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UV4Plants conference website is now live.
UV4Plants conference website is now live.
119 days until the Network Conference! Registration is now open. Please find local information, deadlines and details in the attached second circular. Abstract submission is open. Please send abstracts for oral presentations or posters using the attached template. PhD students and early stage researchers are invited to send applications for the Training School following the Network Meeting. UV4Plants conference – 2nd circular UV4Plants conference – 2nd circular printer-friendly version Abstract template – UV4Plants conference UV4Plants Membership Form 2016.
You are cordially invited to participate the 1st Network Conference of The International Association for Plant UV-Research (UV4Plants), to be held in Pécs (Hungary), on the 30th – 31st of May 2016. The conference hopes to bring together researchers from universities, research institutes and companies with the aim of promoting and fostering a culture of research-excellence and good practice in plant UV research. Oral communications and poster presentations are equally welcome. Please let your colleagues know about the conference, especially early stage researchers. Please find enclosed the first circular which will be followed by more details soon. We look forward to meeting you at Pécs, at the network conference: The PDF of the first circular related to the conference is available as a PDF file for download. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Abstract template – UV4Plants conference
A photobiology school that will be organized by ESP can be of interest to UV4Plants members. 4th ESP PHOTOBIOLOGY SCHOOL 20-25 June, 2016 Casa della Gioventù Universitaria of the University of Padova, Italy Organizing Committee: Kristian Berg (NO, Chair), Rex M. Tyrrell (UK, ESP President), Lesley E. Rhodes (UK, ESP ETC Chair), Giorgia Miolo (IT, Local Organizer), Francesco Ghetti (IT, ESP Treasurer), Santi Nonell (ES, ESP President-Elect)
Dear UV4Plants members, It has been a long time since I last wrote to you. My apologies for this long period of silence. Yet, despite the silence, lots of things have happened behind the screens, and the association for plant UV Research, UV4Plants, is now firmly established. Administrative hurdles were more cumbersome than anticipated. I never thought that opening a bank account for an association, without attracting tax liabilities, would be so difficult. However, now that “administrative aspects” are finalised, the focus is shifting to scientific activities (Thanks to Matthew Robson and Gyula Czégény). In this sense I want to emphasise that the association very much welcomes ideas from members for future activities. The association strongly encourages members to take advantage of UV4Plants when initiating activities such as lab-exchanges, training schools, and Europe (or world?)-wide joint experiments, similar to the wine-leaf, Arabidopsis and Lolium experiments, which were such highlights of COST Action UV4Growth. Ultimately, the association will be what the members make of it! Please feel free to use the UV4Plants linkedin group (https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=6961083) to share and explore ideas. Also, members of the management committee (see UV4Plants website) will be very happy to hear from you! Here a flavour of…