30 researchers, 14 countries: major training event to help tackle African food crop challenges
16th May 2019
Dozens of early career researchers from Sub-Saharan African countries will attend a ground-breaking two-week training course at the University of Bristol next month. It’s organised by the Bristol-based CONNECTED research network, which works to find ways of tackling plant diseases that devastate African…
Ento ’19: CONNECTED workshop confirmed
13th May 2019
CONNECTED is delighted to confirm that the network will running a workshop at ‘Ento ‘19’, the International Symposium & Annual National Science Meeting of The Royal Entomological Society. The focus of this year’s three-day event (20-22 August), which takes place at London School…
Brand new film: our virus and vector diagnostic course
9th May 2019
The CONNECTED network is delighted to unveil a brand new film, made about the training course organised by CONNECTED in association with BecA-ILRI Hub, in Kenya in March 2019. Nairobi-based film makers Re-tuning Cinema in Africa made the seven-minute movie, which features interviews…
International Society for Plant Pathology features CONNECTED
9th May 2019
The latest edition of the newsletter of the International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP) newsletter features a full-page article about the CONNECTED network. The focus is the network’s fully-funded virus and vector diagnostics training course, which took place in association with BecA-ILRI Hub…
Sharing news about our network at conferences
9th May 2019
The forthcoming 17th triennial meeting of the Virology Section of the European Association of Potato Research (EAPR) and 10th PVY-Wide network meeting will take place from 18 – 21 June in Estonia. Dr Christophe Lacomme, a member of the CONNECTED Management Board and…
Natural Resources Institute supporting CONNECTED training opportunities
24th April 2019
The CONNECTED network is hugely grateful to staff from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, who are providing important help to our project’s offering of unique research opportunities to African students. You can read an article on the NRI website, outlining…
PlantVillage: cassava whitefly
5th April 2019
Many network members will be interested to learn about a new webpage, focusing on cassava whitefly, that has been published on the PlantVillage website. PlantVillage editors are currently looking for curator/s for this page, and it might be that enthusiastic network member/s would…
Huge success of virus and vector diagnostic training could lead to similar future opportunities
4th April 2019
Members of the CONNECTED management board are actively looking to arrange further virus and vector diagnostic training for its early career researcher members, following the resounding success of the course it ran in Kenya in March 2019. An innovative partnership between CONNECTED and…
Member blog & video: Training in bioinformatics sponsored by CONNECTED
3rd April 2019
Edith Avedi, one of our network members, has written this blog specially for the CONNECTED website. Edith successfully applied for CONNECTED funding to attend a bioinformatics course which began in January 2019 at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Training in bioinformatics at…
Member blog & video: Reflections on CONNECTED-funded attendance at bioinformatics course
1st April 2019
This blog has been specially written for the CONNECTED website by Adedapo O. Adediji, one of our network members who successfully applied for CONNECTED funding to attend a bioinformatics course which began in January 2019 at the The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences…