9th F&A NEXT Summit

We are pleased to share this upcoming event (22nd – 23rd May 2024), co-organized by Wageningen University & Research, dedicated to CATALYZING SUSTAINABLE FOOD & AGRI INNOVATION! Food & Agri tech startups and scale-ups will be presented to dedicated investors and innovative corporates, fostering networking opportunities. Also, the 10 most promising agrifood tech startups will have a special opportunity to present themselves …

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Summer School on Image Analysis for Plant Phenotyping

This Summer School, organized by Wageningen Academy, will provide a complete mixture of the underlying theory and practical hands-on training on image analysis techniques for automatic plant phenotyping. You will have the chance to work on actual plant image analysis issues! Date: 24th June 2024 until 28th June 2024 Venue: Wageningen Campus Target group: Researchers working on automatic phenotyping and technical …

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STARGATE | Workshop 5: Practical solutions for reducing waste/ valorisation strategies: functional phenotyping towards a circular economy

Through its partner UCP, Porto, Portugal, the STARGATE project is organizing the fifth Workshop on the topic of functional phenotyping towards a circular economy on January 30th, 2024. Target Group | 40 participants from STARGATE partner and non-partner entities. Aim | Address phenotyping technologies and phenomic infrastructures as a support to the development of a circular economy. Fees | The workshop …

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New STARGATE publication | December 2023

We are very pleased to share with you the paper entitled “Ripening dynamics revisited: an automated method to track the development of asynchronous berries on time-lapse images” developed under the STARGATE project scope. With the collaboration of INRAE, one of the STARGATE partners, the paper proposes a method to track the growth and coloration kinetics of individual berries on time-lapse images …

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Postdoc opportunity in Digital Phenotyping in Horticultural Crops, Geisenheim University, Germany

The Institute for Plant Breeding are currently looking for a postdoc in “digital phenotyping” to join the institute at Geisenheim University, Germany. Please, find in the following link the job posting information: https://www.hs-geisenheim.de/fileadmin/redaktion/HOCHSCHULE/Veroeffentlichungen/Stellenausschreibungen/Wissenschaftliche_Mitarbeiter/79-2023__LOEWE_Postdoc_Phenotyping_englisch.pdf The focus of this exciting position is the development, implementation and use of modern digital phenotyping tools, as well as approaches for automated processing of sensor data …

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STARGATE Training School 3: Analysing and modelling phenotypes for challenging environments (July 11th and 12th 2023)

The STARGATE Training School 3 entitled “Analysing and modelling phenotypes for challenging environments” was organised by it partner French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). This training, with face-to-face activities, had 22 registration among young scientists from CBQF, WR, INRAE and IPK and external institutions. INRAE managed it under Dr Llorenç Cabrera-Bosquet’s supervision.   This 2-days face-to-face …

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STARGATE Short-term Scientific Mission 6 in NPEC (WR) by Maryam Bagheri (UCP)

In the framework of the STARGATE Short-term Scientific Mission, number 6 (STSM 6) titled “Netherlands Plant Eco-Phenotyping Centre (new greenhouse, new climate rooms and field phenotyping equipment)”, the UCP PhD student Maryam Bagheri participated in an exciting two-months experiment in the NPEC facilities. In this drought pea experiment, Maryam uses the conveyor system in the NPEC greenhouse to evaluate contrasting …

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STARGATE WINTER School: Post Harvest training (December 14th and 15th 2022)

The STARGATE WINTER School entitled “Post Harvest training” was organised by partners Centro de Biotecnologia e Quimica Fina – Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Wageningen University & Research (WR). This training, with face-to-face activities and additional online lectures provided for self-study, had 13 registration among young scientists from CBQF and IPK and the Technical and Scientific community. UCP and WR managed …

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STARGATE Workshop 4: Multi-source and multi-scale phenomic data integration and organization in information systems

The STARGATE project, through its partner INRAE Montpellier, is organising the fourth Workshop in the topic of phenomic data integration and information systems on September 8th and 9th 2022. Target Group | 25 researchers from or connected to the STARGATE partner organisations. Aim | To provide theoretical key elements and practical solutions for dealing with multi-source and multi-scale data in …

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