BBSRC international schemes Our International Schemes range from short term travel awards which help scientists establish new contacts for their existing BBSRC-funded research, through to Partnering Awards, which support long-term collaborations with overseas scientists. More information at https://bbsrc.ukri.org/research/international/funding/schemes/
Call status: Open Application deadline: 14 November 2019, 16:00 Aims To set up partnership links between UK and European laboratories To promote the exchange of scientists, particularly early career scientists To promote access to facilities. Scope Funds can only be used for travel, subsistence and other activities, such as workshops or exchanges. They are not…
Do you have an exciting and ambitious Big Idea? Introducing the Biosciences Big Ideas Pipeline. UKRI-BBSRC is excited to launch the ‘Bioscience Big Ideas Pipeline’, a pilot programme through which we aim to engage with our broad research and innovation community in a quest to identify adventurous and exciting ideas that have the potential to…
RT: 4th call for transnational access to #phenotyping facilities within #EPPN2020 funded by the the @EU_H2020 R&I Programme is open https://eppn2020.plant-phenotyping.eu/Access_Call
At the launch meeting, we asked you, ‘what you would like to see the network doing?’ One of the suggestions was to have access todataset storage facilities, particularly one holding annotated images for use during the development of machine learning methods. We are hoping to bring this facility to our network members soon, by opening…
BBSRC is working with stakeholders across the UK plant and crop phenotyping community to put together a national strategic vision and roadmap around EMPHASIS and PhenomUK – please contact Richard.Traini@bbsrc.ukri.orgif you want to take part in the conversations”
Sharing the Right Data Right: A Symbiosis with Machine Learning Sotirios A. Tsaftaris and Hanno Scharr, In 2014 plant phenotyping research was not benefiting from the machine learning (ML) revolution because appropriate data were lacking. We report the success of the first open-access dataset suitable for ML in image-based plant phenotyping suitable for machine learning, fuelling a true interdisciplinary symbiosis, increased awareness, and steep performance improvements on key phenotyping…
UKRI announces Technology Touching Life Network in Plant Phenomics. PhenomUK will lead one of five research networks to share a £3 million award through a joint technology initiative that will harness new and emerging developments from engineering and physical sciences to advance discovery research in the life science. Technology Touching life is a joint initiative between…
