Webinar on the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Fellowship

 

 

17th April 2026 via Teleconference at 11:00 CET

 

 

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Purpose and Registration

 

As part of our celebrations for the EPPO 75th anniversary we are holding a commemorative webinar to celebrate the success of the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Plant Health Fellowship. The Fellowship started in 2020 with the purpose of enabling plant health professionals from the EPPO region to gain international working experience in plant health in another country or organisation through a secondment.

 

The webinar will feature short talks from past fellows on their experiences, as well as from a current fellow on their plans. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. We encourage anyone who wishes to apply to the 2026 call for the fellowship to attend. 

 

The webinar will be held online via Zoom teleconference. The webinar will be recorded and made available on our youtube channel shortly afterwards. Spaces are reserved for the first 300 attendees. 

 

We plan to launch the 2026 call for applicants following the Webinar. 

 

PLEASE REGISTER using this link. 

 

 

Presentations

The webinar will include an overview of the fellowship and presentations from past and current EPPO Jens-Georg Unger fellows. There will be an opportunity for questions after each presentation. 

 

Welcome and overview of the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Fellowship

EPPO Secretariat

 

A presentation on the fellowship, including details on how to apply for the 2026 fellowship, will be given. 
EPPO Jens-Georg Unger 2024 Fellow

Mr Félix Morán Villamizar (IVIA, Valencia, Spain)

 

He will present his experience on the fellowship where he worked on the evaluation and application of High-Throughput Sequencing techniques in diagnostics: a comparative study of Oxford Nanopore and Illumina technologies at the Plant Health Laboratory, ANSES, Angers, France. 
EPPO Jens-Georg Unger 2023 Fellow

Ms Gular Bayramova (Azerbaijan Food Safety Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan)

 

She will present her experience on the fellowship where she worked on seed transmission of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in pepper and tomato seeds at the Leibniz İnstitute DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany. 
EPPO Jens-Georg Unger 2022 Fellow

Ms Magdalena Kacprzyk (Department of Forest Ecosystems Protection, University of Agriculture, Krakow, PL) 

 

She will present her experience on the fellowship where she studied the prevention and control strategy implemented by Portugal against the pine wood nematode since its detection in 1999 at the Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, Lisboa, Portugal. 
EPPO Jens-Georg Unger 2025 Fellow

Ms Songül Erken Meral (Black Sea Agricultural Research Institute, Türkiye)

 

She will present her plans for her upcoming fellowship, where she plans to work on the development and application of molecular diagnostic methods for regulated and emerging bacterial pathogens (Xylella fastdiosa, Pseudomonas syringae pv. actnidiae) at the Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal.
   

 

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