The James Hutton InstituteThis page is no longer updated. The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute joined forces with SCRI joined forces on 1 April 2011 to create The James Hutton Institute.
The final deadline for STSM applications has now passedIf you had been hoping to apply for STSM funding please contact John Jones ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). STSMs from COST 872Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are short visits to a lab in another country for the purposes of training or collaborative research. Funds are available from COST 872 to support such visits. Applications for funds are evaluated by the STSM Committee, which is composed of John Jones (SCRI), Lieve Gheysen (University of Gent), Geert Smant (Wageningen University), Pierre Abad (INRA), Florian Grundler (University of Bonn), Hinanit Koltai (Volcani Center) and Thomae Kakouli-Duarte (IT Carlow). STSM ReportsThe table below lists STSMs approved for funding through COST 872. Reports from people who have been on STSMs are made available here as they are produced.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The current list of countries that are signatories to COST 872 can be found here .
Any researcher working in this field in a country that is a signatory to the Action can participate in the activities of COST 872.
If you would like to participate in this Action but your country is not a signatory you should contact the COST National Coordinator for your country. A list of COST national coordinators can be found here
The main objective of this Working Group will be to co-ordinate the development and application of tools for functional analysis of nematode genes. Development of RNA interference and microarrays for plant parasitic nematodes will be priorities for this work area. For more information see the MoU
WG Coordinator:
Dr Geert Smant
Wageningen University,
Binnenhaven 5,
6709 PD Wageningen,
The Netherlands
+31 317485254
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The main objective of this Working Group will be to exploit the potential added value offered by use of comparative genomics as genomic information for nematodes accumulates. This WG will coordinate efforts in genome annotation in order to ensure that genome sequences are accessible to the community that aims to use them and will encourage comparative genomics of different plant parasitic nematodes as well as comparisons of plant parasitic nematodes with other plant pathogens and other (animal parasitic and free-living) nematodes. Work using established model systems such as C. elegans and Arabidopsis thaliana will also fall into this WG.
For more information see the MoU
WG Coordinator:
Pierre Abad
National Institute for Agricultural Research,
Plant-Microbe Interactions and Plant Health,
Sophia Antipolis,
France
+33 4 92 38 64 02
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The main objectives of this Working Group will be analysis of the host response to nematode infection using genomics tools and the development of novel screens for germplasm carrying resistance loci using nematode avirulence effectors. This work area will exploit microarrays for studies of plant-nematode interactions in the susceptible and resistant interaction and will coordinate efforts to identify nematode proteins that are recognised by resistant plants (avirulence effectors).
For more information see the MoU
WG Coordinator:
Florian Grundler
University of Bonn
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The minutes of the first MC Meeting, Dec 4th 2006, Brussels can be found here.
The minutes of the second MC Meeting held on May 10th 2007 at La Colle-sur-Loup (France) can be found here.
The minutes of the third MC meeting held on May 27th 2008 at Postojna (Slovenia) can be found here .
The minutes of the fourth MC meeting held on May 26th in Toledo can be found here .
The minutes of the fifth MC meeting held on May 25th in Lisbon can be found here .
The draft minutes of the final MC meeting held on May 25th in Ghent can be found here .
The meeting report for the COST 872 final meeting held in association with the ISCP meeting in Ghent, May 2011, can be found here .
The meeting report for the COST event held in association with the ESN meeting in Vienna can be found here .
The 2010 meeting of COST872 was held in Lisbon.� The full proceedings for this workshop are available here .
A training school on RNAi was held in Belfast in April 2010.� Further details are available at the "Past Meetings" page.
The 2009 meeting of COST 872 was held in Toledo.� Full proceedings of this workshop are available here .
The 2008 meeting of COST 872 was held in Slovenia.� The full proceedings of this workshop, including the programme and abstracts can be found here.
The 2007 meeting of COST 872 was held in La Colle-sur-Loup in France.� The proceedings of this workshop, including the scientific programme and abstracts, are available here.
A training workshop on genome annotation software for the root-knotnematode genome was held in Sophia-Antipolis in November 2008.� The report of this meeting can be found here.� The full training manual issued to participants can be found in the "Past Meetings" section to the left.
A workshop on microarray analysis in plant nematode interactions was held in Vienna in February 2008.� The programme and abstracts of this meeting can be found here .� More details in the "Past Meetings" section.
A book entitled "Genomics and Molecular Genetics of plant-nematode interactions", edited by John Jones, Godelieve Gheysen and Carmen Fenoll, has been produced by partners in COST 872.� This book has been published by Springer.� Details of this book can be found here .
The MoU for this action can be found here
The Rules and Procedures for the MC of this Action are described here
During the application process for this�project the Action chair (J.Jones) was required to make a presentation to the Food and Agriculture Domain Committee outlining the aims of the Action.� A pdf of this presentation can be found here (big file....)
The 2009 annual report for COST 872 can be found here .
The 2008 annual report for COST 827 can be found here .
The 2007 annual report�for COST 872 can be found here.
The 2006 annual report for COST 872 can be found here.� Note that this is a very brief report that only covers the 3 week period�that the Action was active in 2006.
Note that STSM reports are accessed through the �STSM� button to the left of this panel.
COST 872 held its final meeting in conjunction with the International Symposium on Crop Protection at Ghent University from 24th to 25th May. This allowed dissemination of the activities of COST 872 to a wide audience of plant protection specialists.
The programme for this event can be found here .
COST 872 ran a dissemination event linked to the 2010 ESN meeting in Vienna. The purpose of this event was to provide ESRs associated with COST 827 to make presentations about their work to an international audience. COST 872 also provided funds for three invited experts to highlight progress made in this area.
The programme for this event can be found here .
The meeting report for COST Office can be found here .
The programme for the meeting is available as a pdf file from here .
The abstract booklet is available here .
A short report of the meeting for COST Office is available here .
In addition to the usual scientific programme, delegates had the opportunity to attend a half day workshop on Science Communication which will be run by one of the world leaders in this field, Prof Frank Burnet. Further information about Frank's work can be found here: www.frankburnet.com
A training school on RNAi in plant parasitic nematodes was held in Belfast from April 12th - April 15th 2010. This training school provided hands on experience of the techniques required to design and perform RNAi experiments, including analysis of transcript reduction and phenotyping. A series of invited speakers also gave presentations. The programme can be found here .
A short report of the meeting for COST Office can be found here .
A combined inter-WG workshop and MC meeting (the main COST 872 event for 2009) was held in Toledo (Spain) from 25th to 28th May 2009. The meeting was organised by Lee Robertson and Carmen Fenoll.
A short report of the meeting (for COST Office) can be found here .
The programme of talks can be found here .
The abstract booklet can be found here .
A training workshop on annotation of the Meloidogyne incognita genome sequence was held in Antibes from 19-21 November 2008 with the support of COST 872.
A short report of the meeting can be found here.
The training manual provided to delegates can be found here .
A combined inter-WG workshop and MC meeting (the main meeting for COST 872 in 2008) was held in Postojna, Slovenia from 26th-29th May 2008. The meeting was organised by Sasa Sirca and Barbara Geric Stare.
A short report of the meeting provided to COST Office can be found here.
The full programme for the meeting can be found here.
A book of abstracts can be found here.
Delegates at the meeting:
A pdf file (2.5 Mb)with a variety of images from the meeting can be found here . If you have other images (and captions....) that can be added to this collection please drop John Jones an email.
A workshop on the data emerging from microarray studies of plant-nematode interactions was held at BOKU in Vienna from 7th-8th February 2008. The workshop was organised by Florian Grundler and Holger Bohlmann. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers working on (or planning to work on) transcriptome analysis of the interaction between plant roots and nematodes in the hope of identifying areas of collaboration.
A report of this meeting, including recommendations for future collaboration, can be found here.
The abstracts/position papers submitted by delegates can be found here.
Pictures from the meeting:
The first annual meeting (inter-Workgroup Workshop) of COST872 was held at VVF La Bergerie in La Colle-sur-Loup (France) from 9th-11th May 2007. The meeting was organised by Marie-Noelle Rosso (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). A total of 127 people representing 17 countries attended the meeting, with 76 of these delegates receiving support from COST872 to attend. The scientific programme mirrored the WG structure of COST 872 and included26 talks and32 poster presentations. The full scientific programme can be found here.
A brief overview of the meeting provided to COST Office can be found here.
Pictures from the meeting:
The first MC meeting of COST 872 took place in Brussels on Dec 4th 2006. The minutes of this meeting can be found here .
This meeting was held at COST Office in Brussels
