Mini-Symposium on Phosphate Bio-availability

On the occasion of the PhD defense of Debby van Rotterdam-Los a mini-symposium on 'Phosphate bio-availability' is organised in the morning of February 26. Speakers are Prof. Roel Merckx (Belgium), Prof. Emmanuel Frossard (Switzerland) and Dr. Frederic Gerard (France). Everyone who is interested can join the symposium and/or the PhD defence ceremony. 

Programme

10.00 - 12.15 hrs (Atlas 2, building 104, Wageningen Campus)

The never ending story of P-availability
(Prof. R. Merckx, Belgium)

Soil properties and phosphate isotopic exchangeability in temperate soils

(Prof. E. Frossard, Switzerland)

A mechanistic model for understanding root-induced chemical changes of phosphorus availability in the rhizosphere and the effect on P-biovailability
(Dr. F. Gérard, France)

13.30 - 15.30 hrs (Aula Wageningen University, Generaal Foulkesweg 1a, Wageningen)

PhD defense Debby van Rotterdam-Los
'The potential of soils to supply phosphorus and potassium - processes and predictions -'