Summer holidays are over. The programmes of all VLAG courses for the remainder of 2010 are available on-line. As we have still some places available for the Master class Public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience we decided to postpone the deadline for registration. If you are interested, please register ASAP, but before September 28th.

We also would like to draw your attention to the management information.
On Thursday September 23rd the next VLAG Contact Persons meeting will take place.
We also ask you to read the information regarding the Vini, Vidi, Vici rounds carefully.

The deadline for submitting information for the 32nd VLAG FLASH is 18 October 2010.

The next meeting of the VLAG Contact Persons will take place on Thursday, 23 September 2010, starting at 15:30 hrs in the lecture room 55 in Biotechnion (WUR building 307). We have invited Dr. Petra Caessens (manager operations CAT- AgroFood) as a guest speaker. Her presentation about the latest developments within the Centre for Advanced Technology for the Agrofood sector (CAT-AgroFood) will start at 16:30 hrs.
Other items on the agenda will be the re-accreditation procedure and the average time to graduation within VLAG.
If interested in joining the presentation please contact Vesna.Prsic@wur.nl.

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Limited submission possibilities for Veni en Vidi With effect from 2011 a new submission condition applies to applicants. For the Veni and Vidi rounds, researchers may only submit a proposal on two occasions. Only applicants who had already submitted a proposal twice before 2011 may make a third submission via a transitional arrangement. For Vici, researchers may submit a proposal on three occasions.

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New deadline Vidi The deadline for the Vidi round in 2011 is 4 October. With this change the deadline is shifted from February to October. For applicants who fall outside of the submission conditions as a result of this shift in deadline, a transitional arrangement applies: applicants who gained their doctorates between 1 January 2003 and 4 October 2003 can submit a Vidi proposal. Researchers who do not need to make use of the transitional arrangement fall within the standard conditions of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.

These appointments have taken place due to the outstanding merit of the persons concerned within their own disciplines together with their educational achievements and great personal qualities.

Willem van Berkel (Oss, 1952) is a national and international authority in the field of molecular enzymology, an area of great importance for many areas of research in Wageningen where enzyme working and biocatalysis occupy centre stage. He is a very productive researcher with a large number of publications, often in reputable journals, that are also regularly cited. His career has certainly not been a standard one: he began, in 1974, in Wageningen as a HBO-B analyst after which he progressed to become a university lecturer and, in 1989, he received his doctorate in Wageningen.

Hauke Smidt (Göttingen (D), 1967) is an expert in the field of molecular microbial ecology. He is the project leader for various European research projects and is also a visiting professor in Nanjing (China). Within his area of expertise, he performs successful and modernising research at the centre of the Wageningen UR strategy: climate, environment, bio-based research and nourishment and health. He is a prolific and outstanding researcher who, despite his relatively short academic career, has already been frequently cited. Furthermore, he has an extensive international network.

On 6 October there will be an introductory lunch for all Wageningen based PhD students who started recently. The lunch is from 12.30-13.30h. in the Blauwe Zaal (Biotechnion).
Please send an e-mail to Yvonne Smolders (Yvonne.Smolders@wur.nl) if you would like to join this lunch.

• 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 • 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 • 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 • R. Gao (Ran) Ion speciation in milk-like systems. 29-09-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen • 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 • 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 • M.W. den Besten-Stellingwerff (Heidy) Quantification of Bacillus cereus stress responses. 06-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen • 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 • R. Cuypers (Ruud) Hydrogen bonding in the recovery of phenols and methyl-t-butyl ether. 13-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen • A. Gerssen (Arjen) The analysis of lipophilic marine toxins. Development of an alternative method. 15-10-2010, 13:30 hrs, Wageningen • M.M. Jore (Matthijs) CRISPR-mediated antiviral defence in prokaryotes. 20-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen • D.M.M. Kleinegris (Dorinde) Milking of microalgae revisited. 29-10-2010, 16:00 hrs, Wageningen

•	Advanced Course on Applied Genomics of Industrial Fermentation - 4th edition 11 - 15 October 2010, Wageningen
•	VLAG PhD week - 24th edition 25 - 28 October 2010 Note: the 24th edition is fully booked, see website for dates 25th edition.
•	Annual NUTRIM Symposium 2010 4 November 2010, Maastricht Note: information will follow on NUTRIM site
•	Master class Public health interventions in real-life settings: the AGORA experience 8 - 10 November 2010, Wageningen
•	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
•	Genetics and physiology of food-associated microorganisms - 4th edition 22 - 24 November 2010, Wageningen
•	Master Class Health Food Innovation: Research, Development and Claim Substantiation 25 November and 2 December 2010, Maastricht University & UM Campus Venlo Note: NUTRIM/VLAG (PhD)Students can participate for free
•	Systems biology course: Statistics of ~omics data analysis - 5th edition 13 - 17 December 2010, Wageningen

VENI grants 2 VENI grants by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for 2 former VLAG/NUTRIM PhD-students.
•	Vera Schrauwen-Hinderling (UM-Human Biology) has been awarded a Veni grant for her research "Hepatic steatosis: imaging the fate of fat".
•	Johan Jocken (UM-Human Biology) has been awarded a Veni grant for his research 'Storing Up trouble: towards a better understanding of fat breakdown in the obese insulin resistant state'.

Truus van Woudenbergh, Human Nutrition, received the Youg Investigator's Award at the 28th International Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition in Oslo, July 2010. She was awarded for her research on "Diet and risk of type 2 diabetes".

•	Scientific Writing - 7 October (visit Language Services)
•	Communication with the Media and the General Public - 7 October (visit WGS)
•	Career Perspectives - 19 October (visit WGS)
•	Techniques for Writing and Presenting a Scientific Paper - 19 October (visit WGS)
•	Interpersonal Communication for PhD students - 26 October (visit WGS)
•	Project- and Time Management - 2 November (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)

•	Professional in supervision - 20 October (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)
•	Self-assembly of artificial proteins: kinetic aspects Colloqium organised by the laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science Speaker: Xavier Beaudoux 10 September 2010, 16:00 hrs, Ab van der Linde room, Building 316, Dreijenplein 6, Wageningen
•	Dietary lysine and the importance of processing of food- and feedstuffs Seminar organised by Wageningen University and Graduate School WIAS on the occasion of the public defense of the PhD thesis "Bioavailability of lysine in heat-treated foods and feedstuffs" by Mr. Shane Rutherfurd. 28 September, 2010, Hof van Wageningen, Wageningen (information and registration)
•	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)
•	Design of Experiments Advanced Statistics course organised by the Graduate School WIAS. 8 - 10 December 2010 (visit WIAS)