Education by PLANTMETALS

Teaching material The following table is meant to host all teaching materials of traning schools, etc. approved by the authors for release on this website. It is only for personal use, and other use needs copyright approval!
Date	Description
31 October 2023	10 min video with shots from our labs, from synchrotrons and outside locations, explaining the importance, methods and output of our research. It is an update of the 7min video from 2022 with added footage from field work and laboratories provided by our members, and was entirely re-cut and re-assembled for optimised matching of explanations with video material. It is currently available at our YouTube channel and you can download the original full-resolution mp4 file here for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!): Czech English
31 October 2023	Roll-ups and poster illustrating the aims and output of the PLANTMETALS COST Action: zip folder for download
31 October 2023	Brochure for children: key aim is to raise awareness about plants in kids in primary school. To convey its message, it uses a strong narrative and pictures. It has been produced in the following languages, please click on the links to download a high-resolution pdf file for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!). The original version is the English one, the others are translations made by our members as written in the editorial of each version. Albanian Azerbaijani Bosnian Chinese Croatian Czech English (official main version) French German Hindi Italian Polish Portuguese Romanian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Turkish Urdu
31 October 2022	Videos explaining the PLANTMETALS COST Action to the general public, suitable for introducing the Action to potential new members and stakeholders. Two versions are available by download from the following links: 1) A 3min "talking head" video that explains in an easy way why trace metals are both, required and toxic, for plants and humans. It t is aimed at YouTube and social media. It is currently available at our YouTube channel and you can download the original full-resolution mp4 file HERE for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!) 2) 7 min video with shots from our labs, from synchrotrons and outside locations, explaining the importance, methods and output of our research. It is currently available at our YouTube channel and you can download the original full-resolution mp4 file HERE for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!)
26 October 2021	Flyer explaining the PLANTMETALS COST Action to the general public, suitable for introducing the Action to potential new members and stakeholders. Printed copies are available at from the MC members of each member country. Language variants for download and self-printing: Croatian Czech Dutch English French German Greek Italian Spanish Turkish

Press releases The following table is meant to host all press releases of the Action, approved by the authors for release on this website. Unless mentioned in the description of the individual item, re-distribution is permitted with acknowledgement of the authors&source.
Date	Description
22 October 2020	Press release of the host institution introducing the PLANTMETALS Action (in English and Czech)
26 October 2020	Broadcast of the South Bohemian TV about the COST Action PLANTMETALS (in Czech)
30 October 2020	Press release of the Czech Academy of Sciences introducing the PLANTMETALS Action (in Czech)
3 December 2020	Press release of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum introducing the PLANTMETALS Action (in German)
27 August 2021	Press release of the host institution about the kick-off meeting of the Action
Protocols, Information for stakeholders, etc The following table is meant to host all protocols published by the Action as instructions to members and the public e.g. for improving handling of scientific methods of agricultural practices. They are approved by the authors for release on this website. Unless mentioned in the description of the individual item, re-distribution is permitted with acknowledgement of the authors&source except for methods+protocols published in scientific books+journals as they are subject to copyright of the publisher.
Date	Description
2020	Method for analysing trace metal distribution in plant tissues via lab-based µXRF imaging
2019	Method for analysing binding of metals to proteins and low MW ligands via metal-free HPLC (SEC and AEC) coupled to sector-field ICP-MS
2019	Method for analysing effects of metal stress on photosynthetic light reactions by direct fast imaging of chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics

Advice to better direct researchers to the proper metallomics facilities and methods The following table shows people within this Action whom you may contact for getting advice on access to metallomics facilities within our network or to which members of our network have close contact.
Person, with link to personal or COST website for contact details	Description of the facility or methods on which this person can give advice
Hendrik Küpper	- X-ray spectroscopy: In-house µXRF (2D), µXRF and µXAS tomography and bulk XAS at European synchrotron faclilities (DESY, Diamond, ESRF) - Analysing the binding of metals to proteins and low MW ligands via HPLC (AEC, HIC, SEC) coupled online to ICP-MS
Gerald Falkenberg	Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy imaging at DESY, P06: micro-XRF and micro-XANES mapping and tomography beamline manager and project review panel secretary at P06 (scanning imaging beamline), can coordinate help on questions for access to bulk EXAFS beamlines P64/P64
Geraldine Sarret	Contact for X-ray spectroscopy and imaging, incl sample preparation and sample environments: bulk XAS, µXRF-µXAS, at European synchrotron faclilities (Soleil and ESRF)
Matthias Wiggenhauser	Contact for metal isotope applications including tracer techniques for radioisotopes (e.g., ¹⁰⁹Cd, ⁶⁵Zn) and enriched stable isotopes (e.g., ¹¹¹Cd, ⁶⁷Zn) to trace metal sources in plants and soil-fertilizer-plant systems using multicollector ICP-MS.