Upcoming events

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.

Join the workshop is you want to understand the concepts like sleep rhythm, sleep pressure, sleep quantity and quality, etc. Guest speech by Ingi Alofs, Team leader, Coordinator Sport, Coordinator Fit & Vital, Sports Instructor & Fitness trainer, WUR

On Tuesday May 7th, the next B-Wise meeting of 2024 will take place at 12:30h, in room C0221 in the Forum building. Lunch will be available from 12:00h onwards

Life Sciences with Industry is a workshop that focuses on devising innovative solutions for scientifically challenging, commercial business cases.

On Friday 17 May, the DeepNL programme will organise its annual stakeholder meeting at Mariënhof in Amersfoort. This meeting creates a platform for knowledge exchange and discussion on the dynamics of the Dutch subsurface under the influence of human activities and surface effects. Researchers share their progress and results and stakeholders talk about developments and research needs. A great opportunity for both groups to discuss possible collaborations and applications.

Onder de vlag van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda startte in 2021 een breed programma van drie living labs en een overkoepelend project. Tijdens het symposium in Hotel Zuiderduin (Egmond aan Zee) worden tussentijdse resultaten gepresenteerd van het onderzoeksprogramma, delen twee externe key-note sprekers inspirerende ervaringen en is er in de workshop sessies tijd om te reflecteren en input te geven. Working language of the symposium is Dutch.

It is often unclear what social scientists do in transdisciplinary research in sustainability transitions. We often hear that “we need to involve social scientists” because the grant scheme demands it. But what does this mean in practice? How do social scientists participate in knowledge integration and what knowledge to they bring back to their ‘own’ fields? We will discuss these and other questions with a number of WUR researchers from the natural and social sciences who are experienced in transdisciplinary research and with the audience.

The May 2024 WEES (Wageningen Ecology & Evolution Seminars) event will take place on Friday 24th of May. The seminar lecture will take place from 13:00-14:00 in Orion, B4044 & B4045. This will be followed by a gathering at the Spot. The associated Workshop will take place from on the morning of Friday, May 24th, 10:00 -11:30 in Orion B4042.

BCF Career Event is the largest career event for the Life Sciences. It is the meeting place for everyone who is or wants to be active in Bio/Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food or Pharma. BCF Career Event offers you the opportunity to get into direct contact with a broad range of employers in the sector, but also with other organisations that can help you further in your career.

The Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem hosts the annual Biology of Vector-borne Diseases six-day course. This course provides accessible, condensed training and "knowledge networking" for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and professionals to ensure competency in basic biology,

The course is a combination of lectures and computer practical. It is a refresher course for PhD candidates, more likely advanced course based on statistical approaches/question within the plant science research field. Some time is reserved to discuss statistical problems of the participants.

The 5th Plant Microbiome Symposium will continue the tradition of (now) annual meetings of experts on the plant microbiome from all over the world. With these meetings we stimulate the exchange of information and ideas among researchers from around the world and working on a wide spectrum of disciplines and perspectives around the common theme of the plant microbiome. A selection of invited speakers will go beyond a standard conference talk, and will present their most exciting/unpublished results and expand their talk into the broader context of the field. They were invited to present stimulating or even provocative ideas, all of which should provoke lively discussions and the development of new ideas and research directions.

The conference “Life is plastic: How phenotypic plasticity makes us rethink central problems in biology” will be a unique forum to identify areas where most progress can be made by embracing the roles of the environment in producing phenotypes, and the consequences for individuals, populations and communities. The conference will gather scientists working with a diversity of approaches and model organisms.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to Utrecht, to the third “Young Researchers Symposium on Plant Photobiology” (YRSPP). YRSPP2024 will be a gathering for early career researchers (ECRs) in the field of plant photobiology. It comes at a crucial juncture in the advancement of our understanding of plant biology. As the world grapples with critical issues such as climate change and food security,

We're thrilled to announce that registration is open for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, taking place from July 14th to 18th, 2024, in Kigali, Rwanda. Under the theme "Achieving Inclusive Science for Effective Conservation, Adaptation, and Resilience in the Tropics," ATBC 2024 will highlight innovative research, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and address pressing challenges in tropical biology and conservation. We welcome senior & early career researchers and practitioners, students, indigenous and local knowledge holders, academics, policymakers, and leaders from various sectors, including non-profit, government, and business, to join us in commemorating 60 years of commitment to the Tropics. Our annual meeting in Kigali will feature diverse activities, including plenary sessions, panels, workshops, oral presentations, poster sessions, cultural programs, and more. Don't miss out on this invaluable opportunity for networking, learning, and collaboration on both local and global scale

In this summer school, an attractive programme is provided in which experts in the field will highlight different aspects of environmental signaling in plants. Additional speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts. Moreover, there will be ample opportunity for discussions during lunch and the poster viewing sessions. The meeting is especially attractive for PhD students, but the programme will definitely also be of interest to post-docs and senior scientists.

This course is about one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. What are the latest insights of the science of economics into its causes and potential solutions? How large are the costs of climate change? Should we tax carbon, cap-and-trade emission rights, or subsidize solar and wind power? Why is it so difficult to stick to environmental agreements such as ‘Paris’, despite the evident benefits to all? How can we prevent our industry from moving abroad if we take a leading role and ‘go it alone’ in taking environmental action? What is the role of economic growth and development? Should we stop it to avert a climate catastrophe and biodiversity loss, or can we pin our hopes on green growth?

We are very excited to announce the first edition of the Grounding carbon farming course which will take place from 14-20 September on site on a dairy farm in France. This is an all-included, immersive course where fundamental issues around carbon sequestration in agricultural lands are treated from different perspectives, including that of farmers. Highly relevant to anyone working from close or far with soil carbon and land-based climate change mitigation, from biological, environmental, social, or economic perspectives!

In collaboration with Wageningen University & Research the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success is coordinating a hybrid (in-person and online) symposium on October 30 and 31 in Wageningen, Netherlands. The symposium will focus on a range of topics related to the study of Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) interactions and their importance for crop improvement. The symposium will be conducted to stimulate new approaches, building on a foundation of sharing understanding and insights from case studies, leading to discussion of ideas that will advance experimental, modelling and prediction methods to enhance crop improvement strategies.