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Watch our new maize film!
16th June 2019
Following a glittering premiere showing to delegates attending the CONNECTED V4 training programme in Bristol on 13 June, you can now watch our brand new film. The five-minute movie focuses on two Kenya-based projects involving international collaborations which are seeking ways to battle…
Read moreWelcoming Dr. Harriet Mills to the network team
7th June 2019
The CONNECTED Network Team is delighted to welcome Dr. Harriet Mills, Network Manager (secondment, maternity cover). Harriet is a medical statistician and infectious disease epidemiologist by training. A postdoc for seven years at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol, she is…
Read more30 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…
Read moreEnto ’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…
Read moreBrand 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…
Read moreVacancy: Executive Assistant (Maternity Cover)
9th May 2019
The CONNECTED network is recruiting an Executive Assistant (Maternity Cover) to provide administrative support to the network team. You will be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic team that work on a wide range of activities to support the grant objectives. Your job…
Read moreInternational 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…
Read moreSharing 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…
Read moreWatch our brand new film: ‘An introduction to virus and vector diagnostics’
5th May 2019
The CONNECTED Network is now on Facebook! And our page there is hosting the launch of a brand new seven-minute movie about ‘An introduction to virus and vector diagnostics’, a five-day course run by CONNECTED and BecA-ILRI Hub in Nairobi, Kenya, in March…
Read moreNatural 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…
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