Monthly Archives: May 2023

Our project coordinator, Kalliope Papadopoulou, will take part in the Women Leading the Green Future: PRIMA’s Empowerment and Gender Perspectives at EU Green Week 2023. Dr Papadopoulou will present the strategy and results from Work Package 7 (WP7) of the INTOMED project to the EU Green Week event organised by PRIMA in 5 - 6 June 2023. Learn more about the event here.

Together with our collaborating partners and coordinating team at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly, we organised two in-person training courses on small RNA plant protection and microbiome analysis. Our training course on "Small RNA-mediated plant protection" was a great success! During the two days of the course, with the guidance of Athanasios Dalakouras from the Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, the participants discovered the overall background of RNAi mechanisms, tried out plant injections and had inspiring discussions on developing novel tools! After our very successful training course on small RNA, Dr Sotirios Vasileiadis, Assistant Professor in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Genomics, delivered a 5-day practical course on 'Primer on microbiome analysis'. The participants dived deeper into 'metabarcoding' methodologies and microbial diversity analysis whilst using computational tools for handling the volume of sequencing data. For this workshop, INTOMED collaborated closely...