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Hands-on training on Whole Genome Sequencing analysis of microbial pesticides for Environmental Risk Assessment – Brussels 9 October 2026
RATION is organizing the third training workshop with a focus on hand-on training on the the WGS platform that has been developed in the frame of the project. The WGS pipeline developed could analyse the genomes of bacteria and fungi used as plant protection products and provide outputs that could be used as a first tier to direct testing strategy for hazard assesment. The workshop will be organized at the 9th of October 2026, a day after the final dissemination event of RATION, in the Palace of the Academies, Room Bordet, Rue Ducale 1 / Hertogstraat 1, 1000 Brussels. Our trainers will be
- Dr Brader Gunter, Austrian Institute of Technology
- Dr Joao Saraiva, UFZ, Leipzig
- Dr Sotirios Vasileiadis and Sotirina Makri, University of Thessaly, Greece
- Valerian Lupo, UC Louvain, Belgium
There are 20 slots available for this training so please register here.
The Final Dissemination Event of RATION – Brussels, 8 October 2026
The final dissemination event of RATION will be held in Brussels, at October 8, 2026 in the Palace of the Academies, Auditorium Albert II. The event will be open to scientists from academia, regulatory bodies, industry, NGOs and other stakeholders dealing with the development and use of low-risk pesticides of biological origin. The researchers of RATION will present the new Risk Assessment scheme developed for low-risk pesticides of biological origin along with tools and methods to support their implementation. The agenda of the event is available here.
If you are interested in participating please register here
RATION Summer School, Larissa 25-29 May 2026
The summer school of RATION was organized by the University of Thessaly in Larissa, Greece on the week 25 to 29 May 2026. The school was attended by 15 people which had the opportunity to hear and get training on the new tools developed by RATION on the risk assessment of microbials, botanicals, pheromones and ds-RNA.
The Webinar Series of RATION is launched
The project RATION is organizing a webinar series where the results of the project will be presented to the members of the stakeholders’ forum and openly to other scientists from regulatory bodies, industries, consultants and academia. The webinars will be organized every 15 days at 13.00 pm and will involve presentation of the results by one of the Principal Investigators of the project followed by Q/A session. The webinars will be recorded and uploaded in the Stakeholder Forum portal where people could watch them.
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Summer School RATION project – 25-29 May, 2026, Greece
RATION is organizing a summer school in Larissa, Greece on the 25 to 29th of May, 2026. The summer school offers training on novel risk assessment approaches that are available and will benchmark risk assessment of low-risk pesticides in the next 20 years while it will further provide hands-on training on tools developed in the frame of the project RATION to support risk assessment of microbial and ds-RNA pesticides. There is not registration fee. The attendees will have to cover their own travel and accomodation costs. The program of the School and further details could be found in the flyer attached.
Continue ReadingRATION Training Workshop on the Whole Genome Sequencing Tool
The first training workshop of RATION on the Whole Genome Sequencing toll developed by our researchers was held in Paris with the participation of 26 trainees. Joao Saraiva, Gunter Brader, Sotirios Vasileiadis, Valerian Lupo and Stavroula Makri along with Dimitrios Karpouzas, coordinator of RATION, presented the tool, its inputs and outputs, its capacities and how the results could be interpreted in a risk assessment context. The tool can be reached and used in the following https://agrostis.gr/ration-ra-gui
Continue ReadingFirst RATION Training Event on Whole Genome Sequencing of Microbials – 23 February 2026, Paris, France
RATION announces the launch of the first training workshop on the Whole Genome Sequencing tool developed for microbial pesticides. The tool will provide novel directions and outputs that are directly relevant for the risk assessment of microbial pesticides based on bacteria and fungi. The workshop will be organized in person in Paris on Monday 23rd of February 2026. There is a limited number of places (maximum 40) so you will need to register to secure a position. The agend of the workshop can be found below.
Continue ReadingThe 3rd Annual Meeting of RATION in Heraklion, Crete 2025
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the RATION project was held in Heraklion, Crete at 21-23rd of October in the premises of Foundation of Research and Technology. The partners discussed all new findings and how these will fit into the new Risk Assessment scheme for microbials, botanicals, semiochemicals and ds-RNA pesticides that RATION members are working on
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