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…
New publication: A Mobile-Based Deep Learning Model for Cassava Disease Diagnosis
1st April 2019
Network members might be interested to read a new publication relating to a field test of a cassava disease diagnostic tool under field conditions. You can use this link to read ‘A Mobile-Based Deep Learning Model for Cassava Disease Diagnosis’
Dr Glato Kodjo
11th March 2019
We are sure that all members of plant science and entomology communities will share the deep sadness with which we learned that one of our network members, Dr Glato Kodjo, a professor-researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lome, Togo,…
V4: The CONNECTED Development Programme for Early Career Researchers
7th January 2019
Virus Vector Vice Versa Applications opened to network members to attend Virus Vector Vice Versa (V4): a fully-funded ten-day residential course at the University of Bristol, UK (10 – 21 June 2019). The purpose of V4: The CONNECTED Development Programme for Early Career…
GARNet newsletter features CONNECTED
20th December 2018
GARNish, the newsletter of the GARNet Community, features the CONNECTED network in the latest edition of its newsletter, which you can read here. GARNet supports UK scientists to develop and undertake excellent research in plant science. It is a BBSRC sponsored network that…
End of year reflections, and a look ahead to 2019
17th December 2018
The CONNECTED network team is determined 2019 will be a year in which the network and its members continue to to flourish, with a range of exciting opportunities to look forward to, some of which are shown below. And as we approach the…