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Centre for Forest Protection at the IUFRO World Congress 2024
Centre for Forest Protection researchers had the opportunity to present work at the enormous IUFRO World Congress 2024. Find out what they made of it.
National Plant Health Week – Understanding a devastating bacterial pathogen
PhD student Jiaqi tells us about her work investigating potential impacts on British trees of a bacterial disease that is causing major problems for crop growers across the world.
Intern diary – Phoebe
Phoebe tells us what she got up to during her internship at Kew.
Intern Diary – Sian
Read about Sian’s six months as a Centre for Forest Protection intern.
Intern Diary – Eve
Find out about what our intern Eve got up to on her six month Centre for Forest Protection placement with Forest Research.
Sharing Expertise with Interns and Postdoctoral Researchers
Our interns had an exciting week. They presented their projects to our science teams and then had two days of visits to find out more about research at Kew and Forest Research. They were joined at the Forest Research tour by three of our Postdoctoral Researchers from Kew wanting to find out more about their partner organisation in the Centre for Forest Protection.
Squirrel snacks and troublesome badgers: The challenges of setting up research in the field
University of Southampton and Centre for Forest Protection PhD student Alexandra Ash is investigating the bark-stripping behaviour of grey squirrels to identify future methods to prevent tree damage. Alexandra tells us about the challenges of navigating problem-solving in the field to develop the best experimental set-up for feeding trials.
Curious cows and slime flux – a fieldwork update on our genetic bottlenecks project
Researchers Nikki Cotterill from Forest Research, and Guillermo Friis from Kew tell us about their fieldwork this spring and summer. They have been sampling trees for genomic analysis and assessing tree health in naturally colonised and planted woodlands.
European Ash – how an improved reference genome can help our research
Dr Daniel Wood, a Centre for Forest Protection Postdoctoral Research Associate is working on our ash pangenome project. A few years ago, Kew Scientists and QMUL produced the first reference genome for the ash tree. Daniel has been working on improving this genome, and the team have recently released this new reference genome for use by scientists. Here, he explains what a reference genome is, how it is used and why we need to update it for our work on ash dieback.
Intern diary – Nicola
Nicola made a video diary of her fieldwork
Intern diary – Alice P
Alice tells us about her experiences of fieldwork and data analysis
Intern diary – Alice J
Alice tells us about what she learnt during her CFP internship at Kew
Intern diary – Camila
Find out about Camila’s experience as a CFP intern
Intern Diary – Freya
Find out about Freya’s experience as a CFP intern.
Mohammad Explores the Kew Fungarium
Researcher Mohammad has been exploring the Kew Fungarium to find out more about the life-cycle of the fungus that causes Dutch elm disease.
Branching out with the Centre for Forest Protection – Our first cohort of interns
CFP Education and Training Officer, Suzanne Sancisi-Frey, tells us about the first CFP internship programme
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