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Lizzy award for Jordi Floriach-Clark
A Lizzy Award has been awarded to EPS PhD candidate Jordi Floriach-Clark. Jordi is developing technology in his startup ChemPanoptics for better early screening of substances that combat harmful fungi in agriculture and healthcare. The [...]

Pleun Langerwerf and Jason Gardiner: Blog on a midway meeting between supervisor and PhD candidate
A PhD often moves through recognizable phases. The beginning is full of possibility and, sometimes, uninformed optimism. By the halfway point, early optimism often gives way to a more sober view of the project. That [...]

NWO Veni Grant for Peter Karssemeijer (WUR)
Congratulations to Peter Karssemeijer (Biosystematics, WUR) on receiving the prestigious Veni grant. The Veni is a personal scientific grant aimed at researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. The grant instrument allows recipients to conduct [...]

NWO Large-scale Research Infrastructure grant for NPEC
This allocation by NWO will enable existing Large-scale Research Infrastructures (LSRI) to be modernised, strengthened or better interconnected to achieve (beyond) state-of-the-art standards. This will extend the operational lifetime of the research infrastructure and ensure [...]

Open Competition Domain Science -XS grants for 5 EPS members
Congratulations to P. Ding (Leiden University), S.W. van der Horst (Wageningen University & Research), A.H. Sheikh (Utrecht University), Dr M.A. Silva Artur (Wageningen University & Research) and K. Spaninks (Leiden University) for receiving the XS [...]
EPS events
EPS Career Day – Oct 2026
October 7
EPS PI meeting
October 28 @ 14:00 - 20:00
Seminars
Defenses
Desiccation Tolerance: A tale of convergence through divergence
October 5 @ 13:00 - 14:30
Delaying the Decay; Uncovering Botrytis cinerea Resistance in Rose and Strawberry
October 16 @ 10:30 - 12:00
Vacancies
Postdoctoral position in root biology, Andersen Lab, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Anja Mosselman2026-10-01T13:05:17+02:001 October, 2026|
Two Associate Professors: Novel concepts in plant pathogen interactions, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Anja Mosselman2026-09-24T09:55:46+02:0024 September, 2026|
Research Scientist – Plant Pathology, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom
Anja Mosselman2026-09-08T11:23:34+02:008 September, 2026|













