21st of June 2010
Kirsten Leiss wins Jan Ritzema Bos award
On June 16, Kirsten Leiss of Leiden University has won the second Jan Ritzema Bos Award. This award is established by the Royal Netherlands Society of Plant Pathology (KNPV) to honor het best presentation during the KNPV spring meeting ‘An eco-metabolic approach to study host plant resistance’ was the best, because scientific research was explained clearly to a broad audience. Leiss works at the department Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry of the Institute of Biology. A monetary prize of thousand Euros comes with the award.
The KNPV aims to stimulate the cooperation between crop protection research, education, consultancy, policy making and industry. To achieve this, the society organizes meetings, sponsors projects, and issues – already for forty years – the national journal ‘Gewasbescherming’. The KNPV specifically wants to attract young people to the field of crop protection, including international students.
Jan Ritzema Bos
Jan Ritzema Bos (1850-1928) is one of the persons who founded the KNPV in 1891 en was society president for many years He was editor of the ‘Tijdschrift over Plantenziekten’, which later became the European Journal of Plant Pathology, and contributed to this journal with several hundreds of articles. Next to that he was director of the Phytopathological Laboratory Willie Commelin Scholten in Amsterdam and director of the Plant Protection Service. He was professor at the University of Amsterdam and later in Wageningen. He can be regarded as founder of plant pathology in the Netherlands and therefore he is honored by the award that bears his name.
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