Get started with Vector and Virus Diagnostics – join our webinar!
19th May 2023
In these short webinars, we will introduce you to the online Vector and Virus Diagnostics resources and the Train-the-Trainer materials
5 years on… what has CONNECTED achieved?
18th May 2023
A lot has happened since our Uganda launch conference, and we thought we would take a moment to look back on the last five years and what the network has achieved in that time.
Launching… Vector and Virus Diagnostics online resources!
27th April 2023
NEW – online resources for all CONNECTED members! If you want to improve your expertise on all aspects of vector and virus diagnostics, login and take yourself through our self-led course. A disease is devastating your field of crops, but how do you…
Catch up – Biopesticides Webinars
5th April 2023
CONNECTED Members – you can now catch up with our three amazing webinars on biopesticides, delivered by Dr Roma Gwynn, a biopesticide specialist working in technology for 30 years.
Food security, climate change… & potatoes
31st March 2023
The CONNECTED team joined the Bristol Collegiate Research Society (BCRS) Symposium last week to discuss ‘Sustainable Food Systems in the Face of Global Human-Made Catastrophes’, the catastrophes ranging from climate change to pandemics.
‘Colouration, distortion, death’ – we must be talking plant virus symptoms!
30th March 2023
We were delighted to welcome around 50 attendees from at least seven countries to our 10th CONNECTED webinar, with two great talks from Dr Adrian Fox and Dr Ian Adams of Fera Science Ltd.
Plant virus impacts in a changing climate
22nd March 2023
Last month we ran a stakeholder consultation workshop for mapping weather and climate services and digital information and tools for crop pest and disease management in Kenya
Ask your network
22nd March 2023
We are launching a new online feature via our website and enewsletter to make it easier for members to ask questions of the wider CONNECTED Network.
Training Trainers: Building confidence
22nd March 2023
In March we ran the second half of our training programme in Kenya, bringing together expertise from Biosciences for Africa (B4A) Hub and UK experts to equip participants to pass on Vector and Virus Diagnostics skills within their own institutions.
Training representatives of agricultural institutes in 11 African countries
10th March 2023
Press Release: As part of a joint programme co-delivered by Biosciences for Africa at the B4A-ILRI Hub, the University of Bristol’s CONNECTED Network has trained 21 plant scientists from 11 countries in ‘Vector and Virus Diagnostics’