MAY 2021: FASCINATING EXPERIMENTS WITH PLANTS
Children’s book ‘Fascinating Experiments with Plants’ – 1st edition has SOLD OUT!
SEPTEMBER 2019: 13th Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society, Dobrna, Slovenia
Mojca Juteršek (NIB) presented the transcriptomics approaches applied in the SUSPHIRE project at the 13th Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society with International Participation.
SEPTEMBER 2019: Advances in Industrial Microbiology, Bielefeld, Germany
Špela Baebler (NIB) presented project goals and preliminary results at the 9th International CeBiTec Research Conference Bielefeld: Advances in Industrial Microbiology, 23rd September 2019, Bielefeld. At the same conference, Heribert Warzecha (TUDA) presented the potential of plants for producing bioactive molecules.
SUSPHIRE’s concepts and goals were also presented at the Round table “Enhancing the CEE collaboration and Know-how transfer in biotechnology and biosecurity” in Minsk,Belarus September 19th September 2019.
SEPTEMBER 2019: GCSB (GERMAN CONFERENCE ON SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY), Aachen, Germany
Janine Gondolf, TU Darmstadt was invited by GASB (German Association for Synthetic Biology), to attend the annual German Conference on Synthetic Biology (GCSB), Aachen, Germany. Besides participating in the discussions following the talks, Janine took the opportunity to meet different members of the German SynBio community.
JULY 2019: OPENPLANT FORUM, CAMBRIDGE, UK
Kalyani Kallam, Earlham Institute, spoke about SUSPHIRE at the 2019 OpenPlant Forum.
JULY 2019: DESIGNER BIOLOGY/ ALIFE (Artificial Life) 2019
Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute, introduced SUSPHIRE to the Designer Biology and ALife communities. Both meetings were held in Newcastle, UK 29th July – 2nd August 2019 and included a cross-over panel-session to discuss the social impacts of Synthetic Biology. Panel members: Nicola Patron (Earlham Institute), Alex Penn (University of Surrey), Erik Hom (University of Mississippi), Kate Adamala (University of Minnesota).
MAY 2019: FASCINATION OF PLANTS, SLOVENIA
Partners from the National Institute of Biology (Ljubljana, Slovenia), presented SUSPHIRE project at different events. At the Fascination of Plants day, 1000 primary school pupils learned about the importance of volatiles for communication in plants and insects. In the light of this event, the SUSPHIRE project was also featured in a radio show on the Slovene national radio station.
https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/pogled-v-znanost/174616993
Project SUSPHIRE was also presented to the general public during ”Znanstival”, a science festival in the centre of Ljubljana.
21 MAY 2019: EARLHAM INSTITUTE OPEN DAY
On May 21st the Earlham Institute held “Inside EI”, an open day for the public. Over 400 school students and members of the public came to learn about how genomics and synthetic biology is being used to understand biological organisms and their interactions with the environment. Visitors were able to interact with a scent-based experience to introduce biosynthetic pathways, synthetic biology and project SUSPHIRE.
13 MAY 2019: SYNBIO WORLD CAFÉ, GEORG-LICHTENBERG HAUS, DARMSTADT
Janine Gondolf from TU Darmstadt hosted a table at the SynBio World Café presented by GASB (German Association for Synthetic Biology).
Since Synthetic Biology holds the promise to be a driving force for the advancement of the bioeconomy, the organisers brought together stakeholders with backgrounds in academia, corporate industry, startups, or a combination of those fields as world café guests. Catering for different interests, the event focused on four broad topics:
– commodities & materials
– food & agriculture
– healthcare & biopharma
– energy Over three rounds, attendants were given the opportunity to participate in round-table discussions of multiple topics. Eachdiscussion was guided by the a table host; an expert in the respective field (or an important aspect of that field). Janine provided insights, pointed out limitations and opportunities, guided the discussion and summarised important points at the food & agriculture table.
11th April 2019: AWARD – Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Students’ Conference
Mojca Juteršek from NIB presented SUSPHIRE project in a 3-minute elevator pitch at the 11thJožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Students’ Conference (Planica, Slovenia, 15-16 April 2019). Her presentation entitled “Love is in the air” was awarded the first prize from the audience as well as from the expert committee.
4th April 2019: Merck
2-3rd April 2019: Year 1 Project Meeting
The SUSPHIRE team meet at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUDA), Germany.
11th February 2019: RRI in Norwich
Alfred and Janine from Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUDA) visit Norwich to discuss responsible research and innovation in the bioeconomy with the Earlham Institute project members.
29th January 2019: House of Commons, UK
Nicola (Earlham Institute) is invited to the Houses of Parliament to inform the Science and Technology Committee about the potential of new biotechnologies for improving the sustainability of agriculture.
14 November 2018: DATA MANAGEMENT
On November 14th 2018 NIB held an interactive webinar entitled “FAIR data management with pISA-tree” for SUSPHIRE partners. The webinar covered the project’s data management plan and provided a practical demonstration of pISA-tree, a system for generating a standardized project directory tree and associated metadata in accordance with the ISA-tab framework and FAIR principles.
5th November 2018: MILESTONE MET – Team effort for mealybug transcriptomes
The team at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), separated virgin and mated female insects. RNA was purified by the team at Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP) and sent to the team at Earlham Institute (EI) for library preparation and sequencing. 400 million reads have been generated and shared and, this week, team members from Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUDA), Germany and National Institute of Biology (NIB), Slovenia meet in Ljubljana to begin comparative analyses.
NIB organized a hands-on training on bioinformatics analysis of RNA-Seq data for three SUSPHIRE researchers, Iryna Gerasymenko and Elisabeth Bayer from TU Darmstadt, and Mojca Juteršek from NIB. The training covered determining differentially expressed genes in Planococcus citri Illumina dataset which was sequenced as part of SUSPHIRE WP3 activities.
Prof. dr. Heribert Warzecha from TU Darmstadt also presented the work of his research group in a public seminar at NIB entitled “Opportunities and challenges of plant biotechnology for the production of active substances”.
5th November 2018: Agritech East
Team members from Earlham Institute, Norwich, present SUSPHIRE to farmers, agronomists and scientists at Agritech East 2018.
June 13-14, 2018: ACHEMA
Project Coordinator, Diego Orzaez, presented SUSPHIRE at ACHEMA 2018 Frankfurt, Germany.
23rd May 2018: KICK-OFF Meeting
Members of the SUSPHIRE team met in Valencia to discuss the project and visit the insects…
25th October 2017 – FUNDED
The ERA CoBioTech Call Office has informed us that project SUSPHIRE has been funded. In the next few months, we’ll be adding new team members and putting in place legal agreements to begin this exciting new project. Look out for more updates on this page…
