Plant Research Ireland
Homepage of the Irish Plant Scientists' Association
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Upcoming Events
FESPB Plant Biology Congress 2014 in Dublin
22 - 26 June, 2014
Opportunities
M.Sc. Program in Plant Biology at UCD
Funding
Upcoming Events
Public Lecture by Prof. Charles Godfray
Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food
"The Challenge of Global Food Security"
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Charles Godfray will be speaking at the Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress public lecture on Tuesday, 24th June at 7 p.m. The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food are helping to integrate, advance and disseminate wide-ranging research at Oxford on the global food system. This includes scientific, economic, social and environmental issues of food production and consumption, as well as challenges for health, sustainability and development. Charles Godfray is a population biologist with broad interests in science and the interplay of science and policy. His academic work involves experimental and theoretical studies in population and community ecology, and in evolutionary biology. He is particularly interested in food security and chaired the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government Office of Science’s Foresight project on the Future of Food and Farming which reported in January 2011. He has been Hope Professor in the Zoology Department at Oxford University since 2006 and before that was at Imperial College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. At Oxford he is Director of the Oxford Martin Program on the Future of Food and charged with bringing together researcher with interests in food throughout the University.
22 - 26 June, 2014
Past Events
Irish Plant Science Association Meeting 2014
University College Cork
28 - 29 April, 2014