Teaching assistant positions are still available for the fall term:
PLNT 0760 Special Crops;
PLNT 2510 Fundamentals of Horticulture;
DAGR 0420 Introductory Soils and Crops (for the crops labs).
Let me know right away if you want to apply for any of these.
--
Martha Blouw, Academic Advisor
Department of Plant Science
226 Agriculture Building
66 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8223 Fax: (204) 474-7528
http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/plant_science/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Grad. lounge petty shop
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:42:00 -0500
From: umbagava(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
To: godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
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Hi all,
The petty shop is back at the grad. lounge and we only sell pocket/cup
noodles and pops at this time. We bought a mouse proof container -
please make sure the container is always closed.
Cost of the items:
Pocket noodles: 25 cents each
Cup noodels: $1 each
Pop: 50 cents each
Please *PAY *for your purchase. The coin box is located in the shelves.
Thanks
Muthu
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Postdoctoral position - crop modeling
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:37:16 -0500
From: umbagava(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
To: godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
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Post doctoral position in crop modeling at INRA, France
The postdoctoral research fellow will work as part of a young
interdisciplinary team in an exciting bilateral research initiative
between France (UMR1095 GDEC, Clermont-Ferrand) and Great Britain
(University of Nottingham, John Innes Centre, and Rothamsted Research)
(http://www.rothamst ed.bbsrc. ac.uk/bab/ mas-projects/ NUE.html
<http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/mas-projects/NUE.html>). This
project aims at a better understanding of the ecophysiological and
genetic determinism of high nitrogen use efficiency and high and stable
grain protein concentration under variable environment for bread wheat.
The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary group of
scientists (crop physiologists, modellers, geneticists, and molecular
biologists) actively working on wheat ecophysiology and genetics, and
developing the /SiriusQuality/1 wheat simulation model [Plant Physiol.
133(4)1959-1967; Eur. J. Agron. 25(2):138-154] . This model is designed
to simulate mechanistically, at the square meter scale, wheat
development, growth, and dry matter and nitrogen allocations. It allows
to better understand genotype x environment interactions and to
decompose complex traits, such as NUE and grain protein concentration,
into elementary processes and traits, which are independent of the
environment.
The successful applicant will be in charge of the model validation based
on the large experimental dataset obtained during the first part of the
project. This dataset includes two years, 4 locations, 16 genotypes and
2 nitrogen fertilisation treatments. This work should highlight the
possible lack in the model framework and lead to their correction.
In a second time a global sensitivity analysis of the entire model input
variables and parameters should be performed. This work aims at
detecting parameters that are proxies for true and simple physiological
traits that have stable effects on variable of interest like yield,
grain protein concentration and nitrogen use efficiency. The genetic
determinism of the physiological traits identified through simulation
analysis will then be analysed for several related mapping populations
(QTL detection). The latter part of the work will be performed by the
geneticists involved in the project. The results of these researches
should identify physiological traits and genetic loci associated with
improved stability of grain protein concentration and high nitrogen use
efficiency while conserving high grain yield potential.
For the full announcement, please see the project web site at
:<http://www.rothamst ed.bbsrc. ac.uk/bab/ mas-projects/ NUE/Downloads/
PostDocINRA. pdf>
<http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/mas-projects/NUE/Downloads/PostDocINR…>:
Best regards,
Muthu
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
Please see the attached information regarding deadlines for graduation.
--
Martha Blouw, Academic Advisor
Department of Plant Science
226 Agriculture Building
66 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8223 Fax: (204) 474-7528
http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/plant_science/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fwd: Announcement of Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships for 2008 -
Candidate
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:16 -0500
From: umbagava(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
To: godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
Hi Bev,
Please forward this to all graduate students in plant science.
Thanks
Muthu
----- Forwarded message from e.rossetti(a)CGIAR.ORG -----
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:08:18 +0200
From: "Rossetti, Elisabetta (Bioversity)" <e.rossetti(a)CGIAR.ORG>
Reply-To: "Rossetti, Elisabetta (Bioversity)" <e.rossetti(a)CGIAR.ORG>
Subject: Announcement of Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships for 2008 - Candidate
To: "Rossetti, Elisabetta (Bioversity)" <e.rossetti(a)CGIAR.ORG>
> <<VFF 2009.zip>>
>
> Dear Scientist,
>
> Following your espression of interest in the recent past, I am glad to
> inform you that the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships 2009 have been
> announced.
> Please find attached the English files of announcement, application
> form and guidelines for preparation of research proposals; the files
> are also downloadable from our website
> http://www.bioversityinternational.org/index.php?id=49#c285 where you
> can also find someadditional information on the fellowship scheme and
> the past awarded fellows, as well as French and Spanish version of the
> files; should you have any problem in downloading from the website,
> please do not hesitate in contacting me.
> Should you not be interested anymore, please could you distribute
> these as widely as possible among your network, colleagues and young
> scientists, including at any meetings and training courses you attend.
> The Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships Fund aims to encourage the
> conservation and use of plant genetic resources in developing
> countries by awarding Fellowships to outstanding young researchers to
> carry out relevant innovative research at an advanced research
> institute outside their own country for a period of between three
> months and one year.
> The Fellowships are supported by the Grains Research and Development
> Corporation (GRDC), Australia and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.,
> United States, a DuPont Company. The closing date for this year's
> Fellowships is 9 November 2008.
> The age limit of 35 is applied strictly on these Fellowships.
> I remain at your disposal for any further help or support.
> I wish you success in your work.
> Yours sincerely
> Elisabetta Rossetti
> Vavilov Frankel Fellowship Secretariat
> ************************************
> Elisabetta Rossetti
> Programme Assistant to Head
> Capacity Development
> Research and Support Unit
> Bioversity International
> Via dei Tre Denari 472/a
> 00057 MACCARESE (Fiumicino)
> Rome, Italy
> Email: e.rossetti(a)cgiar.org
> Tel. (39) 06 6118207
> Fax (39) 06 61979661
> www.bioversityinternational.org
> Bioversity International, Bioversity for short, is the operating name
> of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the
> International Network for Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP).
> With our partners, we undertake research aimed at improving people's
> lives through the use and conservation of agricultural biodiversity.
>
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Information for Graduands
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:46:03 -0500
From: Brenda Grabowski <Brenda_Grabowski(a)umanitoba.ca>
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: children's garden
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:27:52 -0500
From: umvaisma(a)cc.umanitoba.ca
To: Bev Godard <godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca>
Hi Everyone!
Once again, good job to everyone for helping out at the BBQ! We've
raised 500$ for the children's garden. We are organizing a trip down to
the garden to see how they are doing and to lend a hand one afternoon.
Their program runs on Wednesdays from 3 pm to 5 pm. If you are
interested in visiting the garden, please let me know as soon as
possible, which day is better for you:
Wednesday August 20 or Wednesday August 27
The garden is in the Spence neighbourhood. We will all go to the garden
together, so don't worry if you don't know the way!
Iris
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
Good afternoon to all,
I will be taking an inventory of all the theses in Rm 215 next week. If
you have taken a thesis(es) from that room (which you are not supposed
to do), would you please return it.
Thank you.
Have a good weekend.
Bev
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 2009 Plant Science Graduate Student's Symposium
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:01:24 -0500
From: Victoria Gauthier <umgauthv(a)cc.umanitoba.ca>
To: Bev Godard <godardbd(a)cc.umanitoba.ca>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello everyone!
The graduate symosium is coming up and in order for it to be a success
we need financial help from corporations. For those of you who don't
know what the graduate symposium is, it is a set of seminars put on by
the graduate students from the department of plant science from the
University of Saskatchewan, the University of Manitoba and the
University of North Dakota. Every year the symposium rotates between
these three universities. This year (March 2009) we will be hosting
this event.
What I am asking of you is if you have any connections with an
agricultural (or otherwise) corporation that would be willing to make a
financial donation to this symposium. Please let me know as we have set
the deadline for hearing back from the sponsors to September 8 (which is
coming up VERY quickly).
Please let me know if you can help us out.
Thanks!
Victoria (umgauthv(a)cc.umanitoba.ca <mailto:umgauthv@cc.umanitoba.ca>)
--
Bev Godard
Secretary
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-8563
Fax: (204) 474-7528
Bev_Godard(a)umanitoba.ca
