CEPLAS-News

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 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]

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

Open position
Open position in Plant-Microbe Interaction Research [19/03/2018]

How to increase photosynthetic efficiency in plants?
Learn how modifications in the leaf anatomy can improve photosynthetic performance in our new Planter's Punch. [15/03/2018]

CEPLAS Annual Report 2017 out now!
Our latest annual report is online and can be downloaded here. [08/03/2018]

Congratulations!
CEPLAS PI Oliver Ebenhöh was appointed to a W2 professorship in Quantitative and Theoretical Biology at HHU. [06/03/2018]