CEPLAS-News
CEPLAS speaker at Chancentalk at the BMBF
Maria von Korff Schmising and IPK researcher Robert Hoffie talked about their research and new genomic techniques at the Federal Ministry of Education… [31/08/2023]
Planter's Punch about the language of fungi
The new Planter's Punch from postdoctoral researcher Concetta De Quattro (UoC) is about the regulation of fungal effector genes. [29/08/2023]
FastFungiFinder wins HHU idea competition
Three students of the study program QuantBio won the first prize in the category "students" and spoke about their innovative idea in an interview. [25/08/2023]
New publication about PSII assembly
Together with a research team CEPLAS member Ute Armbruster (HHU) discovered the first eukaryote-specific factor of PSII assembly. [24/08/2023]
CEPLAS member receives prestigious Future Science Prize
Jijie Chai (MPIPZ) has been awarded the Future Science Prize together with Jian-Min Zhou for their work an plant resistosomes. [18/08/2023]
Open position
Position of a W3 professorship for Crop Biology at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf available. [17/08/2023]
Two CEPLAS members at the Digital Demo Day
Ilka Axmann and Markus Kollmann (both HHU) present their research and technologies at the Digital Demo Day 2023 in Düsseldorf. [15/08/2023]
Funding for "Urban Gardening"
CEPLAS member Petra Bauer (HHU) was successful with her proposal in the program "Bügeruniversität in der Lehre" for the next two semesters. [14/08/2023]
Soapbox Science in Düsseldorf
Eleven enthusiastic female researchers presented their work in the centre of Düsseldorf. [07/08/2023]
New publication about fungal pathogens
A group of scientists led by CEPLAS members Paul Schulze-Lefert and Jijie Chai (both MPIPZ) published a new paper in the Journal PNAS. [03/08/2023]
Open position
Open position as a student assistant (f/m/d) at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne available. [02/08/2023]
CEPLAS Faces with Paul Schulze-Lefert
In an interview CEPLAS member Paul Schulze-Lefert (MPIPZ Cologne) reveals what advice he would give to scientists who want to found a start-up. [26/07/2023]
Open position
New position as a postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d) in Computational Biology at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne available. [26/07/2023]
When 1 plus 1 is not always 2
In the new Planter's Punch the CEPLAS doctoral researcher Nhu Tran (UoC) describes the components of genetic variation with illustrative pictures. [19/07/2023]
New publications
In two new papers CEPLAS member Martin Lercher and his team (HHU) describe how to predict enzymatic reactions using AI methods. [19/07/2023]
Open statement
on the proposal of the EU Commission on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed [05/07/2023]
New Publication
The "Healthy Crops" research consortium led by CEPLAS member Wolf Frommer reports on disease-resistant rice varieties in the scientific journal eLife. [29/06/2023]
New Planter's Punch
The postdoc Marjorie Guichard (HHU) explains in an illustrative comic how and why she tricks proteins with sticky glitters. [23/06/2023]
Open position
New position as a Scientific Research Associate in Genome Editing in Barley (f/m/d) at the Institute of Plant Genetics at HHU Düsseldorf available. [20/06/2023]
TRANSCEND introduced in Berlin
CEPLAS and IPK have established a new alliance for plant sciences under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. [07/06/2023]
CEPLAS member appointed NGIN Ambassador
The doctoral researcher Abdulkabir Abdulmalik (HHU) has been appointed Ambassador of NGIN. In an interview he speaks about his new position. [01/06/2023]
Podcast with Markus Stetter
In the "Computomics" podcast "The domestication of Amaranth or how wild plants become crops", Markus Stetter (UoC) speaks about his research. [01/06/2023]
A story of luminous jellyfish and skyscraping trees
In a new issue of the Planter's Punch CEPLAS doctoral researcher Jona Obinna Ejike explains why the luminous jellyfish is important for his research. [31/05/2023]
New CEPLAS Executive Board
During the General Assembly, Maria von Korff Schmising was announced as the new CEPLAS speaker and Bart Thomma as the deputy speaker. [30/05/2023]