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17
Jul

NEWCOTIANA in the ALLEA-KVAB Symposium on “GENOME EDITING FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT”

The meeting was organized by ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) and took place at the Academy Palace in Brussels 7 and 8 November 2019. The Symposium is an initiative to give response to the ruling by The...
15
Mar

Newcotiana 1st Annual meeting

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Newcotiana 1st Annual meeting  was held on 5 – 6 march 2019 hosted by the PGB Research group of the IBMCP (CSIC-UPV) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The meeting was attended by 46 attendees with representatives of all participating institutions and the Advisory Board. In addition to NEWCOTIANA internal reunions, the...
22
Feb

Plant biofactories in the genome engineering era

Plants have been traditionally used as sustainable sources of valuable bioproducts, from aromas to medicines. New breeding techniques as CRISPR/Cas editing, in the context of a deeper understanding of plant genomes, open new opportunities for plant biofactories. Which new products can we expect to be produced in plants in the future? How is this opportunity...
18
Jan

Newcotiana reaches out for the young generations

As part of the dissemination activities NEWCOTIANA partners from CSIC have been leading an  initiative sponsored by Fundació Bosch i Cardellach, in collaboration with Sabadell Municipality (Catalunya, Spain), that has as a main objective to get local  citizens acquainted with the methods scientists use to acquire knowledge. Following the “Christmas Lectures” organized by the Royal...
15
Sep

NEWCOTIANA at the London Design Festival

From 15 – 23 September, 2018, we joined Open Cell’s Biodesign Here Now for London Design Festival 2018. Have a look at the Plant Designer exhibition we designed for Newcotiana in collaboration with Pharma-Factory!
15
Mar

Newcotiana will be present at the 3rd Meeting of The International Society for Plant Molecular Farming

Newcotiana will be present at the 3rd Meeting of The International Society for Plant MolecularFarming held in Helsinlki, Finland, June 11-13 2018 http://www.ispmf.org/
15
Feb

The Newcotiana kick off meeting took place in Brussels 8-9 February 2018

A total of forty delegates from 19 partner organizations next to project officer and externaladvisors attended to the first meeting of the Newcotiana project. During the kick off meeting,the research and dissemination strategies for the first twelve months of the project wasintensively discussed.