Girls' Day 2023 in CEPLAS lab
At this year's Girls' Day, Ilka Axmann and her team gave female students insights into scientific work. [28/04/2023]
New CEPLAS ECR representatives
Laura Merx and Susanne Vollmer have been elected as PhD representatives, Laura Armbruster and Craig Dent as postdoc representatives. [25/04/2023]
How plants get sick
In the frame of the "Kölner Kinderuni" CEPLAS member Isabel Saur explained children how plant diseases can be controlled in the future. [24/04/2023]
CEPLAS at CropIB in Amsterdam
CEPLAS members participated at the Crop Innovation & Business conference and interacted with experts from the agri-tech and agri-food community. [20/04/2023]
Open position
New position as a Postdoc (f/m/d) at the Institute of Population Genetics at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf available. [20/04/2023]
CEPLAS members in New York and Washington
Andreas Weber, Stanislav Kopriva and Svenja Augustin participated in a series of events in the US to present CEPLAS and the initiative Plant ACT!. [04/04/2023]
CEPLAS Symposium 2023 – 10 years CEPLAS
CEPLAS celebrated its 10th anniversary during a two-day symposium at the Flora in Cologne. [31/03/2023]
Communicating Science by writing columns
CEPLAS member Petra Bauer (HHU) starts writing regularly columns in the Rheinische Post to explain Science from her perspective. [30/03/2023]
An imaginary journey into a plant
The new Planter's Punch from the CEPLAS doctoral researcher Tobias Pfennig is a video about the mechanisms of Photosynthesis. [24/03/2023]
WDR at the Institute of Plant Genetics
A team from the children's and youth television program "Neuneinhalb" produced an episode with CEPLAS Alumna Agatha Walla about water scarcity. [20/03/2023]
Presentation of CEPLAS IPK initiative
The CEPLAS IPK initiative TransCend will be presented at the Plant 2030 status seminar [20/03/2023]
Postdoc Onboarding
17 Postdocs, who became a member of the CEPLAS Postdoc Program within this or last year, met at HHU Düsseldorf on March 8 for an onboarding meeting. [13/03/2023]
First Planter's Punch as a podcast
CEPLAS doctoral student Ilyse Putz (HHU) talks about her research with perennial grains and their main poster children. [28/02/2023]
Apply now!
The call for our CEPLAS research internships 2023 is now open!! [21/02/2023]
NRW Minister of Science at CEPLAS
CEPLAS members informed the Minister Ina Brandes about the Excellence Cluster and the current research projects. [13/02/2023]
School class visited CEPLAS lab
As a winner of the Carbon Challenge 2022 students of the Geschwister Scholl Gymnasium Düsseldorf performed experiments on photosynthesis. [06/02/2023]
Congratulations to Stéphane Hacquard!
CEPLAS researcher Stéphane Hacquard (MPIPZ) receives highly renowned ERC Consolidator Grant. [31/01/2023]
Apply for Soapbox Science 2023
The local event Soapbox Science Rheinland 2023 will take place on August 5th in Düsseldorf. Applications are open until February 28th. [26/01/2023]
Congratulations!
CEPLAS Graduate School member Priyamedha Sengupta successfully defended her PhD thesis! I [26/01/2023]
How a cowboy hat can convince of botany
Leonie Weber (UoC) tells us in a new issue of CEPLAS Faces how a lecturer with a cowboy hat convinced her to study Botany. [25/01/2023]
On and off: The "molecular switches" of iron allocation
Check out our new Planter's Punch by Mary Ngigi on iron allocation [23/01/2023]
New faculty position within CEPLAS
Ute Armbruster was appointed to the W2 position on "Molecular photosynthesis" at HHU (photo: HHU/ Steffen Köhler). [11/01/2023]
Guided tour for guest auditors
Markus Stetter (UoC) presented the CEPLAS research to guest auditors during a guided tour at the Biocenter in Cologne. [02/01/2023]
CEPLAS Equal Opportunity Office Report 2023
CEPLAS issues an overview of its Equal Opportunity and Diversity measures and updates internal statistics. [23/12/2022]