SSCR Potato Commitee Winter Meeting
Presentations on: Integrated Pest Management of Potato at the Hutton - Jennie Brierley
Plant Health Centre of Expertise - Ian Toth
SSCR Combinable and Energy Crops Winter Meeting
Improving the Sustainability of Arable Cropping: results from the first rotation at the Centre for Sustainable Cropping
Crop Protection Northern Britain 2018
The James Hutton Institute presented aspects of their IPM research, including:
PhD in Biodiversity of Parasitoid Networks and the Impact on Aphid Biocontrol
The James Hutton Institute is currently seeking applicants to undertake a PhD that will focus on aphid parasitoids and their hyper-parasitoids. The studentship is funded under the James Hutton Institute/University Joint PhD programme, in this case with the University of Greenwich. Please see the full advert on the FindAPhD website.
PhD positions in MSC-ITN project MiRA
The James Hutton Institute is a beneficiary partner on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project ‘MiRA: Microbe-induced Resistance to Agricultural pests’, which started on 1st December 2017 and is co-ordinated by the University of Copenhagen. The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and offers 15 PhD positions starting in April 2018 at different research institutions and companies in Europe.
XV Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS
The West Palaeartic Regional Section of the International Organisation for Biological and Integrated Control (IOBC), of which the James Hutton Institute is a corporate member, will organize a meeting in Lleida (Catalonia) in 2018. The theme of the workshop will be “Biocontrol products: From lab testing to product development”.
Please follow the link below for further details:
Agroecological Crop Protection training course
Drawing on the experience and teaching resources of ENDURE, a five-day training course on Agroecological Crop Protection (ACP) for advanced level students, researchers and agricultural advisers is to be staged early next year in Volterra, Italy. The closing date for applications is November 20, 2017.
Crop Production Northern Britain 2018
CPNB: Dundee: 27 - 28 February 2018.
The James Hutton Institute will be presenting aspects of their IPM research, including:
IPM Case Studies: Berry Crops
Prof. Nick Birch, one of the James Hutton Institute's key members of staff leading Integrated Pest and Disease Management Research, has contributed the chapter "IPM Case Studies: Berry crops" to the second edition of "Aphids as Crop Pests"; edited by Helmut F. Van Emden and Richard Harrington, to be published by CABI publishing on the 31st October 2017.
