Upcoming events

The theme and title of the symposium is ‘Optimising photosynthesis for societal needs’. During this meeting we will hear about the latest progress and ideas from Professor Don Ort, a distinguished photosynthetic biophysicist from the University of Illinois.

Every year, Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) organises a one-day event for PhD candidates consisting of a carousel of 4 sessions with 6 workshops per session. The 1.5 hour workshops deal with all sorts of elements important for PhDs and the PhD track. Workshops are either stand-alone workshops or teasers that give a taste of more elaborate courses and workshops organised by Wageningen Graduate Schools.

This year we celebrate the 200th birth year of Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), the founder of genetics. According to the historian of science Jan Sapp: “There is no greater legend in the history of science than that of the experiments of Gregor Mendel. Three moments in this legend are extraordinary: 1) how in the 1860s, Mendel single-mindedly discovered the laws governing the inheritance of individual characters; 2) how the scientific world failed to recognize the monumental importance of these findings during its life-time; 3) the remarkable “rediscovery” in 1900 of what later came to be called Mendelism”.

The Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund (INREF) and the Knowledge Base (KB) Programme on Food Security and Valuing Water, both part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), jointly organise an international science-policy event in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). During the event we will look at the results of past and current running INREF and KB projects (and potentially other interdisciplinary programmes) in search of recommendations for future inter- and transdisciplinary research, policy, education and implementation programmes.

The Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund (INREF) and the Knowledge Base (KB) Programme on Food Security and Valuing Water, both part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), jointly organise an international science-policy event in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). During the event we will look at the results of past and current running INREF and KB projects (and potentially other interdisciplinary programmes) in search of recommendations for future inter- and transdisciplinary research, policy, education and implementation programmes.

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th conference on the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms to be held in Prague from 19 to 23 June 2022. This will be the fourth conference of the series of triennial symposia on this topic, last organized in Helsinky in 2018. The conference is planned as an interdisciplinary platform that should offer as much interaction among various subjects within microbial ecology as possible. This includes questions addressing individual microbes, microbial communities as well as their interactions with the environment and other soil biota. We aim to link the current molecular “omics” methods such as metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics with approaches based on soil chemical and biochemical analyses, the exploration of soil fauna and plant ecology. The other important goal of the conference is a wide scope covering the ecology of all microbes: bacteria and fungi as well as archaea and protozoa.

New dates for Lignofuels 2022 have been announced – this live conference will be taking place in Helsinki, Finland on 21st & 22nd June 2022. This 11th annual conference will not only give the participants an insight on the current challenges and opportunities, but will also provide updates and future forecasts on the latest industry's technology trends. It will feature numerous interactive sessions, presentations and case studies from key industry players including UPM Biofuels, Neste, Total, Axens, Novozymes, Chempolis, Valmet to name a few, and provide excellent live networking opportunities with your senior level peers.

This summer, we want to celebrate our love of nature together with WUR students and staff. And what better place for this than our beautiful green campus?

The popular annual 5 days international summer school that helps early career professionals with a scientific background in Life Sciences to transition to industry and jumpstart their career. The course takes place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

With this yearly NLSEB meeting, we aim to bring together scientists from all disciplines working on evolutionary questions, and build a broad community of evolutionary biologists based in the Netherlands.

The 8th edition of the Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2022) will be organised on June 28-29 2022 at Congrescentrum De Werelt, in Lunteren, the Netherlands.The conference is planned to be a face-to-face meeting and will have a highly diverse programme.

The SPS Summer School 2022 is a one-week program for outstanding and enthusiastic master and PhD students, as well as post-docs working in plant biology on biological questions related to sugar transport, metabolism and/or signaling. It will provide them with an introduction on several aspects of the molecular and cell biology of sugar metabolism, transport and signaling in relation to global climate changes.

This is the first time that an ATBC annual meeting will be held in Colombia, a country known for its incredible diversity distributed across biomes, including the rain forests of Amazonia and Chocó. Like many countries in the tropics, Colombia has much to lose if measures are not taken to conserve its biodiversity. Please join this meeting to talk about science and brainstorm about possible solutions for the pressing challenges of the Anthropocene.

Registration is now open for the European Conference on Behavioural Biology, which will be held in Groningen this summer. After a long period of restricted interactions, the theme of the conference is “All of Life is social!”. We explore the many facets of social life, from proximate to ultimate mechanisms in a wide variety of species. You can submit your contributions (talks and posters) to one of the parallel symposia with themes ranging from social foraging to animal welfare and from cultural evolution to epidemiology - or to one of the open symposia.

The International Union of Microbiological Societies 2022 meeting aims to bring together medical and non-medical microbiologists from different disciplines around the theme “Microbiological adaptation in times of ecological disturbance and disruption”. During this three-day meeting delegates will attend keynote lectures by scientific leaders, bridging sessions, and workshops organized by the three IUMS divisions: Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology, Virology, and Mycology and Eukaryotic Microbiology

LaTeX is a document preparation system and markup language which can be used as an alternative to text processors like MS-WORD. This is a free introductory workshop especially aimed at those who have little or no experience working with LaTeX. There will be a theoretical and a hands-on practical part.

We will organize a hybrid event for the INTECOL 2022 Congress, which means that we will have an onsite event with live presentations, and at the same time a virtual event with access to live sessions via a streaming platform.

Following the phenomenal success of the previous six editions of the plant science and molecular biology conference, Magnus Group is delighted to present the “7th Edition of Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology" (GPMB 2022) to be hosted in a Hybrid format with both virtual and in-person versions at Paris, France. The global congress is a three-day event slated during September 01-03, 2022. The conference will be moving forward with its unique theme “Evaluating Plant Science Innovations for A Sustainable Green Future” and it will cover a wide range of critically important Plant Science and Molecular Biology.

The Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) is a two-day event organised by NERN and NecoV (Dutch - Flemish Ecological Society) and is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). There will be 2 plenary sessions, 20 parallel sessions, and 2 poster sessions. You are cordially invited to register!!

The 7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, brings together a multidisciplinary science community of plant biologists, ecologists, engineers, agronomists and computer scientists. In a rich and diverse networking environment we foster knowledge exchange, collaboration and innovation.

In the next few decades the world expects 2 billion more mouths to feed while our climate changes, so understanding how plant growth, development and crop yield respond to the environment has never been more important. This Congress will bring together over a thousand plant biologists from around the world who are making the latest discoveries on how genes, proteins, metabolism and physiology influence plant growth. Join the world’s best scientsts who will discuss the cutting-edge research being done to understand plant growth and development.