CEPLAS-News

Next-gen scientists meet cutting-edge innovation in vegetable seed development. [18/06/2025]

CEPLAS member and MPI Director Miltos Tsiantis receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his project CLONAL. [17/06/2025]

In our new Planter's Punch PhD student Laura Merx explains in a podcast how bacteria can help us feed the world. [28/05/2025]

CEPLAS III proposal "SMART Plants in Dynamic Environments" successful in Excellence Strategy. [23/05/2025]

The 2nd TRANSPLANT Day focussing on "Supporting Entrepreneurial Scientists and Science-Based Startups" took place in Cologne [22/05/2025]

CEPLAS Steering Committee member Miltos Tsiantis is among the over 90 scientists from around the world who have been elected as the newest Fellows of… [20/05/2025]

CEPLAS members Stanislav Kopriva (UoC) and Tonni Grube Andersen (MPIPZ) identified several plant growth promoting volatiles. [08/05/2025]

Coordinated by Rüdiger Simon, researchers discovered the signaling pathway that regulates the control of meristems in barley. [07/05/2025]

Götz Hensel and Susanne Vollmer presented current developments in the use of molecular gene editing tools in plants. [06/05/2025]

Korbinian Schneeberger and Craig Dent (both MPIPZ) pieced together the genetic makeup of European potatoes and published the results in Nature. [24/04/2025]

CEPLAS postdoctoral researcher Craig Dent (MPIPZ) reveals in a illustrative comic that potato DNA is at the same time diverse and not diverse. [23/04/2025]

Martin Lercher’s group (HHU), together with collaborators from Linköping University, has discovered that bacterial genes are positioned by function. [14/04/2025]

CEPLAS PhD Sabrina Egli from Guido Grossmann's lab inspired 8 girls with luminous bacteria. [10/04/2025]

Together with other researchers CEPLAS academic expert Parisa Kakanj has uncovered a mechanism to protect and repair mitochondria. [09/04/2025]

CEPLAS members participated at the Crop Innovation & Business conference and interacted with experts from the agri-tech and agri-food community. [08/04/2025]

Oliver Ebenhöh and Andreas Weber (both HHU), together with researchers from the University of Groningen, have published a paper in Science Advances. [26/03/2025]

CEPLAS member Stanislav Kopriva (UoC) reveals in an interview which personality he would like to meet. [25/03/2025]

CEPLAS Graduate students Pia Saake and Daniel Moser (both UoC) defended their PhD thesis. [25/03/2025]

CEPLAS member Tonni Grube Andersen (MPIPZ) and his team have uncovered an important role of the Casparian strip. [24/03/2025]

More than 60 participants followed two inspiring presentations and an interactive panel discussion at the first TRANSPLANT Day. [18/03/2025]

Two students won first prize in the Biology section of the Bonn-Köln Jugend Forscht Regionalwettbewerb for their project in Alga Zuccaro's lab. [27/02/2025]

Büşra Elkatmış has been selected as one of 100 early-career women researchers for the 2025 DWIH San Franscisco Women in Entrepreneurship program [25/02/2025]

In a new issue of the Planter's Punch, CEPLAS doctoral researcher Amelie Kok (MPIPZ) provides insights into the book of life, the DNA. [25/02/2025]

The CEPLAS member (MPIPZ) received the prize at the Conference Molecular Biology of Plants 2025 for his outstanding social media contributions. [24/02/2025]