control system automatically regulates temperature and humidity," said NIAB’s Client Services Director John Hutchins who has overseen the development.
The 1,824 m2 glasshouse complex replaces the 1,712 m2 destined for demolition in 2010 at Huntingdon Road, a mile south of Park Farm over the main A14 road separating the entire NIAB site. "While there is little difference in the actual footprint of the glasshouses, the new facilities utilise the space more efficiently, for example with the moving benches, so the growing space is far greater. Other aspects include the supplementary lighting complemented by blackout blinds to reduce light pollution for nearby residents. One glasshouse has metal halide (mercury) lights. They provide a lighting regime with more blue suitable for some crops such as potatoes," explained John.
The original planning permission anticipated future site expansion with plans for a covered walkway linking all the glasshouses and extending the service building. Having developed the overall complex from a green field site, Dr Hutchins concluded the infrastructure and space for two further glasshouses and growth rooms is now in place and will allow further expansion as NIAB’s business grows.
New technology installed in the glasshouses includes:
• thermal and shade roof shades
• full blackout blinds
• fingertip control moving benches
• automatic irrigation
• aphid screens on the vents
• supplementary grow lighting of different intensities
• night-break lighting for manipulating plant growth and flowering
Update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation
Further to the update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation sent in the last newsletter, please note that the launch meeting to be held on October 14th at Stoneleigh Park has been postponed; new date tbc:
'As I mentioned before, we have revised and upscaled the ambition of our plans as a result of the feedback we have had from across the industry. The meeting planned for October 14th is just going to come too quickly, therefore we are postponing it.'
Please therefore remove 14th October from your diary. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes, but we are sure that wider consultation with industry will yield much greater rewards in the long term.
We are delighted that great strides have already been made to get all the major industry organisations committed to collaborate on this issue and look forward to building on this great opportunity.’
For further information please contact: Ian Beecher-Jones, Project Manager
T: 01491 642 300; M: 07967 637 985; E: ian@beecherjones.com.
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 22 Oct 2010).
Content in Summary:
Funding Opportunities –upcoming TSB calls; deadline 17 Nov 2010; FP7 calls, deadline 25 Jan 2011
Events –CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News –new CPPS website now live; BSPB Report on Economic Impact of Plant Breeding in the UK; Building work at NIAB; update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation: meeting on 14 Oct cancelled.
Funding Opportunities
Upcoming TSB calls: Open date: 12 October 2010. Close date: 17 Nov 2010 (variable)
Technology-Inspired Collaborative Research and Development
The core technology areas covered by this competition are: Advanced Materials; Biosciences; Electronics, Photonics & Electrical Systems; High Value Manufacturing, ICT, Nanotechnology. Up to £18m will be invested.
Further details can be downloaded from:
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspired-collaborative-research-and-dev.ashx
Manufacturing High Value Chemicals through Industrial Biotechnology
An indicative £2.5m is being invested to support feasibility and collaborative R&D projects.
Collaborative R&D projects should be business-led consortia and include an end user. Feasibility projects may be business-led consortia or single companies.
Further details can be downloaded from:
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/manufacturing-high-value-chemicals-through-industr.ashx
Genomes UK: Exploiting the Potential of High-Throughput Sequencing
The Technology Strategy Board is launching a collaborative R&D competition with up to £5 million available to invest in projects using genomics-based technologies. This initiative seeks to highlight the opportunities created by the decrease in cost and increase in speed in highthroughput sequencing technology. Projects should be business-led and seek to develop new products or processes.
Further details can be downloaded from:
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/genomes-uk-exploiting-the-potential-of-high-throug.ashx
FP7 calls "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnologies"
The primary aim in funding Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology (FAFB) research under FP7 is to build a European Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) by bringing together all industries and economic sectors that produce, manage and exploit biological resources and related services, supply or consumer industries, such as food, fisheries, forestry, agriculture, etc.
The theme is based on three activity areas:
- Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments
- Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well-being
- Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes
Participation is open to a wide range of organisations and individuals from research institutes and universities to SMEs and large companies. Essentially, any "legal entity" is eligible with different participation rules applying depending on the research initiative in question. Generally, consortia require three legal entities from three different EU member states or associated countries as a bare minimum.
The concrete plans for implementing the specific programmes are announced by the Commission in annual "Work Programmes" (WP), which include the schedules of "Calls for proposals" to be published during the year.
Work Programme 2011
Call title: KBBE 2011- general call for proposals
Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2011-5
Date of publication: 20 July 2010
Deadline: 25 January 2011 at 17.00.00 (Brussels local time)
Indicative budget: € 240.27 million from 2011 budget
More information and the full work programme 2011 for this Cooperation theme 2 are available on the Cordis website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/kbbe/home_en.html
Events
Next CPPS Lecture
Advance notice for your diaries: The next CPPS lecture will be given by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC on 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking. All welcome, no registration is necessary.
News
CPPS website
The re-designed CPPS website is now live; thank you to all those who have given their input. Please let us know if you find any bugs in your browser; since we did this in-house with a rather limited budget, it might still need perfecting! I hope you will find it useful.
BSPB report on Economic Impact of Plant Breeding in the UK
This BSPB report can now be downloaded from http://www.bspb.co.uk/documents/BSPB%20impact%20final%20report.pdf.
Building work at NIAB - Park Farm Glasshouses open for business
Ever wondered what all the building work at NIAB is about?
Here is a progress report on the first, now completed stage: The NIAB Park Farm Glasshouses. Further updates will follow. Contact kate.parsley@niab.com for more information!
"These eight state-of-the-art glasshouses are a superb start to NIAB’s long-term major capital redevelopment programme at our Cambridge site which will include a new fieldstation at Park Farm and a smaller but redeveloped footprint at Huntingdon Road," said NIAB Chief Executive Tina Barsby.
"The glasshouses are five metres high, but vary in length and technology installed depending on the specific crop requirements. Some glasshouses have been separated into stand-alone compartments, allowing different environmental conditions to be created. An on-site weather station connected to the glasshouse climate control system automatically regulates temperature and humidity," said NIAB’s Client Services Director John Hutchins who has overseen the development.
The 1,824 m2 glasshouse complex replaces the 1,712 m2 destined for demolition in 2010 at Huntingdon Road, a mile south of Park Farm over the main A14 road separating the entire NIAB site. "While there is little difference in the actual footprint of the glasshouses, the new facilities utilise the space more efficiently, for example with the moving benches, so the growing space is far greater. Other aspects include the supplementary lighting complemented by blackout blinds to reduce light pollution for nearby residents. One glasshouse has metal halide (mercury) lights. They provide a lighting regime with more blue suitable for some crops such as potatoes," explained John.
The original planning permission anticipated future site expansion with plans for a covered walkway linking all the glasshouses and extending the service building. Having developed the overall complex from a green field site, Dr Hutchins concluded the infrastructure and space for two further glasshouses and growth rooms is now in place and will allow further expansion as NIAB’s business grows.
New technology installed in the glasshouses includes:
• thermal and shade roof shades
• full blackout blinds
• fingertip control moving benches
• automatic irrigation
• aphid screens on the vents
• supplementary grow lighting of different intensities
• night-break lighting for manipulating plant growth and flowering
Update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation
Further to the update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation sent in the last newsletter, please note that the launch meeting to be held on October 14th at Stoneleigh Park has been postponed; new date tbc:
'As I mentioned before, we have revised and upscaled the ambition of our plans as a result of the feedback we have had from across the industry. The meeting planned for October 14th is just going to come too quickly, therefore we are postponing it.'
Please therefore remove 14th October from your diary. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes, but we are sure that wider consultation with industry will yield much greater rewards in the long term.
We are delighted that great strides have already been made to get all the major industry organisations committed to collaborate on this issue and look forward to building on this great opportunity.’
For further information please contact: Ian Beecher-Jones, Project Manager
T: 01491 642 300; M: 07967 637 985; E: ian@beecherjones.com.
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 22 Oct 2010).
Monday, September 6, 2010
Job opportunities - closing 10th September
Term Contract Employment and Training Opportunities
Limagrain UK Ltd is the UK operating company of the Field Seeds Division of Groupe Limagrain (Limagrain.com) the largest plant breeder and seed company in Europe. Limagrain UK Ltd (Limagrain.co.uk), the largest UK arable and forage crop seed company, offers a wide variety of challenging roles across a broad range of areas. The company is pleased to be able to offer two opportunities in its company’s R&D team to gain experience of working in a commercial plant breeding environment. Both roles are at our research station at Docking, near Fakenham in North Norfolk.
Double-Haploid Research Assistant:
This is a 12 month contract (with the potential for extension) in our Double-Haploid Laboratory for an individual, ideally with plant tissue culture experience, to launch a challenging research project in a well equipped DH facility. We are seeking a self motivated candidate with experience as a ‘bench based’ researcher. The successful applicant will have a tenacious approach to hands-on research with the ability to manage the project in collaboration with the Doubled-Haploid Laboratory Manager, Claire Newell. Good organization and time management skills, together with an aptitude for producing high quality and precise work, are required.
Assistant Plant Breeder: T
This is a 12 month contract within our pea and minor crops breeding team, resulting from a need to provide maternity cover, for an individual interested in pursuing a career in plant breeding. The role will be to support the team’s objective to breed commercial varieties, providing practical assistance in all aspects of a demanding field and glasshouse based program. The job will include opportunities to work in glasshouses and in all aspects of trials and nursery preparation, fieldwork and harvesting. Training in the use of equipment and machinery will be provided. The job requires an enthusiastic, adaptable and practical person with a good theoretical grounding in genetics and an eye for detail. The role will report to Will Pillinger, Pea and Minor Crops Breeder.
Applicants should have sound knowledge of plant science and genetics, and have completed formal relevant training to BSc, MSc or PhD level. They should also possess excellent communication skills, be computer literate and have the ability to produce verbal and written reports of their activities. Experience of plant tissue culture would be a strong advantage for the Doubled-Haploid Research Assistant role. A full driving license is required for the Assistant Plant Breeder role.
Applicants can contact as they feel appropriate for further information:
At Docking:
Claire Newell, claire.newell@limagrain.co.uk
Will Pillinger will.pillinger@limagrian.co.uk
Telephone 01485 518501
Or Thomas Jolliffe, R&D Manager, thomas.jolliffe@limagrain.co.uk
Telephone 07836 348364
Letters of formal applications should be submitted with CV by e-mail to:
Sandra Hatt
Personnel Officer
Limagrain UK Ltd
Rothwell
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
LN7 6DT
sandra.hatt@limagrain.co.uk
Telephone 01472 370122
The closing date for applications is Friday 10 September 2010
Newsletter – August 2010
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to other members of your organisation. If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 16 September 2010.
Jobs – ATC Biotech, short term position (Plant Tissue Culture Specialist; deadline 10 Sept).
Events – Biochar Lecture: 10 Sept, 12:00 at Rothamsted Conference Centre, AL5 2JQ; advance notice: CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News – Industry Survey about Biology Degree Accreditation (Society of Biology); Building work at NIAB; update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation
ATC Biotech - Plant Tissue Culture Specialist
ATC have a temporary position for one month initially (October), but are looking at recruiting a permanent position next year. Applicants need to be competent in: media making, sterile technique, handling bacterial strains, cutting leaf discs and shoots, and will need to carry out a small amount of plant husbandry. Salary will be approx. £19 - 21K pro rata. Please email susie.davenport@atcbiotech.com for further information.
The closing date for applications is 10 Sept 2010.
Lecture and visit by Prof Santhanakrishnan from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Prof Santhanakrishnan is an authority on soil microbiology, biofuels and food microbiology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India. He will visit Cambridge on Thu 9 Sept (am: University, pm: NIAB) and Rothamsted Research on Fri 10 Sept; the latter including a lecture:
Biofertiliser research and application in India
12:00, Friday 10th September 2010
Conference Centre, Rothamsted Research, AL5 2JQ
Prof Santhanakrishnan’s lecture is open to the general public but places are limited. If you wish to attend, or would like to meet Prof Santhanakrishnan either in Cambridge on 9 Sept or Rothamsted on 10 Sept, please contact Julia O’Rourke at j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or phone 01603 591 765 to reserve your place.
Next CPPS Lecture
Advance notice for your diaries: The next CPPS lecture will be given by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC on 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking. All welcome, no registration is necessary.
Society of Biology - Biology Degree Accreditation – Industry Survey
The Society of Biology is currently developing criteria to accredit biological science degrees that will enable business to select those graduates with high quality practical skills more easily. The Society is aiming to pilot an accreditation process in 2010-2011 and will announce its accreditation criteria later this year. The Society is currently seeking the views of businesses on accreditation via a brief online survey.
Please take a moment to complete the online Industry Survey on Accredited Degrees (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XR6TB67); it is an opportunity for your business' needs to shape an Accreditation Programme which aims to help employers identify those bioscience graduates with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for employment in today's bioscience-related industries.
Learn more about Degree Accreditation from the Society of Biology at http://www.societyofbiology.org/education/hei/accreditation. If you have any questions regarding the survey or Accreditation in general, Niamh Johnson (NiamhJohnston@societyofbiology.org) at the Society of Biology is happy to answer these.
Building work at NIAB
Ever wondered what all the building work at NIAB is about? Read all about it in the next CPPS newsletter, or contact Lydia.Smith@niab.com for more information if you can’t wait until then!
Update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation
In the June Newsletter you were introduced to Agriculture’s Big Conversation; here is an update:
We have to alert a new generation to the potential of an agriculturally related career. At the same time, the farming and related industries need an opportunity to “sell themselves” to new generations of young people as they enter the workforce or embark on the further education programmes that will prepare them for work on farms or in the businesses that buy from, sell to or provide services for farmers.
The revised initiative will comprise:
To achieve that, we believe that we must do more than just get work experience candidates on a farm for a few days where they see only part of what the industry has to offer and where, in many cases, it is difficult for the host farmer to manage the young person’s presence safely and positively.
Together, we plan to create a positive and bespoke work experience package for young people who express an interest in a farming related career. Such a programme needs co-ordinating and planning but it should not be beyond the capacity of the industry to do that. RASE and FACE have offered themselves as organisations prepared to take a central role in moving the concept forward. Others are coming on board. The initiative will be launched at a meeting to be held on October 14th at Stoneleigh Park. Another key date for your diary is the Careers in Agriculture Convention to be held at Stoneleigh Park on November 3-5th 2011.
For further information please contact: Ian Beecher-Jones, Project Manager
T: 01491 642 300; M: 07967 637 985; E: ian@beecherjones.com.
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 16 Sept 2010).
Content in Summary:
Jobs – ATC Biotech, short term position (Plant Tissue Culture Specialist; deadline 10 Sept).
Events – Biochar Lecture: 10 Sept, 12:00 at Rothamsted Conference Centre, AL5 2JQ; advance notice: CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News – Industry Survey about Biology Degree Accreditation (Society of Biology); Building work at NIAB; update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation
Jobs
ATC Biotech - Plant Tissue Culture Specialist
ATC have a temporary position for one month initially (October), but are looking at recruiting a permanent position next year. Applicants need to be competent in: media making, sterile technique, handling bacterial strains, cutting leaf discs and shoots, and will need to carry out a small amount of plant husbandry. Salary will be approx. £19 - 21K pro rata. Please email susie.davenport@atcbiotech.com for further information.
The closing date for applications is 10 Sept 2010.
Events
Lecture and visit by Prof Santhanakrishnan from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Prof Santhanakrishnan is an authority on soil microbiology, biofuels and food microbiology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India. He will visit Cambridge on Thu 9 Sept (am: University, pm: NIAB) and Rothamsted Research on Fri 10 Sept; the latter including a lecture:
Biofertiliser research and application in India
12:00, Friday 10th September 2010
Conference Centre, Rothamsted Research, AL5 2JQ
Prof Santhanakrishnan’s lecture is open to the general public but places are limited. If you wish to attend, or would like to meet Prof Santhanakrishnan either in Cambridge on 9 Sept or Rothamsted on 10 Sept, please contact Julia O’Rourke at j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or phone 01603 591 765 to reserve your place.
Next CPPS Lecture
Advance notice for your diaries: The next CPPS lecture will be given by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC on 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking. All welcome, no registration is necessary.
News
Society of Biology - Biology Degree Accreditation – Industry Survey
The Society of Biology is currently developing criteria to accredit biological science degrees that will enable business to select those graduates with high quality practical skills more easily. The Society is aiming to pilot an accreditation process in 2010-2011 and will announce its accreditation criteria later this year. The Society is currently seeking the views of businesses on accreditation via a brief online survey.
Please take a moment to complete the online Industry Survey on Accredited Degrees (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XR6TB67); it is an opportunity for your business' needs to shape an Accreditation Programme which aims to help employers identify those bioscience graduates with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for employment in today's bioscience-related industries.
Learn more about Degree Accreditation from the Society of Biology at http://www.societyofbiology.org/education/hei/accreditation. If you have any questions regarding the survey or Accreditation in general, Niamh Johnson (NiamhJohnston@societyofbiology.org) at the Society of Biology is happy to answer these.
Building work at NIAB
Ever wondered what all the building work at NIAB is about? Read all about it in the next CPPS newsletter, or contact Lydia.Smith@niab.com for more information if you can’t wait until then!
Update on Agriculture’s Big Conversation
In the June Newsletter you were introduced to Agriculture’s Big Conversation; here is an update:
We have to alert a new generation to the potential of an agriculturally related career. At the same time, the farming and related industries need an opportunity to “sell themselves” to new generations of young people as they enter the workforce or embark on the further education programmes that will prepare them for work on farms or in the businesses that buy from, sell to or provide services for farmers.
The revised initiative will comprise:
- A joint approach from all sectors of the industry led by NFU, Agricultural Industries Confederation and RASE;
- The creation and publication of material which promotes the entire chain including farms and their suppliers and buyers right through to food manufacture and marketing, as a career destination for young people and demonstrates the huge and varied career potential;
- Joining farmers and other in-chain businesses in a measured and manageable involvement in work experience tailored to the specific requirement of students;
- A programme to alert teachers and career advisors of the scope and potential of the farm and food industry and emphasises that such careers are high skill, high tech, high satisfaction and potentially high in rewards.
To achieve that, we believe that we must do more than just get work experience candidates on a farm for a few days where they see only part of what the industry has to offer and where, in many cases, it is difficult for the host farmer to manage the young person’s presence safely and positively.
Together, we plan to create a positive and bespoke work experience package for young people who express an interest in a farming related career. Such a programme needs co-ordinating and planning but it should not be beyond the capacity of the industry to do that. RASE and FACE have offered themselves as organisations prepared to take a central role in moving the concept forward. Others are coming on board. The initiative will be launched at a meeting to be held on October 14th at Stoneleigh Park. Another key date for your diary is the Careers in Agriculture Convention to be held at Stoneleigh Park on November 3-5th 2011.
For further information please contact: Ian Beecher-Jones, Project Manager
T: 01491 642 300; M: 07967 637 985; E: ian@beecherjones.com.
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, or to unsubscribe, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk (deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is 16 Sept 2010).
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Newletter - July 2010
Welcome to new members: The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), Link China Pharma Solutions Ltd, Cambridge Eco, British Field Crops and Agriculture's Big Conversation.
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to other members of your organisation. If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 20 August.
Content in Summary:
News – Update of CPPS Website: please send logos by 31 July; how to opt out of listing on members page; Building work at NIAB
Jobs – Limagrain: Plant Breeder (Oil Seed Rape; deadline 31 July)
Funding Opportunities – BBSRC CASE Studentships (deadline 28 July, 16:00)
Call for Research Collaboration – on GM modified white clover for methane reduction, with NZ Research institute
Next CPPS Event – CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News
Update of CPPS website
As mentioned in previous emails, we are currently updating and re-designing the CPPS website (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/). Thank you to those who have already sent in web-compatible logos for their organisations. If you would like to see your logo included in the new website, please send it to bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 31 July. The new members-page will list all organisations who receive this newsletter. If you would prefer not to have your organisation (with web link) included in the list of members on the web page, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 31 July.
Building work at NIAB
Ever wondered what all the building work at NIAB is about? Read all about it in the next CPPS newsletter, or contact Lydia.Smith@niab.com for more information if you can’t wait until then!
Jobs
Limagrain - Plant Breeders – Oilseed Rape
An opportunity has arisen in the UK arm of the Limagrain Oilseed Rape programme for a plant breeder to join a small group of highly motivated individuals developing winter oilseed rape varieties throughout Europe. The appointment is part of a planned succession process and the successful applicant will be capable of eventually assuming full responsibility for the UK winter rape programme.
The position requires an individual well versed in the recent advances of molecular genetics but with the ability to translate these into the development of varieties and new breeding techniques. Plant breeding encompasses a wide range of disciplines: agronomy, pathology, analytical chemistry, molecular biology, statistics, mathematical modelling and genetics. The successful applicant will have the ability to manage a small team working with multiple skills in a logistically complex programme. The position is a senior technical appointment and therefore offers considerable scope for someone able to provide leadership in an innovative environment.
Applicants should have a good knowledge of plant science and genetics with formal relevant training to at least BSc level. Post Graduate training would be an advantage as would experience of plant breeding.
The position is rewarded with an attractive remuneration and employment package. The closing date for applications is 31st July 2010.
In the first instance applications of interest may be submitted by e-mail to Dr Thomas Jolliffe email: thomas.jolliffe@limagrain.co.uk.
Alternatively, please send a covering letter and CV to
Funding Opportunities
BBSRC Industrial CASE Studentship Competition 2010
Industrial CASE PhDs provide research training in an area of relevance to an industrial partner and are an excellent means of knowledge exchange between the academic and commercial worlds. BSBRC’s Industrial CASE Studentship Competition will award Doctoral Training Grants (DTGs) for start in October 2011 to support collaborative postgraduate research training leading to a PhD. Proposals for Industrial CASE studentship funding can be submitted by either the industrial company or an individual academic supervisor (citing an industrial partner). Full details of the competition are on the BBSRC website at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/training/industrialcase.aspx.
Awards: Awards will be made in the form of flexible 4-year Doctoral Training Grants managed by the academic partner. Further information on these, including a full set of FAQs are available to download on the BBSRC website at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/studentships/case.aspx.
Proposal Process: Proposals may be made by companies registered for business and trading in the UK with a UK research and/or manufacturing base, or supervisors from eligible UK universities or research institutes. Proposals are particularly welcomed from SMEs.
Proposals should be submitted through the Research Council Je-S system at https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk by 4pm, 28 July 2010. Proposals submitted after 4pm will not be accepted. Applicants will need to create a registered Je-S account in order to submit proposals.
Call for Research Collaboration
AgResearch, New Zealand's largest research institute are looking for research partners offshore for a GM modified crop of white clover that will reduce methane emissions from cows and sheep.
Interested UK Organisations should contact the IATC (info@iatc.org.uk) for more details.
Next CPPS Event
Advance notice for your diaries: The next CPPS lecture will be given by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC on 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking. All welcome, no registration is necessary.
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to other members of your organisation. If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to see included in the next newsletter, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 20 August.
Content in Summary:
News – Update of CPPS Website: please send logos by 31 July; how to opt out of listing on members page; Building work at NIAB
Jobs – Limagrain: Plant Breeder (Oil Seed Rape; deadline 31 July)
Funding Opportunities – BBSRC CASE Studentships (deadline 28 July, 16:00)
Call for Research Collaboration – on GM modified white clover for methane reduction, with NZ Research institute
Next CPPS Event – CPPS lecture by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC: 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking
News
Update of CPPS website
As mentioned in previous emails, we are currently updating and re-designing the CPPS website (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/). Thank you to those who have already sent in web-compatible logos for their organisations. If you would like to see your logo included in the new website, please send it to bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 31 July. The new members-page will list all organisations who receive this newsletter. If you would prefer not to have your organisation (with web link) included in the list of members on the web page, please email bgs21@cam.ac.uk by 31 July.
Building work at NIAB
Ever wondered what all the building work at NIAB is about? Read all about it in the next CPPS newsletter, or contact Lydia.Smith@niab.com for more information if you can’t wait until then!
Jobs
Limagrain - Plant Breeders – Oilseed Rape
An opportunity has arisen in the UK arm of the Limagrain Oilseed Rape programme for a plant breeder to join a small group of highly motivated individuals developing winter oilseed rape varieties throughout Europe. The appointment is part of a planned succession process and the successful applicant will be capable of eventually assuming full responsibility for the UK winter rape programme.
The position requires an individual well versed in the recent advances of molecular genetics but with the ability to translate these into the development of varieties and new breeding techniques. Plant breeding encompasses a wide range of disciplines: agronomy, pathology, analytical chemistry, molecular biology, statistics, mathematical modelling and genetics. The successful applicant will have the ability to manage a small team working with multiple skills in a logistically complex programme. The position is a senior technical appointment and therefore offers considerable scope for someone able to provide leadership in an innovative environment.
Applicants should have a good knowledge of plant science and genetics with formal relevant training to at least BSc level. Post Graduate training would be an advantage as would experience of plant breeding.
The position is rewarded with an attractive remuneration and employment package. The closing date for applications is 31st July 2010.
In the first instance applications of interest may be submitted by e-mail to Dr Thomas Jolliffe email: thomas.jolliffe@limagrain.co.uk.
Alternatively, please send a covering letter and CV to
Mrs Sandra Hatt
Limagrain UK Ltd
Rothwell
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
LN7 6DT
email: sandra.hatt@limagrain.co.uk
Telephone: 01472 370122
Fax: 01472 371106
Funding Opportunities
BBSRC Industrial CASE Studentship Competition 2010
Industrial CASE PhDs provide research training in an area of relevance to an industrial partner and are an excellent means of knowledge exchange between the academic and commercial worlds. BSBRC’s Industrial CASE Studentship Competition will award Doctoral Training Grants (DTGs) for start in October 2011 to support collaborative postgraduate research training leading to a PhD. Proposals for Industrial CASE studentship funding can be submitted by either the industrial company or an individual academic supervisor (citing an industrial partner). Full details of the competition are on the BBSRC website at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/training/industrialcase.aspx.
Awards: Awards will be made in the form of flexible 4-year Doctoral Training Grants managed by the academic partner. Further information on these, including a full set of FAQs are available to download on the BBSRC website at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/studentships/case.aspx.
Proposal Process: Proposals may be made by companies registered for business and trading in the UK with a UK research and/or manufacturing base, or supervisors from eligible UK universities or research institutes. Proposals are particularly welcomed from SMEs.
Proposals should be submitted through the Research Council Je-S system at https://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk by 4pm, 28 July 2010. Proposals submitted after 4pm will not be accepted. Applicants will need to create a registered Je-S account in order to submit proposals.
Closing date for proposals: 4pm, 28 July 2010
For further information contact 01793 413256 or e-mail postgrad.studentships@bbsrc.ac.uk
For industrial company eligibility queries ONLY contact 01793 413275 or e-mail
mary.mcdonagh@bbsrc.ac.uk.
For Je-S specific queries contact 01793 444164 or e-mail JeSHelp@rcuk.ac.uk.
Call for Research Collaboration
AgResearch, New Zealand's largest research institute are looking for research partners offshore for a GM modified crop of white clover that will reduce methane emissions from cows and sheep.
Interested UK Organisations should contact the IATC (info@iatc.org.uk) for more details.
Next CPPS Event
Advance notice for your diaries: The next CPPS lecture will be given by Dr Lars Ostergaard, JIC on 25 Nov 2010, 16:00-17:00 at the Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge CB2 3EA, followed by networking. All welcome, no registration is necessary.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
CPPS Open Day at NIAB 16th July
Invitation to a tour of the new Innovation Farm
16th JULY 2010, 15.30 – 17.00, NIAB Cambridge
Displays this year focus on crop genetic improvement and demonstrate progress in improving the yield, quality, performance, seasonality, diversity and resource use efficiency of key crops, alongside the contribution of advanced breeding methods, efficient agronomy and the development of novel and nonfood crops.
Learn about NIAB's development of the Innovation Farm Facility and how this will develop into the future. NIAB welcome your input and views about whether this can help you, and what you would envisage its role within CPPS to be.
Download the flier for more information.
16th JULY 2010, 15.30 – 17.00, NIAB Cambridge
Displays this year focus on crop genetic improvement and demonstrate progress in improving the yield, quality, performance, seasonality, diversity and resource use efficiency of key crops, alongside the contribution of advanced breeding methods, efficient agronomy and the development of novel and nonfood crops.
Learn about NIAB's development of the Innovation Farm Facility and how this will develop into the future. NIAB welcome your input and views about whether this can help you, and what you would envisage its role within CPPS to be.
Download the flier for more information.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Newletter - June 2010
Content in Summary:
Events – CPPS Open Day at NIAB’s Innovation Farm 16 July; Royal Society Festival of Arts and Science, Dept of Plant Sciences exhibiting 26 June-4 July; Brooms Barn Open Day 29 June; British Ecological Society Symposium at NIAB 15 July
Jobs – BSPB: IP Enforcement Manager (deadline 30 June)
Recruiting the next generation in to agricultural industries – Work Inspiration Campaign in Agriculture; Agriculture’s Big Conversation 14 October 2010 at the NAC, Stoneleigh – CALL FOR SUPPORT
Events
The next CPPS-event is a dedicated Open Day at NIAB’s new Innovation Farm, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE on Fri 16 July, 3:30-17:00 – an excellent networking opportunity following on from the CPPS Symposium in April! The afternoon will start at the new Innovation Farm Visitor Centre, sponsored by EEDA, situated in the NIAB Cambridge Headquarters west wing, followed by visits to field and, we hope to the growth room demonstration facilities. There will be an opportunity to discuss some examples of research that is ongoing and how it might be relevant to you and your business/research. We will end with a question and answer session back at the Visitor Centre followed by tea and coffee. FREE registration – simply email bgs21@cam.ac.uk to indicate you will come.
Royal Society Festival of Arts and Science (Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge, exhibiting "Meet the Algae: Diversity, Biology and Energy": 26 June – 4 July, 10:00-20:30, at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX . Full details can be found at: http://seefurtherfestival.org/exhibition/view/meet-algae-diversity-biology-and-energy.
Brooms Barn Open Day: 29 June, 13:00-16:30, in Higham, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6NP. If you would like to attend please register, by email: christine.hobart@bbsrc.ac.uk or Fax: 01284 811191. Full details can be found at: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/broom/events/
British Ecological Society Symposium at NIAB: 15 July, 9:30-16:15, at NIAB Innovation Farm, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE. Full details, incl. programme and application form, can be found at: http://www.niab.com/innovation_farm/id/205/Events
Jobs
British Society of Plant Breeders – IP Enforcement Manager
BSPB is the royalty collection agency and representative body for the UK’s plant breeding industry. We are seeking a full time manager for our audit and enforcement section.
As part of the BSPB management team you will manage the Society’s audit, enforcement and investigation activities in relation to both certified and farm saved seed. You must have managerial experience, strong organisational ability, excellent communication skills and a high level of IT competence. Experience in investigation and enforcement would be highly beneficial. You will be based in our office in Ely.
Applications should be sent in the form of a CV and covering letter including current salary details to BSPB Ltd, Woolpack Chambers, Market Street, Ely, Cambs CB7 4ND or by e-mail to enquiries@bspb.co.uk by 30th June 2010. For an informal discussion call 01353 653201.
Recruiting the next generation in to agricultural industries – CALL FOR SUPPORT
The farming industry needs to recruit 6,000 new people a year for the next decade to retain a labour force at the level required to maintain current levels of output. If we intend to grow the business, we need more – and better – entrants. And that 6,000 doesn’t take account of those needed in ancillary industries from agronomy to banking; merchanting to food processing. While not a crisis, this is a challenge the industry has to face up to and the sooner the better.
The challenge begins in the classroom with 14 to 16 year olds who are making decisions about GCSE and A Levels subjects – the choices which will decide the degrees or diplomas they will take and, ultimately, the career destination they will target.
Engaging students and teachers through a positive and dynamic work experience programme is key if we are to highlight the vast range of opportunities available to young people. With this in mind, RASE, Fresh Start, Business in the Community and a group of agricultural business leaders are launching Agriculture's Big Conversation – a project designed to turn work experience into work inspiration and so "turn on" young people to the exciting prospects that exist in agricultural and land-based careers.
RASE have teamed up with BITC to deliver the Work Inspiration campaign in agriculture because they all believe such a national campaign can inspire the next generation of students to consider agriculture as their career choice. Clicking the following links you will find immediate information on the concept and how work experience may work in practice.
David Yiend, Chief Executive of AB Agri has agreed to head up Agriculture’s Big Conversation which will take place on 14th October 2010 at the NAC, Stoneleigh. Denis Chamberlain, chairman of Fresh Start, is working with him.
What we need now is the full support of trade associations, representative organisations, businesses serving agriculture and farmers themselves who can play a major role in supporting this initiative. It is a project that must succeed if we’re going to address the skills shortage the industry is facing and provide the entrepreneurs, managers and leaders that we will need to meet the food, energy and environmental challenges of the future. By working together we can all make a difference.
For further information please contact Ian Beecher-Jones, Project Manager - Agriculture's Big Conversation, t: 01491 642 300, m: 07967 637 985, e: ian@beecherjones.com.
He and the project team will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Agriculture’s Big Conversation and explain how you can get involved. It is a chance for the whole industry to come together, break the work experience mould and bring in the entrants we need.
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If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to be included in the next newsletter, please email Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley (bgs21@cam.ac.uk) by 14 July 2010.
____
Previous issues of the Newsletter can be downloaded as pdfs:
January 2010;
February 2010;
March 2010;
April 2010;
May 2010;
June 2010
Events – CPPS Open Day at NIAB’s Innovation Farm 16 July; Royal Society Festival of Arts and Science, Dept of Plant Sciences exhibiting 26 June-4 July; Brooms Barn Open Day 29 June; British Ecological Society Symposium at NIAB 15 July
Jobs – BSPB: IP Enforcement Manager (deadline 30 June)
Recruiting the next generation in to agricultural industries – Work Inspiration Campaign in Agriculture; Agriculture’s Big Conversation 14 October 2010 at the NAC, Stoneleigh – CALL FOR SUPPORT
Events
The next CPPS-event is a dedicated Open Day at NIAB’s new Innovation Farm, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE on Fri 16 July, 3:30-17:00 – an excellent networking opportunity following on from the CPPS Symposium in April! The afternoon will start at the new Innovation Farm Visitor Centre, sponsored by EEDA, situated in the NIAB Cambridge Headquarters west wing, followed by visits to field and, we hope to the growth room demonstration facilities. There will be an opportunity to discuss some examples of research that is ongoing and how it might be relevant to you and your business/research. We will end with a question and answer session back at the Visitor Centre followed by tea and coffee. FREE registration – simply email bgs21@cam.ac.uk to indicate you will come.
Royal Society Festival of Arts and Science (Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge, exhibiting "Meet the Algae: Diversity, Biology and Energy": 26 June – 4 July, 10:00-20:30, at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX . Full details can be found at: http://seefurtherfestival.org/exhibition/view/meet-algae-diversity-biology-and-energy.
Brooms Barn Open Day: 29 June, 13:00-16:30, in Higham, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6NP. If you would like to attend please register, by email: christine.hobart@bbsrc.ac.uk or Fax: 01284 811191. Full details can be found at: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/broom/events/
British Ecological Society Symposium at NIAB: 15 July, 9:30-16:15, at NIAB Innovation Farm, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE. Full details, incl. programme and application form, can be found at: http://www.niab.com/innovation_farm/id/205/Events
Jobs
British Society of Plant Breeders – IP Enforcement Manager
BSPB is the royalty collection agency and representative body for the UK’s plant breeding industry. We are seeking a full time manager for our audit and enforcement section.
As part of the BSPB management team you will manage the Society’s audit, enforcement and investigation activities in relation to both certified and farm saved seed. You must have managerial experience, strong organisational ability, excellent communication skills and a high level of IT competence. Experience in investigation and enforcement would be highly beneficial. You will be based in our office in Ely.
Applications should be sent in the form of a CV and covering letter including current salary details to BSPB Ltd, Woolpack Chambers, Market Street, Ely, Cambs CB7 4ND or by e-mail to enquiries@bspb.co.uk by 30th June 2010. For an informal discussion call 01353 653201.
Recruiting the next generation in to agricultural industries – CALL FOR SUPPORT
The farming industry needs to recruit 6,000 new people a year for the next decade to retain a labour force at the level required to maintain current levels of output. If we intend to grow the business, we need more – and better – entrants. And that 6,000 doesn’t take account of those needed in ancillary industries from agronomy to banking; merchanting to food processing. While not a crisis, this is a challenge the industry has to face up to and the sooner the better.
The challenge begins in the classroom with 14 to 16 year olds who are making decisions about GCSE and A Levels subjects – the choices which will decide the degrees or diplomas they will take and, ultimately, the career destination they will target.
Engaging students and teachers through a positive and dynamic work experience programme is key if we are to highlight the vast range of opportunities available to young people. With this in mind, RASE, Fresh Start, Business in the Community and a group of agricultural business leaders are launching Agriculture's Big Conversation – a project designed to turn work experience into work inspiration and so "turn on" young people to the exciting prospects that exist in agricultural and land-based careers.
RASE have teamed up with BITC to deliver the Work Inspiration campaign in agriculture because they all believe such a national campaign can inspire the next generation of students to consider agriculture as their career choice. Clicking the following links you will find immediate information on the concept and how work experience may work in practice.
David Yiend, Chief Executive of AB Agri has agreed to head up Agriculture’s Big Conversation which will take place on 14th October 2010 at the NAC, Stoneleigh. Denis Chamberlain, chairman of Fresh Start, is working with him.
What we need now is the full support of trade associations, representative organisations, businesses serving agriculture and farmers themselves who can play a major role in supporting this initiative. It is a project that must succeed if we’re going to address the skills shortage the industry is facing and provide the entrepreneurs, managers and leaders that we will need to meet the food, energy and environmental challenges of the future. By working together we can all make a difference.
For further information please contact Ian Beecher-Jones, Project Manager - Agriculture's Big Conversation, t: 01491 642 300, m: 07967 637 985, e: ian@beecherjones.com.
He and the project team will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Agriculture’s Big Conversation and explain how you can get involved. It is a chance for the whole industry to come together, break the work experience mould and bring in the entrants we need.
____
If you have any events, news or advertisements you would like to be included in the next newsletter, please email Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley (bgs21@cam.ac.uk) by 14 July 2010.
____
Previous issues of the Newsletter can be downloaded as pdfs:
January 2010;
February 2010;
March 2010;
April 2010;
May 2010;
June 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Presentations from April's Symposium: Food Security
Presentations from the Symposium: Food Security on 23 April 2010 at NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE. (See the programme.)
Download the presentations as pdfs:
Download the presentations as pdfs:
Promoting green innovation
From an article in Research Horizons:
A regional knowledge transfer project is linking the region’s top plant science research with businesses wanting to develop new products.
Read the full article.
A regional knowledge transfer project is linking the region’s top plant science research with businesses wanting to develop new products.
Read the full article.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Natural Fibre Composites:developments & applications of biomaterials from non-food crops - 11 May 2010
Tuesday 11th May 2010, Royal Geographical Society, London
This InCrops and LTN joint event will be a discussion forum on the latest developments and applications of Natural Fibre Composites (NFC). Through case studies, the workshop will highlight the potential opportunities and perceived barriers of using NFC and future applications of bio materials.
EXAMINE the challenges of using natural fibre composites
ACCESS the latest R&D through academic posters
IDENTIFY opportunities for collaborative research partnerships between industry and academia
Registration and Payment
To register contact Holly Parker at H.Parker@LTNetwork.org or call: 0870 730 8688
Large companies (150+ employees) £80+VAT = £94
Small/medium companies (up to 149 employees) £40+VAT = £47
Academics = free
Discounts are available if you refer a friend and on multiple bookings (3 or more places).
Please call Holly Parker on 0870 730 8688 for more details.
Download the programme.
LTN events website
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Bio Based Materials in Sport, 20 April, University of Essex, Colchester
InCrops Enterprise Hub in conjunction with Centre for Sports and Exercise at the University of Essex are holding a half day event for businesses focused on Bio Based materials in sport.
This FREE event will inform businesses and industries associated with sports and outdoor activities about the range of available bio-based materials (biopolymers, natural fibres, biocomposites, nutraceuticals) and bring together those in the sports supply chain from manufacturers and developers to sports professionals.
The afternoon event will feature presentations and demonstrations of products/materials from companies developing plant-based renewable materials for applications in the sports and leisure industry. These include the use of renewable polymers from Merquinsa and Arkema Group, bamboo by RAW Bamboo Bikes and plant fibres by CelluComp Ltd.
During the event the attendees will have a unique opportunity to visit the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science at the University of Essex and learn about the facilities for testing sports gear and equipment. The event is designed to encourage networking between different stakeholders and provide the opportunity to discuss the potential for future developmental and collaborative work.
Who should participate?
Companies developing or manufacturing -
* materials for outdoor and active gear, sport clothing and equipment;
* bio monitoring, bio sensing, remote data transfer devices;
* sports drinks and performance stimulants based on plant ingredients;
* sports injuries management
Opportunity to exhibit or present at the event
There is an opportunity to exhibit or present during the event. The presentations to all delegates will be ‘spotlights’ (around 5 minutes) on a bio-based product or material.
Pilot study
We are partnering with the Centre for Sports and Exercise at the University of Essex for this event. The Centre has offered to carry out a short pilot study of bio-based products to test the product performance and athlete’s preference. The data could be presented at the event. Please contact Liliya Serazetdinova ASAP l.serazetdinova@uea.ac.uk about taking part in the pilot study.
If you wish to register for the event or are interested in taking part please contact Julia O’Rourke, event co-ordinator j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or call the InCrops Enterprise Hub on 01603 591765.
This FREE event will inform businesses and industries associated with sports and outdoor activities about the range of available bio-based materials (biopolymers, natural fibres, biocomposites, nutraceuticals) and bring together those in the sports supply chain from manufacturers and developers to sports professionals.
The afternoon event will feature presentations and demonstrations of products/materials from companies developing plant-based renewable materials for applications in the sports and leisure industry. These include the use of renewable polymers from Merquinsa and Arkema Group, bamboo by RAW Bamboo Bikes and plant fibres by CelluComp Ltd.
During the event the attendees will have a unique opportunity to visit the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science at the University of Essex and learn about the facilities for testing sports gear and equipment. The event is designed to encourage networking between different stakeholders and provide the opportunity to discuss the potential for future developmental and collaborative work.
Who should participate?
Companies developing or manufacturing -
* materials for outdoor and active gear, sport clothing and equipment;
* bio monitoring, bio sensing, remote data transfer devices;
* sports drinks and performance stimulants based on plant ingredients;
* sports injuries management
Opportunity to exhibit or present at the event
There is an opportunity to exhibit or present during the event. The presentations to all delegates will be ‘spotlights’ (around 5 minutes) on a bio-based product or material.
Pilot study
We are partnering with the Centre for Sports and Exercise at the University of Essex for this event. The Centre has offered to carry out a short pilot study of bio-based products to test the product performance and athlete’s preference. The data could be presented at the event. Please contact Liliya Serazetdinova ASAP l.serazetdinova@uea.ac.uk about taking part in the pilot study.
If you wish to register for the event or are interested in taking part please contact Julia O’Rourke, event co-ordinator j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or call the InCrops Enterprise Hub on 01603 591765.
Friday, March 5, 2010
CIRC First Call for Proposals
The first CIRC call for proposals has gone live on the website; the shortcut to the appropriate page is www.bbsrc.ac.uk/circ.
The call will have two stages; the deadline for outline proposals is 28 April. We will be holding a workshop on 24 March at the Royal Society to promote the call and to give potential applicants the opportunity to discuss their research ideas with members of the Club. If you would like to attend the workshop you would be very welcome, and it would be much appreciated if you could pass this information on to any potential applicants you discuss this with. Please register at the following survey monkey site: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CIRCworkshop1.
Please contact Dr Dan Godfrey with any queries:
Tel. +44 (0)1793 414688
Mob. +44 (0) 7796260625
email dan.godfrey@bbsrc.ac.uk
Monday, January 18, 2010
23 April Symposium: Food Security - From Lab to Field. Deadline 19 April
23 April 2010, 10:00-16:00
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE
A networking meeting to stimulate translational and collaborative research
Download the:
Programme
Registration Form
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0LE
A networking meeting to stimulate translational and collaborative research
Download the:
Programme
Registration Form
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
March 17th: Biofuels East 2010 Conference
Date: Wednesday 17 March
Location: Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS
Registration: http://renewableseast.eventhq.co.uk/biofuelseast
Contribution to costs: £55 for industry and £45 for academia. A limited number of exhibition stands are available for a small cost.
Event Format:
Registration opens at 09.00 am; presentations start at 10:00am. There will be a break at 11:50am; with lunch for delegates at 13:30am. The presentations finish at 17:10 pm.
Download the Flier.
Location: Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS
Registration: http://renewableseast.eventhq.co.uk/biofuelseast
Contribution to costs: £55 for industry and £45 for academia. A limited number of exhibition stands are available for a small cost.
Event Format:
Registration opens at 09.00 am; presentations start at 10:00am. There will be a break at 11:50am; with lunch for delegates at 13:30am. The presentations finish at 17:10 pm.
Download the Flier.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
CPPS Seminar 25th February
Graham Moore
John Innes Centre
Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat
25 February @ 4pm
Large Lecture Theatre
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Download the poster.
John Innes Centre
Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat
25 February @ 4pm
Large Lecture Theatre
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Download the poster.
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