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The James Hutton Institute prefer to take advantage of the season and deliver outdoor demos in the field and walk through the raspberry and blackcurrant plots. The scientific talks/presentations and project updates are still an essential part of our soft fruit events programme so these are now the focus of our SSCR Soft Fruit Winter Meetings held in February of each year. The progamme for this event can be found here. Registration is not yet open, official invites will be sent out later in the year but if you would like to register your interest in attending, please contact Pam Cassidy, Events
Details of field demonstrations and indoor displays etc will be published in due course. Watch this space! The event is being held at Saphock Farm which is located on the A920 between Oldmeldrum and Meikle Wartle. There will be a few event signs on the A920 - look out for these so you don't miss the turn off to Saphock Farm. Registration is not currently open, official invites will come out later in the year, but if you would like to register your interest in attending please contact us using the details below. If you have any queries about the event or to register your interest in attending
The programme can be found here and will cover the following five sessions: Innovation in Realistic Healthcare The Wonders of Bacteria The 3 G's - Genes, Genomes and Genotypes Pitch Perfect: Business Innovation Competition Designing the Future
Please note that this meeting is free for SSCR members but there is a £15 attendance fee for non-members. Membership of SSCR costs £15 a year and there will be the opportunity to join at the meeting. Please register your interest in attending this meeting to: Pam Cassidy Events Co-ordinator The James Hutton Institute Dundee DD2 5DA Tel: 01382 568 751 Email: events@hutton.ac.uk
CPNB 2018 is organised by The Association for Crop Protection in Northern Britain, a non-profit making Registered Charity which brings together T he James Hutton Institute, Scotland's Rural College, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, SNH and the agricultural trade in Scotland. The programme can be found here.
Following the screening there will be time for discussion with James Hutton Institute scientists whose research is contributing to the understanding of social and environmental issues raised in the film. The evening will conclude with the opportunity to join others in Aberdeen in reducing our own plastic consumption with a plastic-free challenge. More information can be found here.
This event is free of charge but attendees are requested to pre-register so that sufficient catering can be provided. The programme for this event can be found here. Please confirm your attendance by no later than 8th February 2018 to: Pam Cassidy Events Co-ordinator The James Hutton Institute Dundee DD2 5DA Tel: 01382 568 751 Email: events@hutton.ac.uk
The first section of this talk will highlight the resistance mechanism(s) which have been identified within HsP5 and discuss the implications of insect resistance on additional trophic levels. The latter half of the talk will discuss how a changing climate effects this system, focusing mainly on the effect of drought and water limitation on the interactions between these two different plant species and their aphid pests.
09:30 Arrival and coffee 10:00 Talk by Sophie Warnes, Office for National Statistics 11:00 Interactive group session 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Talk by Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University 14:15 Mini-hackathon 16:00 Team presentations 16:20 Feedback and close Sophie Warnes from the Office for National Statistics will be opening the Visualization Workshop on Tuesday 6 February with her talk entitled “Creating Effective Data Visualizations”. The abstract for that talk: “Data visualization is a key way to present data to people, and it's all around us today, in reports, presentations, and articles
By applying our unique skills in sheep immunology, we have discovered that BTV can infect and kill the very cells that stimulate the production of antibodies, This was the first description of such mechanism in a sheep disease and provides a unique perspective on how arboviruses can cause rapid and fatal diseases.