Welcoming Dr Andy Bailey
23rd November 2022
We are delighted to announce that Dr Andy Bailey is joining the CONNECTED Directorship. Andy manages the active plant pathology lab at the University of Bristol and will bring a great deal of knowledge and expertise to our network.
Spotlight on… CABI Academy
22nd November 2022
If part of your role is teaching or training, whether in an agricultural education institution or in your workplace, it might be worth looking at the CABI Academy online courses.
Banging the drum for plant health… at COP27
10th November 2022
CONNECTED recently had the opportunity to contribute to a key paper which will be launched at COP27 in Egypt this month.
A Report on the JR Biotek Foundation Alumni Symposium
4th November 2022
A Report on the JR Biotek Foundation Alumni Symposium by Anthony Mabele, following CONNECTED support to attend.
Proposals wanted: agriculture and climate change
27th October 2022
Are you working on research to help adapt agricultural production to climate change? If so this funding call from the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation), could be for you! The African Agriculture Climate Adaptation Research System funding call is being rolled out through the…
Leveraging more impact from plant health research
27th October 2022
Following CONNECTED’s recent award of £500K from UKRI International, we have now launched our plan to leverage more impact from the pump-prime funded research projects created by the initial grant. How will this work? We got in touch with all our pump-prime funded…
Christa joins the team
26th October 2022
Christa Muller is joining the CONNECTED Network Team for a year as our Executive Assistant. Below she tells you a little about herself and what brought her here…
Plant-based CRISPR/Cas systems – a review
19th October 2022
This new Open Access review ‘CRISPR/Cas-based tools for the targeted control of plant viruses’ by researchers from Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Pompeu Fabra University, Spain provides an excellent overview of this fast-moving research area.
Key crops for good nutrition
16th October 2022
Why is this such essential work? We sometimes forget how many people depend on just a few key crops, which are nutritionally important and widely cultivated, and how a reduced yield can affect the overall health of whole nations.
My summer at CONNECTED
29th September 2022
From working at CONNECTED I have realised that I want to follow a career path less focused on laboratory work and more focused on communicating research and policy in relation to plant diseases, the environment or climate change.