It is holiday season! But of course we have information we would like to share with you.

First of all, most of you already received the Current Research 2010. An impressive book with 434 pages describing the research done within the Graduate School VLAG. Thanks for your input! If you did not receive the CR2010 yet it will reach you in the next couple of weeks.

Secondly please note the first upcoming course in the fall. The course 'Exposure Assessment in Nutrition Research' and the 24th edition of the VLAG PhDweek (see article) are already fully booked. But you still can register for the Master class Public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience (deadline September 3rd!)

Have a nice summer.

The deadline for submitting information for the 31st VLAG FLASH is Monday October 4th, 2010.

The deadline for pre-proposals was postponed from 1st June till 1st July 2010. On the 6th of July the VLAG Management Team reviewed the 20 pre-proposals that were submitted.
Ten pre-proposals were short-tracked to the full proposal round, the authors of two pre-proposals were asked to provide additional information, and eight pre-proposals were rejected.

The 10 successful applicants are:

•	Dr. Serve Kengen (WU-Microbiology) in collaboration with WU-Biochemistry and Systems & Synthetic Biology,
•	Dr. Marcus Stieger (WU-Sensory Science & Eating Behaviour) in collaboration with WU-Food Physics,
•	Dr. Henk Schols (WU-Food Chemistry) in collaboration with RIKILT,
•	Dr. Peter Hendriksen (RIKILT) in collaboration with WU-Toxicology,
•	Prof. Tinka Murk (WU-Toxicology) in collaboration with WU-Nutrition & Epidemiology,
•	Dr. Peter Hollman (WU-Nutrition & Health) in collaboration with WU-Nutrition & Epidemiology,
•	Dr. Eleonora Koehler (UM-Anatomy & Embryology) in collaboration with WU-Nutrition & Pharmacology,
•	Prof. Renger Witkamp (WU-Nutrition & Pharmacology) in collaboration with WU-Food Chemistry,
•	Prof. Ronald Mensink (UM-Human Biology) in collaboration with WU-Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics, and
•	Prof. Vitor Martins dos Santos (WU-Systems & Synthetic Biology) in collaboration WU-Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics

Full proposals are due before 1st November 2010 (17.00 h). It is expected that 7 proposals can be funded.

Joop Luten will be the new professor in Seafood. His position will be at the group of WU - Product Design and Quality Management. His appointment is for 0.2 fte and he will combine this position with his current job at Nofima (Norwegian Institute of Fishers and Aquaculture Research), Tromso, Norway. The chair is funded by IMARES.

During the 'Dag van de Valorisatie' on June 8th, 2010 Willem de Vos has been awarded as the Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of The Netherlands 2010.
Willem de Vos has been elected out a group of 14 candidates nominated by principals and student counselors of all Dutch Universities. He has been praised of his remarkable entrepreneurial spirit, beside his outstanding scientific reputation. (visit Valorisatie.nu, in Dutch)

Since the announcement of the registration for the 24th edition of the PhD week (25 - 28 October 2010) the responses came in very quickly. In the meantime there is a 'reserve list' and we will have to close the registration before the suggested closing date.
The dates for the two 2011 editions for the PhD week are:
25th edition: 11 - 14 April 2011
26th edition: 7 - 10 November 2011
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For additional information please contact Vesna.Prsic@wur.nl.

• H.M. Teles (Helena) Collagen-like block copolymers with tunable design. Production in yeast and functional characterisation. 07-09-2010, 13:30 hrs, Wageningen Prof. G. Eggink, Dr. F.A. de Wolf • Y. Westphal (Yvonne) Analytical profiling of plant cell wall polysaccharides. 08-09-2010, 13:30 hrs, Wageningen Prof. A.G.J. Voragen, Prof. H. Gruppen, Dr. H.A. Schols • L.A.J. van Mierlo (Linda) Nutritional interventions and blood pressure. Role of specific micronutrients and bio-active compounds. 08-09-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. F.J. Kok, Dr. J.M. Geleijnse, Dr. P.L. Zock • F.J. Chadare (Flora) Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) foods from Benini: composition, processing, and quality. 09-09-2010, 11:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. M.A.J.S. van Boekel, Prof. J. Hounhouigan, Dr. A.R. Linnemann, Dr. M.J.R. Nout • S. Croezen (Simone) Social relationships and healthy ageing. Epidemiological evidence for the development of a local intervention programme. 13-09-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. P. van 't Veer, Prof. C.P.G.M. de Groot, Dr. A. Haveman-Nies • S. Rebe Raz (Sabina) On-Chip Food Safety Monitoring: Multi-analyte Screening with Imaging Surface Plasmon Resonance-based Biosensor. 13-09-2010, 13:30 hrs, Wageningen Prof. W. Norde, Dr. M.G.E.G. Bremer • A.M. Sotoca Covaleda (Ana Maria) Unravelling the mechanism of differential biological responses induced by food-borne xeno-and phyto-estrogenic compounds. 14-09-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. I.M.C.M. Rietjens, Prof. A.J. Murk, Dr. J.J.M. Vervoort • R. Gao (Ran) Ion speciation in milk-like systems. 29-09-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. M.A.J.S. van Boekel, Dr. H. van Leeuwen • M. Rakhshandehroo (Maryam) PPARα: Master regulation of lipid metabolism in mouse and human. Identification of hepatic PPARα target genes by expression profiling. 04-10-2010, 11:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. M. Müller, Dr. S. Kersten • J.M. Pimenta Ferreira de Oliveira (José Miguel) Functional genomics analysis of the secretory pathway in Aspergillus niger. 05-10-2010, 13:30 hrs, Wageningen Prof. J. van der Oost, Dr. L.H. de Graaff • M.W. den Besten-Stellingwerff (Heidy) Quantification of Bacillus cereus stress responses. 06-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. M.H. Zwietering, Prof. T. Abee, Dr. R. Moezelaar • P.J. Roubos-van den Hil (Petra) Bioactive components of fermented soya beans effective against diarrhoea-associated bacteria. 08-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. M.H. Zwietering, Prof. H. Gruppen, Dr. M.J.R. Nout • R. Cuypers (Ruud) Hydrogen bonding in the recovery of phenols and methyl-t-butyl ether. 13-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. H. Zuilhof, Prof. E.J.R. Sudhölter • A. Gerssen (Arjen) The analysis of lipophilic marine toxins. Development of an alternative method. 15-10-2010, 13:30 hrs, Wageningen Prof. I.M.C.M. Rietjens, Prof. J. de Boer, Dr. P.P.J. Mulder • M.M. Jore (Matthijs) CRISPR-mediated antiviral defence in prokaryotes. 20-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. J. van der Oost, Dr. S.J.J. Brouns • D.M.M. Kleinegris (Dorinde) Milking of microalgae revisited. 29-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen Prof. R.H. Wijffels, Dr. M.G.J. Janssen, Dr. W.A. Brandenburg

•	Exposure Assessment in Nutrition Research - 1st edition 30 August - 3 September 2010, Wageningen After participation the participant will be able to: critically evaluate and improve data collection in nutritional epidemiology and related fields of health research, and understand and have basic experience in design and analysis of evaluation studies.
•	NuGO week 2010 31 August - 3 September 2010, Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
•	Sodium, Potassium and Cardiovascular Health 8 September 2010 (morning), Wageningen Mini symposium organised on the occasion of the public defense of the PhD thesis "Nutritional Interventions and Blood Pressure: role of specific micronutrients and other food components" by Linda van Mierlo. The symposium is jointly hosted by Wageningen University and Unilever. Registration is free of charge.
•	Advanced Course on Applied Genomics of Industrial Fermentation - 4th edition 11 - 15 October 2010, Wageningen This course aims to familiarize industrial and academic research professionals with the modern concepts of genomics, their use in microbial research and development, and their utility in contemporary biotechnological industry. The link above gives information on the previous edition of this course.
•	VLAG PhD week - 24th edition 25 - 28 October 2010 This activity is a compulsory part of the VLAG education programme and it is meant for PhD students that have recently started their PhD study. The aim of the PhD week is to combine training skills with lectures on interesting scientific topics. Note: the 24th edition is fully booked.
•	Annual NUTRIM Symposium 2010 Information will follow as soon as possible. 4 November 2010, Maastricht
•	Master class Public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience 8 - 10 November 2010, Wageningen The master class is especially developed for public health researchers and professionals from practice, working in the field of health promotion, epidemiology, nutrition and health sciences, and communication sciences. It aims is to make knowledge and research methodologies available to researchers working in public health practice.
•	Advanced Food Analysis - 3rd edition 15 - 19 November 2010, Wageningen
•	Production and use of food composition data in nutrition 15 - 26 November 2010, Pretoria, South Africa The aim of FoodComp is to show how the quality and usefulness of food composition data is determined by the quality of the production of analytical data for nutrients in foods, and the compilation of these and other data into food composition tables and nutritional databases.
•	Genetics and physiology of food-associated microorganisms - 4th edition 22 - 24 November 2010, Wageningen This advanced course aims to develop expertise in the genetics and physiology of food-associated micro-organisms, in particular with respect to their reactions to variety of stresses that can be imposed deliberately on micro-organisms during food processing, by food preservation techniques and during distribution and storage.
•	Systems biology course: Statistics of ~omics data analysis - 5th edition 13 - 17 December 2010, Wageningen This course will focus on the principles underlying processing, analysis and visualisation of large datasets derived from transcriptomics and metabolomics experiments. The link above gives information on the previous edition of this course.

Celine op den Kamp (UM - Respiratory Medicine) received the Zon Mw Agiko grant. The title of the grant application is in Dutch: "Moleculaire mechanismen van spieratrofie in kankercachexie: de rol van het ubiquitine 26S-proteasoom systeem en spiermassaregulatie door microRNA's" (visit ZonMw, in Dutch)

2 PhD students from NUTRIM were awarded with the Kootstra Talent Fellowship, Spring 2010

•	Ruth Meex, Human Movement Sciences, for her research titled: 'Determine the regulation and the in vivo importance of proteins involved in lipolysis and energy homeostasis'.
•	Miranda Nabben, Human Biology, for her research titled: 'The role of uncoupling protein (UCP) 3 in the development of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure'.

•	Techniques for Writing and Presenting a Scientific Paper - 31 August (visit WGS)
•	Scientific Writing - 6 September (visit Language Services)
•	Project- and Time Management - 7 September (visit WGS)
•	Communication with the Media and the General Public - 7 October (visit WGS)
•	Career Perspectives - 19 October (visit WGS)
•	Interpersonal Communication for PhD students - 26 October (visit WGS)
•	Effective behaviour in your professional surroundings - 3 November (visit WGS)
•	PhD Competence Assessment - 9 November (visit WGS)
•	Information Literacy, incl. Introduction Endnote - 9 November (visit WGS)
•	Interdisciplinary Research: Crucial knowledge and skills - 11 November (visit WGS)

•	Effective leadership styles (a Practical course for PhD supervisors) - 30 November (visit WGS)

•	NWO-Talent Classes A Talent Class is an extensive workshop, based on the Talent Day. In 2010, Talent Classes will be organised on: 28 September, 9 November, and 7 December. Registration for the Fall Talent Classes is open. (visit NWO)
•	Training programmes EG Liaison EG-Liaison organises training events to inform (potential) applicants on all aspects of constructing, submitting and managing projects within the Framework Programme. Trainings include basics of the Framework Programme, project management, juridical and financial, as well as specialized in-house courses. Upcoming events and trainings can be found on the website. (visit SenterNovem)
•	Advanced Computer Aided Modelling The course provides coverage of introductory and advanced process modelling and solution concepts for lumped and distributed systems, discrete event and hybrid systems. Mechanistic and data-based modelling concepts are also covered. 6 - 10 September 2010, University of Twente (visit OSPT)
•	European PhD Conference in Food Science and Technology / BerlinFOOD2010 Young food scientists of the 21st century should possess information and skills to deliver knowledge to industry to be used to develop new or improved products that will expand national, regional and global markets, create employment and benefit society. Through TCD young scientists and technologists shall gain much wider range of skills than simply good laboratory practice. 8 - 10 September 2010, Berlin, Germany (visit BerlinFOOD2010)
•	PhD workshop China 2010 The workshop provides leading overseas graduate schools a focused opportunity to meet top graduates from the most important colleges and universities across China. 27 - 28 November 2010, Beijing, China (visit Ph.D Workshop China)