Title: 10th Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Southeast European Countries

Organizers:

Association for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Southeast European Countries (AMAPSEEC)

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia

Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Croatia

Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CroP-BioDiv), Zagreb, Croatia

President of the Organizing Committee: Marija Jug-Dujaković, PhD., Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Croatia

President of the Scientific Committee: Professor Zlatko Šatović, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia / CoE CroP-BioDiv

Book of Abstracts: Carović-Stanko, K., Grdiša, M. (Eds.) (2018). 10th CMAPSEEC: Book ot Abstracts, Split, Croatia, pp. 214

Time: May 20-24, 2018

Location: Hotel President, Split, Croatia

Eight PhD students working at the CoE CroP-BioDiv started the Postgraduate Docotral studies of Agricultural Sciences [http://www.agr.unizg.hr/en/category/agricultural_sciences/204]

organized at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture (Zoe Adrijanić, Višeslav Glavinović, Ana Nimac, Ivana Plavšin, Bruno Rajković, Petra Štambuk, Ante Turudić, Zoran Užila).

Time: May 7th, 2018

Location: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture

Prof. dr. sc. Zlatko Šatović visited dr. sc. Carlotu Vaz Patto, Head of PlantX at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Professor Šatović and Dr Vaz Patto signed the Letter of Agreement with the intention of scientific collaboration in the framework of the project KK.01.1.1.01.0005 Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding led by CoE CroP-BioDiv that will include the exchange of plant material, phenotyping and genotyping of common bean accessions as well as statistical analysis of molecular and agronomic data as anticipated by the project proposal within the Project Element 7. Common bean led by lead by Dr Klaudija Carović-Stanko as well as Project Element PM Project Management, Activity 2. Data Storage and Analysis. During his stay at ITQB Professor Zlatko Šatović gave lectures on Modern Strategies in Plant Breeding for the students of the Plants for Life.

Time: 04. i 05. travnja 2018.

Location: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal