KWS Biotech Visit - Einbeck, DE

24 November 2017

Prof. Poirier Yves, University of Lausanne

Collaborators of KWC Einbeck

Students will have one day visit to KWC Company in Einbeck, Germany.

This activity is part of a series aimed at introducing to CUSO members the various professional avenues available to students in plant molecular biology.
Following a visit at Syngenta (Stein, Switzerland) in 2013, the Agroscope (Changins, Switzerland) in 2014, and at the plant biotech company Keygene (Wageningen, the Netherlands) in 2016, a visit will be organized on November 24, 2017, to the world headquarter of the plant breeding company KWS, located in Einbeck, approximately 1 hour south of Hannover, Germany.
KWS is a major international company that uses traditional and state-of-the-art molecular breeding technologies and biotechnology to supply crop varieties (sugarbeet, corn and cereal seeds as well as rapeseed and sunflowers) with improved yields and resistances to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. KWS is employing numerous researchers with experience in plant molecular biology. A former UNIL postdoc is now working at KWS and will be part of the team welcoming us at KWS.

KWS at a glance

KWC headquarters, 37574 Einbeck, Germany

Detailed program and schedule will follow

!! IMPORTANT: THE PARTICIPANT MUST ARRIVE IN HANNOVER OR EINBECK THE EVENING BEFORE, NOVEMBER 23, 2017 !!

Participants will be reimbursed for:

Accomodation
- 1 night for a MAXIMUM of 90 CHF for the Night+Breakfast+taxes

IMPORTANT: THE PARTICIPANT MUST ARRIVE IN HANNOVER OR EINBECK THE EVENING BEFORE, NOVEMBER 23, 2017.

Flights, Trains and Transports
- Flight Geneva or Zurich-Hannover and return + Train and Transports Hannover-Einbeck and return
for a MAXIMUM of 300 CHF

Others
- Train CH from your institution to Geneva or Zurich airport and return, price of FFS ticket, 2nd class, half-fare
- 2 meals up to 25CHF/meal

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BOOKING AND PAYMENT OF YOUR TRAVEL TICKETS AND ACCOMODATION. NO REIMBURSEMENT IN CASE OF CANCELLATION. NO REIMBURSEMENT WITHOUT BOARDING PASSES.

Only people attending the visit will be reimbursed. Reimbursement form attached with original tickets has to be sent to the MPS coordinator Zoia Debora at University of Lausanne, Department of Molecular Plant Biology, Biophore - quartier UNIL-Sorge, 1015 Lausanne. In case of questions please contact Debora Zoia at plants[@]cuso.ch

Registration will open on Monday June 12 at 9h00

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