CEPLAS-News

Open positions 

Currently we have several open positions! [11/08/2018]

European Court of Justice passed judgement on classification of genome edited plants 

"From a scientific view, the judgement does not make sense!" [27/07/2018]

Congratulations to Dr. Alfredo Mari! 

CEPLAS Graduate School member Alfredo successfully defended his PhD thesis "Mutualistic Interactions between pathogenic and non pathogenic protists in… [26/07/2018]

Registration deadline extended! 

You can still register until August 15 for the 1st Cologne Conference on Food for Future taking place from 05.–07. September 2018 in Cologne. [20/07/2018]

Opening of the new research building "Center for Synthetic Life Sciences" 

The HHU building will house the new CEPLAS groups and the technology facilities of the Center for Biological and Medical Research (BMFZ) [16/07/2018]

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their plant hosts: old friends that go way back 

Great publication by CEPLAS members Garrido-Oter, Nakano, McHardy, Schulze-Lefert and others [12/07/2018]

Interactive CEPLAS Women in Plant Sciences Day 2018 

A CEPLAS career and networking event for female scientists [12/07/2018]

Open positions 

Currently we have several open positions [12/07/2018]

Successful CEPLAS Career Speed Dating 

Lively discussions at this year's CEPLAS Career Speed Dating [03/07/2018]

Active exchange with guests from Corteva AgriscienceTM 

CEPLAS course with employees from a globally acting agriscience company [28/06/2018]

Multi-million project with the participation of CEPLAS scientists approved. 

The group of Matias Zurbriggen receives € 820.000 within the framework of the EU-funded project "CyGenTiG - Cybergenetic tissue engineering". [20/06/2018]

CEPLAS Alumni Peter Lundquist starts as Assistant Professor at Michigan State University 

Congratulations to Peter who will be joining the Plant Resilience Institute. [11/06/2018]

Excursion LemnaTec

A visit to the company, which constructed the largest agricultural phenotyping robot in the world. 

10 CEPLAS Members joined an excursion to LemnaTec, a company specialised on plant phenotyping equipment. [08/06/2018]

Diatomes

Who, besides the plant, is also carrying out Photosynthesis in the leaf? 

Find out in our new issue of Planter's Punch. [31/05/2018]

Open position 

Internship / Master's Project at Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research [25/05/2018]

CEPLAS Early Career Researchers at Bio.NRW academy 

On May 15, four of our postdocs participated in the Bio.NRW academy at the FZJ [18/05/2018]

Congratulations to Dr. Suraj Sharma 

CEPLAS Graduate School member Suraj successfully defended his PhD thesis "Mathematical models of glucosinolate metabolism in plants" [16/05/2018]

Open positions 

PhD student (m/f) Bioinformatics and Research Assistant at the Institute for Plant Quantitative Genetics and Genomics [08/05/2018]

PEAC Antrag

New research building for plant sciences at HHU 

The German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) recommended the funding of the "Plant Environmental Adaptation Center (PEAC)" [26/04/2018]

Berkley Walker

CEPLAS Alumni Berkley Walker starts as assistant professor at MSU 

Congratulations to CEPLAS Alumni Berkley Walker who starts as assistant professor at Michigan State University. [19/04/2018]

Planter's Punch Antonella Succurro

Understanding metabolic interactions in plant root associated bacterial communities 

Watch a great video about this old-fashioned love story in our new Planter's Punch! [17/04/2018]

English version CEPLAS image movie

English version of the CEPLAS movie out now! 

Watch English version here [10/04/2018]

New paper in "Cell" by CEPLAS PI Jürgen Zeier 

Flavin Monooxygenase-Generated N-Hydroxypipecolic Acid Is a Critical Element of Plant Systemic Immunity [26/03/2018]

Comparison of roots

CEPLAS@School 

Start of the new "Research and Education" module for pupils and student teachers [20/03/2018]