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🌱PCP sponsors the first-ever Plant Chronobiology Conference⏲️ in Leuven, Belgium on June 13th and 14th 2025. Registration is now open!

Congratulations to Dr. Eva Beele for the successful defense of her PhD thesis! Eva presented her research on the role of urban green in mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect, and how the amount, shape and configuration of urban green impacts heat stress and sleep quality. A 🧵

Does being in a forest make you feel good? We are looking for participants to fill in a quick online survey on well-being linked to forest walks. You can find the survey here: survey.kuleuven.cloud/SVY_EN Sharing is appreciated!

Each month, we shine a spotlight on one of our colleagues in our FNL division🌳and share their interesting research! 🔍Today, we present the topic of Saskia Droege: Environmental outcomes of food and forest management certification. 🍫🍃

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Please share: We're hiring up to FIVE Postdocs or PhD students for a number of #plantsci #proteomics #genomics projects between my lab and that of Hervé Vanderschuren at KU Leuven & Université de Liège! Come join us in the land of 🍫 & 🍻 for some exciting science!

Deelnemers gezocht voor nieuwe Belgische gezondheidsstudie BELCOHORT - we gaan op zoek naar verbanden tussen gezondheid, milieu en maatschappij. Iedereen die in België woont en tussen 18 en 79 jaar oud is, kan deelnemen. Aanmelden voor 30 april. sciensano.be/nl/node/72073/…

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Sanne Verdonck, Koenraad Van Meerbeek & Bart Muys explored how competition reduction affects drought stress and growth in European beech and pedunculate oak. Results? Beech benefits, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution! Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs…

Each month, we shine a spotlight on one of our colleagues in our FNL division 🌳 and share their interesting research topics! 🔍 Today, we present the topic of Margot Verhulst: Forest monitoring with Sentinel-2 time series in Flanders. 🌳🌲

Hoe eeuwen van drainage de Kempen kwetsbaar maken voor droogte #Kempen #drainage #droogte #geschiedenis #CAG KU Leuven vilt.be/nl/nieuws/hoe-…

Gezocht: uw expertise over pollenallergie in de praktijk! medi-sfeer.be/nl/nieuws/gezo…

Our soil scientists at the Edaphos and Restore research groups had the great opportunity to present and discuss their soil related scientific work at the Day of the Young Soil Scientists organized by the Belgian Soil Science Society! Congrats for the great contributions👏

New tech from KU Leuven's VANDERSCHUREN LAB and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT enables transgene-free genome editing in sterile bananas via CRISPR base editing. A major step for climate-resilient crops. 🧬 New Phytologist: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #PlantScience #CRISPR #BananaResearch

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Check our latest BioWood paper, exploring current and future wood availability across Flanders, Belgium, using the Sim4Tree decision support system. 🔗 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1093/forest…

It’s a great pleasure to host the group of Prof. Arn Mignon KU Leuven Research under the support of Una_Europa University of Helsinki . Looking forward to the trip to Leuven soon!

Congratulations to Liezl Vermeulen for the successful defense of her PhD thesis! 👏🎓 Liezl presented her research on “disentangling the impacts of climate change and local anthropogenic degradation on South African ecosystems using remote sensing.” 🛰️

Each month, we shine a spotlight on one or multiple colleagues in our FNL division 🌳 and share their interesting research topics! 🔍 Today, we present the topic of Ieben Broeckhoven: Unpacking the Agroecological Potential of Robusta Coffee Systems in the DR Congo. 🍃☕

Our latest paper is out: peerj.com/articles/cs-.... We added functionality to the #HDBSCAN clustering algorithm to also detect branches hdbscan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ho... #eda #datavis #clustering

Review by Vangenechten et al. KU Leuven Plant Institute Frontiers - Plant Science How to improve the potential of #microalgal #biostimulants for #abiotic stress mitigation in #plants? frontiersin.org/journals/plant… Plant Science MicroAlgal Recombinants Network AminoA Biostimulants Ltd European Biostimulants Summit microalgae tech Plant physiology UPV Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts)

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