August 2018 - APPN - lists.vbcf.ac.at

Plant Phenotyping Forum Invitation - 13 September, 1-5pm, Vienna BioCenter Campus

by Jez,Jakub

Dear all, It is our pleasure to invite you to the Plant Phenotyping Forum discussing the role of Austria and Eastern Europe in plant phenotyping for sustainable agriculture. The Forum will address the plant phenotyping landscape and role of Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia within the context of European plant phenotyping initiatives such as EMPHASIS and EPPN2020 with the goal to advance basic plant research, plant breeding and foster sustainable agriculture. The meeting will take place on September 13, 2018 , 1-5pm at the Vienna BioCenter Campus, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, IMP Lecture Hall. (Free) registration: https://www.appn.at/plant-phenotyping-forum/ Confirmed participants and speakers (in alphabetical order): Marian Brestic, Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, vice-rector for research and science Hermann Bürstmayr, Head, Division of Plant Breeding and Head, Institute for Biotechnology in Plant Production (BOKU) Pavel Hauptvogel, Director, Research Institute of Plant Production (NPPC) Ivan Ingelbrecht, Head, Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory, (IAEA) Jakub Jez, Head, VBCF Plant Sciences Facility & coordinator Austrian Plant Phenotyping Network (APPN) Gabriela Pastori, Chair, ESFRI Strategy Working Group on Health and Food Uli Schurr, Head, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, FZ Jülich & Coordinator ESFRI EMPHASIS project Lukas Spichal, Palacky University Olomouc, coordinator of the Czech Plant Phenotyping Network (CZPPN) Andreas Walter, Operating Director BioImaging Austria (CMI) A panel discussion, moderated by Uli Schurr, will follow the presentations. For those interested, we will tour the VBCF Plant Sciences Facility incl. the HT phenotyping platform. The full program is attached to this mail. Please feel free to share & spread the word! Looking very much forward to meeting you, Jakub Jez and Roland Pieruschka [https://www.appn.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo-full.png] https://www.appn.at/ Welcome [www.appn.at]<https://www.appn.at/> www.appn.at Welcome to the Austrian Plant Phenotyping Network (APPN) - "Enhancing the Austrian Plant Phenotyping Community!" Summary: Within this Plant Phenotyping Forum, we will discuss the role of Austria and Eastern Europe in agricultural production, as regions with huge potential and long-term traditions in the agricultural sector. Specifically, breeding and the consideration of environmental effects for continental climatic environments may require new breeding efforts in this region, including new strategies to develop new germplasm in pre-breeding programs and the application of modern breeding technologies, specifically to improve stress resistance to close the yield gap in times of a changing climate. In this context, the need to characterize the phenotype is essential to understand fundamental processes, which determine the structure and function of plants in particular. While significant progress has been made in molecular methods in recent years and the genomes of several plants have been sequenced this knowledge is not sufficient to simulate the phenotype of a plant without knowing the history and the dynamic interaction of the plant with its environment. Plant phenotyping - quantitative analysis of structure and function of plants - has become the major bottleneck and, quantitative information on genotype-environment relations is the key to address future challenges. Increasing the plant biomass production quantitatively and qualitatively can provide major contributions to grand challenges like food security on a global level, at the same time reducing a major driver for migration movements. Beyond fostering scientific progress, plant phenotyping requires a community effort. In this context EPPN2020, a EU funded I3 project provides access to key plant phenotyping facilities in Europe while EMPHASIS, a ESFRI listed project aims at the development of a long term sustainable pan European plant phenotyping infrastructure that addresses the needs of the diverse users from academia and industry including the operation and development of a pan-European e-infrastructure to effectively collect, process and provide data for the community.

Aug. 10, 2018

EMPHASIS Newsletter: Latest News August 2018

by Jez,Jakub

Aug. 9, 2018

FW: EMPHASIS Field Phenomics workshop: 6th of September 2018, Belgium

by Jez,Jakub

Dear All, We would like to invite you to the EMPHASIS Field Phenomics workshop, on the 6thof September 2018, as a satellite meeting of the Biometrics Eucarpia Conference in Ghent, 3-5 September 2018. The Field Phenomics workshop is focused on discussing the future of field phenotyping and breeding research, in a (pan-)European context. The workshop will address the demand and requirements of the field trail researchers and breeders from academia and industry and the role of the ESFRI infrastructure project EMPHASIS (https://emphasis.plant-phenotyping.eu/) to support field phenomics in Europe in the future. This workshop will include a field site visit at Flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food (ILVO), close to Ghent, a keynote presentation of Dr. Onno Muller, head of field phenotyping FZJ, and important discussions on how EMPHASIS may support you in your field phenomics research and in an European context. Please find a detailed program of the day below. This workshop is free and sponsored by EMPHASIS and ILVO. If you are interested in to join this workshop, please register here: https://emphasis.plant-phenotyping.eu/EMPHASIS_field_phenomics_workshop A bus would pick you up in the Ghent city center at 8:45AM, the pickup place will be announced after registration. Program EMPHASIS - Field Phenomics Workshop Thursday 6th of September 2018 9:00 Bus to ILVO, Melle (15min drive from Ghent) 9:30 Field Visit at ILVO 10:00 11:00 Coffee break 11:15 Introduction - EMPHASIS-Prep Key-note: Onno Muller, head of field phenotyping FJZ 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Break-out session on the future of Field phenomics in (pan-)Europe. 14:00 Coffee break 14:15 Break-out session on the future of Field phenomics in (pan-)Europe. 15:15 Coffee break 15:30 Wrap up 16:00 Bus back to Gent On behalf of EMPHASIS-Prep, Merlijn Morisse - Project Manager EMPHASIS-Prep Systems Biology of Yield VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology Ghent University Technologiepark 927 - 9052 Ghent - Belgium Tel. +32(0)9 331 35 36 www.psb.ugent.be<http://www.psb.ugent.be/> [Das Bild wurde vom Absender entfernt.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Aug. 9, 2018