June News Update

Conference at Pécs We enjoyed a very successful first UV4Plants conference at Pécs, Hungary. Sixty four persons from 18 countries participated, with very many interesting talks, posters, and discussions. Photographs are available in a gallery page. The book of abstracts is available as a pdf file. General Assembly held at Pécs The minutes from the General Assembly are also available as a pdf file. The rules were amended by the General Assembly, and the updated version has replaced the one drafted in 2014. Some members from the previous Management Group plus new members were elected for a two-year term. The newly elected president and vice president are Prof. Gareth Jenkins and Prof. Éva Hideg. Training School at Pécs The two-days long training school was attended by nearly 30 young researchers. The training school was organized following the tradition of those earlier organized by the UV4growth COST action. Photographs are available in a gallery page. UV4Plants Bulletin Both whole issues, and the articles contained in them have now been assigned DOIs and are available through our repository. Anybody with a DOI for an article in our Bulletin can download its PDF as they have open access. The PDFs and DOIs are available at the UV4Plants Bulletin…

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UV4Plants News (2015-10-01)

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…

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