Thursday 16th July 2009
3.00pm - 6.30pm
Hughes Hall College, Pavilion Room, Cambridge CB1 2EW
THIS IS A FREE EVENT & PLACES ARE LIMITED
To register, please contact Dr Beatrix Schlarb Ridley, InCrops Business Innovation Manager on b.schlarb-ridley@uea.ac.uk or telephone 01223 333 956 / 07778983612
FOR A FULL PROGRAMME AND FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS AND OTHER INCROPS EVENTS PLEASE VISIT www.incropsproject.co.uk.
Download the poster.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Biofuels East Launch Event
Fostering collaboration between academia and industry
Queens' College, Cambridge, 24 March 2009
An opportunity to examine the performance and sustainability of biofuels, learn about the advanced technologies being developed in the East of England and find out how to access funding for collaborative projects.
This event is aimed at academic and industrial researchers working on the development of biofuels as well as those whose activities are impacted by developments in this field. We have an amazing selection of experts such as Aaron Berry, Head of Carbon and Sustainability at the Renewable Fuels Agency, and Professor Chris Howe, Plant Biochemist at the University of Cambridge.
The following topics will be covered:
* The sustainability of biofuels and the rationale for advanced generation technologies
* Biodiesel, bio-alcohols, biomethane and jet fuels: developments and challenges faced by the industry
* Cutting edge research in land crops, algae feedstocks, lignocellulosic fuels and waste derived fuels
* Collaborative projects between academia and industry: challenges, case studies and ways forward
* Funding opportunities for collaborative projects between academia and industry
Download:
Information about Biofuels: Advanced Virtual Biofuels Hub for the East of England
Biofuels East Launch Event flier
Registration form
Queens' College, Cambridge, 24 March 2009
An opportunity to examine the performance and sustainability of biofuels, learn about the advanced technologies being developed in the East of England and find out how to access funding for collaborative projects.
This event is aimed at academic and industrial researchers working on the development of biofuels as well as those whose activities are impacted by developments in this field. We have an amazing selection of experts such as Aaron Berry, Head of Carbon and Sustainability at the Renewable Fuels Agency, and Professor Chris Howe, Plant Biochemist at the University of Cambridge.
The following topics will be covered:
* The sustainability of biofuels and the rationale for advanced generation technologies
* Biodiesel, bio-alcohols, biomethane and jet fuels: developments and challenges faced by the industry
* Cutting edge research in land crops, algae feedstocks, lignocellulosic fuels and waste derived fuels
* Collaborative projects between academia and industry: challenges, case studies and ways forward
* Funding opportunities for collaborative projects between academia and industry
Download:
Information about Biofuels: Advanced Virtual Biofuels Hub for the East of England
Biofuels East Launch Event flier
Registration form
Thursday, January 22, 2009
CPPS Seminar: 5 February 2009
The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates
Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen
Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00
Department of Plant Sciences Large Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
Abstract:
Using bio-fuels, such as bio-ethanol or bio-diesel in transportation, or biomass in power generation reduces CO2 emissions as the carbon is fixed by the plants from the atmosphere and saves the equivalent fossil fuel. The perennial rhizomatous C4 grass Miscanthus has one of the highest energy intensities per hectare of land in Europe. Here we model the future potential of Europe to produce Miscanthus with four different future land use and climate change scenarios and conclude that up to 17% of Europe’s current primary energy consumption could be provided by this bio-energy crop by the year 2080 but that inter-annual variation of crop yield can be more than 20%. We conclude that that the highest greenhouse gas mitigation from bio-energy can be achieved by growing a Miscanthus crop on existing fertile and degraded arable land and not on land with a currently undisturbed ecosystem.
Download the poster: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/pdfs/Hastings.pdf
Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen
Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00
Department of Plant Sciences Large Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
Abstract:
Using bio-fuels, such as bio-ethanol or bio-diesel in transportation, or biomass in power generation reduces CO2 emissions as the carbon is fixed by the plants from the atmosphere and saves the equivalent fossil fuel. The perennial rhizomatous C4 grass Miscanthus has one of the highest energy intensities per hectare of land in Europe. Here we model the future potential of Europe to produce Miscanthus with four different future land use and climate change scenarios and conclude that up to 17% of Europe’s current primary energy consumption could be provided by this bio-energy crop by the year 2080 but that inter-annual variation of crop yield can be more than 20%. We conclude that that the highest greenhouse gas mitigation from bio-energy can be achieved by growing a Miscanthus crop on existing fertile and degraded arable land and not on land with a currently undisturbed ecosystem.
Download the poster: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/pdfs/Hastings.pdf
Monday, December 1, 2008
Advances in SAT Legume Genomics for Improving Crop Productivity in Africa and Asia
10.30am, Friday, 12 December 2008, Council Room, NIAB
Speaker: Rajeev K. Varshney, Ph.D. Senior Scientist (Applied Genomics) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and Leader, Sub Programme 2: Genomics towards Gene Discovery, Generation Challenge Programme
Host: Tina Barsby.
If you wish to attend the seminar can you please email Mary McPhee mary.mcphee@niab.com by 8 DECEMBER 2008.
Speaker: Rajeev K. Varshney, Ph.D. Senior Scientist (Applied Genomics) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and Leader, Sub Programme 2: Genomics towards Gene Discovery, Generation Challenge Programme
Host: Tina Barsby.
If you wish to attend the seminar can you please email Mary McPhee mary.mcphee@niab.com by 8 DECEMBER 2008.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CPPS seminar
New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants
Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth
30 October 2008
Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth
30 October 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Change in land use: does this relate to CAP reform and what are the agro-ecology repercussions
A a one-day meeting of the BES, Agricultural Ecology SIG is to be held at NIAB, Cambridge on 18 July 2008. Download the programme as a word doc.
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/groups/agricultural/
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/groups/agricultural/
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Plant Cell Walls: New Insights and Applications through Functional Genomics
Friday, 13 June 2008, NIAB, Main Hall at 2.30pm
Professor Geoffrey Fincher, Professor of Plant Science, Waite Agricultural Research Institute & Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide
Contact: Mary McPhee, Director's Office, NIAB, Phone: +44 (0) 1223 342 495 if you wish to attend.
Professor Geoffrey Fincher, Professor of Plant Science, Waite Agricultural Research Institute & Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide
Contact: Mary McPhee, Director's Office, NIAB, Phone: +44 (0) 1223 342 495 if you wish to attend.
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