We are pleased to announce that IPRRG is hosting a monthly webinar series! Anyone can attend one of our webinars by following the webcast link on the "IPRRG Webinar Series" page. Recordings are also available afterward via IPRRG's YouTube channel.
A new Group project, known by the nickname "Project X", emerged from the IPRRG 2018 meeting in Taichung, Taiwan. The project is intended to focus the skills and talents of IPRRG on a pressing global issue. A full prospectus for the project is available on the Project X page.
The brown marmorated stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys) is an invasive pest. IPRRG has a project to prepare a global pest risk assessment for this pest.
A three year Postdoctoral Fellowship research scientist (PhD + up to three years post-doc equivalent experience) position based in Brisbane or Canberra in Australia is closing on 17 October 2021. This position is a great opportunity for an early career, highly motivated research scientist who is excited about using their quantitative analytical and modelling skills to generate practical, biosecurity tools and […]
UK Research and Innovation, together with partners, is presenting a Climate Adaptation and Resilience online events series to mark the run-up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021. The next event in the series may be of great interest to IPRRG members! What does the climate […]
Thanks to IPRRG member Abby Walter for alerting us to this opportunity! USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) announces the opening of a Biological Scientist (Tree Biotechnologist) position, GS-0401-13 in USAJobs. This permanent position is located in BRAP’s Plants Branch in Riverdale, MD. The vacancy announcement opened September 16, 2021 […]
The open access journal Plants is soliciting manuscripts as part of a special issue, “Weaponizing Plants: Biocontrol and Biosecurity in Plant Protection” — see the call below. You can download the special issue flyer or, better yet, visit mdpi.com/si/77480 to get additional details, including titles and abstracts of published and planned papers. The deadline for […]
Prof. Chris Gilligan’s lab in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge is currently seeking a mathematical and computational modeller, with experience in Bayesian parameter estimation, to develop and adapt a modelling framework for a major disease of plantation crops for use at landscape and country-wide scales. A stochastic, spatially-explicit modelling framework […]