
Open Position
Open position as Student Assistant at the Botanical Institute, Biocenter Cologne. [18/06/2020]

Open Position
New position as a Postdoctoral Researcher available at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne. [15/06/2020]

8000 kilometres for a plant
In CEPLAS Faces Shizue Matsubara tells us why she drove from the east to the west coast of Australia to find a plant. [10/06/2020]

New Planter's Punch about Synthetic Biology
Postdoctoral researcher Uriel Urquiza brings Synthetic Biology in a video to life. [28/05/2020]

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Prof. Dr. Bart Thomma
Great success for CEPLAS! [19/05/2020]

Björn Usadel about his start at HHU
In CEPLAS Faces Björn Usadel tells about his research and his favorite plant. [14/05/2020]

Two new publications
New publications by the group of Maria von Korff Schmising. [08/05/2020]

Third issue of CEPLAS Faces
Rachel Denley Bowers talks about her mystery plant and what she would like to research in space. [27/04/2020]

Planter's Punch offers exciting insights in a video
In an illustrative video the Institute of Quantitative and Theoretical Biology gives us a sneak peek into the world of computational biology. [23/04/2020]

Lively response to #stayathomeplants
On our social media channels we asked for pictures of "#stayathomeplants". Thanks a lot for your feedback and the great pictures! [17/04/2020]

Björn Usadel is appointed to a W3 professorship at HHU
Besides his work at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Björn Usadel is head of the Institute of Biological Data Science since 1 April (photo: Raimund Knauf). [07/04/2020]

Plant Breeding for the Bio-Economy
CEPLAS member Günter Strittmatter writes in an article for the "Wissenschaftsjahr 2020" about the importance of Plant Breeding for the Bio-Economy. [30/03/2020]

Open position
Team Leader (m,f,d) in Plant Genome Engineering [27/03/2020]

Plant Science @home
For everybody currently stuck at home we have put together some nice little experiments [20/03/2020]

Planter's Punch is back!
Read about one special aspect of the CEPLAS research program written by one of our early career researchers. [20/03/2020]

New issue of CEPLAS Faces
In the current issue of CEPLAS Faces we interviewed Alga Zuccaro from the University of Cologne. [19/03/2020]

Our CEPLAS Equal Opportunity website has been updated!
Get an overview of our old and new measures and our achievements so far. [19/03/2020]

New representatives of the CEPLAS Postdocs
Rachel Denley Bowers and Uriel Urquiza have been elected as representatives of the CEPLAS Postdocs for the next year. [18/03/2020]

Sign in for Conference on Food for Future 2020
Between 14 and 15 September 2020 scientists will discuss cross-disciplinary aspects of the future of food production. [09/03/2020]

CEPLAS sets impulses for a plant based bioeconomy
Great participation at the "Salon Global Agriculture" in Berlin. [06/03/2020]

Articles wanted for Special Issue
For a special issue of "Frontiers in Plant Science" contributions on "Plant tumor formation under plant-fungi interactions" are requested. [06/03/2020]

Apply to the CEPLAS Graduate School
The call for this year's PhD program at CEPLAS Graduate School is open! [03/03/2020]

CEPLAS at Salon Global Agriculture
At the event in Berlin, Peter Westhoff and Andreas Weber discuss about the significance of plant science for the bio economy. [02/03/2020]

CEPLAS researcher initiates cooperation in India
HHU and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective to combat rice diseases in India. [28/02/2020]