by Louise Gathercole | May 16, 2025 | News
Louise Gathercole, CFP Coordinator I travelled to RHS Bridgewater near Manchester last weekend with PhD student (and former CFP intern and research assistant) Phoebe. We had a stand at the Royal Horticultural Society’s ‘Green Careers Event’ as part...
by Louise Gathercole | May 12, 2025 | News
On this International Day of Plant Health we are pleased to announce the launch of an e-learning module introducing some of the key pest and disease threats to our trees and woodlands. The CFP is developing continuous professional development (CPD) training for those...
by Louise Gathercole | May 6, 2025 | News
British woodlands and trees will benefit from new research aimed at boosting protection against environmental and socioeconomic threats. This National Plant Health Week we are delighted to announce that Defra investing £4 million in the Centre for Forest Protection...
by Louise Gathercole | Mar 20, 2025 | News
Kew researchers, Dr Laura Kelly and Dr Mohammad Vatanparast from our ash pangenome project recently organised a fascinating international online conference for fellow researchers working on ash tree genomics. They presented their own work on developing an ash...
by Louise Gathercole | Feb 12, 2025 | News
Join our webinars to find out about the outcomes of some of our projects and to hear from this year’s interns: 18th March 10:00 – 12:00 Elm Research Update Dr Joan Webber – Beetle behaviour and the performance of Dutch elm disease resistant elms...
by Louise Gathercole | Aug 9, 2024 | News
Our postdoctoral researcher, Dr Guillermo Friis, recently presented CFP work at the 3rd Joint Congress in Evolutionary Biology in Montreal. Guillermo was presenting the latest findings from our project evaluating genetic and environmental bottlenecks in planted and...
