CEPLAS-News

We welcome the new doctoral students of the 2021 class, who have started last October. We introduce all of them in short profiles. [11/01/2022]

Position as an Field trial technician at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf available. [11/01/2022]

Niklas Gawenda (HHU) reveals in his Planter's Punch why cell walls play a significant role in biofuel production. [21/12/2021]

Position as an CEPLAS student assistant (f/m/d) at the University of Cologne available. [20/12/2021]

The CEPLAS Graduate Class 2021 participated in the one-week course in Oeiras at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC). [20/12/2021]

Position as an CEPLAS academic expert in data science at the University of Cologne available. [14/12/2021]

This year's GPZ conference (Breeding plants for tomorrow’s world – challenges and solutions) takes place at the HHU from March 15th to 17th. [14/12/2021]

Position as a bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher in the field of plant-microbe interactions at the University of Cologne available. [09/12/2021]

In collaboration with a team of Utrecht University CEPLAS member Bart Thomma published a paper about plant microbiome-manipulating effectors. [06/12/2021]

The application period for the CEPLAS Graduate School was extended and is now on December 12th, 2021. [30/11/2021]

A new paper published by CEPLAS member Benjamin Stich and his team (HHU) uncovers a new method to identify highly recombinogenic genotypes. [24/11/2021]

Daniel Moser (UoC) describes in a new issue of the Planter's Punch how bacteria might be able to trick the plant. [22/11/2021]

Maria von Korff Schmising and former CEPLAS member Jinshun Zhong published a study in the Journal The Plant Cell. [18/11/2021]

Congratulations to Wolf Frommer, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Bart Thomma, Björn Usadel and former member Alice McHardy! [17/11/2021]

Position as a Biological technical assistant/ Agricultural technical assistant at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf available. [17/11/2021]

CEPLAS members reported on their research and took the opportunity for an exchange with other researchers on the two-day symposium. [16/11/2021]

Alga Zuccaro coordinates the 24 working groups who have been granted funding from the DFG for the second phase of the SPP. [03/11/2021]

Around 70 interested participants in the online discussion with Urs Niggli, Petra Kluger and Matias Zurbriggen. [01/11/2021]

Maria von Korff and Rüdiger Simon are part of the new DFG research group 'Cereal Stem Cell Systems'. [27/10/2021]

New research published by Rüdiger Simon´s team in eLife now uncovers how secreted peptides regulate meristem size and shape. [22/10/2021]

A new article in PLOS Biology by the group of CEPLAS member Martin Lercher shows how an enzyme's affinity for its substrate can be predicted. [20/10/2021]

Borjana Arsova from the Root Dynamics Group (FZJ) was interviewed in the ZDF documentary Terra X. [18/10/2021]

CEPLAS member Anna Matuszyńska received the nomination to become a W1 professor in Computational Live Sciences at RWTH Aachen. [18/10/2021]

In an online event a sustainable agriculture without animal farming and alternatives for a meat production with animals will be discussed. [15/10/2021]