Dear all,
As we mentioned in the editorial of the last SPS Newsletter, the Paris-Saclay "Plant Sciences" community submitted a project entitled "SPS Graduate School of Research" (SPS-GSR) at the end of June, in response to the call "Ecoles Universitaires de Recherche" as part of the “Investments for the Future” program. We are very pleased to announce that this project is one of 29 selected projects (out of 194 submitted nationally). The general objective of SPS-GSR is to strengthen the interactions between teaching/training and research, and the internationalization of these activities. Thus, we believe that this structure will provide a permanent framework for reflection and animation in order to adapt its activities to changes of the academic, scientific and socio-economic contexts and to ensure the quality, relevance and visibility of our research, teaching, training and innovation activities at the highest level, thus strongly boosting the impact and attractiveness of Paris-Saclay in Plant Sciences. | In this letter you will also find information on several highlights of the year 2017: the training course "From gene expression to networks", which was a great success, the “Fête de la Science”, in which SPS has participated for the past 5 years and the Saclay Plant'Innov' event, the annual meeting with new potential private partners. In the same spirit, you will also discover the work carried out within the framework of the "SPInn" SPS2020 project in order to develop SPS partnership. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to two major SPS events that will take place in 2018 and which we hope many of you will attend: the "International SPS Conference 2018: Plant Sciences for the Future" (July 4-6) and, soon after, the “SPS Summer School 2018: Plant epigenetics and epigenomics” (July 8-13). Happy reading ! Loïc Lepiniec |
| Winning ticket for the “SPS-GSR” project On last October 24, we learned that the "Saclay Plant Sciences Graduate School of Research" project, submitted in June, was one of the laureates of the "Ecole Universitaire de Recherche" call for projects, launched as part of the Investments for the Future program !
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▉ Infrastructures • Thermophoresis An innovative method for biomolecular interaction analysis 
• Photosynthetic processes In vivo real-time measurements 
• IPSEP The epigenomics platform dedicated to plants 
• SPS Common tools Open call Equipment available to the SPS community Between 2013 and 2017, SPS partially or totally funded 51 pieces of equipment through the Common tools call. You will find here the list of pieces of equipment and apparatus acquired via this call and the contact details of the people who are in charge of them.
Read... ▉ Recent highlights • 2nd semester 2017 Read... | ▉ Innovation • Saclay Plant’ Innov’ 2017 A look back at the event The 2017 Saclay Plant’ Innov' event, on the topic "Plants: a reservoir of innovation!", was held on Tuesday, November 21st at the Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2). It gathered around 100 participants, including more than 50 members of the SPS LabEx and 30 representatives of companies.Read... • SPInn Saclay Plant Innovation This project aims to promote, facilitate and develop collaborative projects between LabEx research teams and socio-economic partners (startups, microenterprises-SME, large companies, cooperatives, other laboratories, etc.). By increasing the connections between the academic and private sectors, SPInn aims at stimulating both research and innovation.Read... ▉ Teaching and training • Training course “From gene expression to networks” A real success! 
▉ General public • SPS at the Fête de la Science 2017 Various workshops during 3 days From October 13th to 15th, SPS proudly displayed its research in the Paris-Saclay Science Village, the largest science village in the south-Paris region, at the Moulon gymnasium.Read... |
