CEPLAS-News
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 position
New position as Student/ Research Assistant (f/m/d) at the Institute for Plant Genetics at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf available. [12/01/2023]
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]
New publication on iron uptake
Together with a research team at HHU CEPLAS member Petra Bauer reports on how plants protect themselves from oxidative stress during iron uptake. [21/12/2022]
Peer Power! mentoring program
10 group leaders from different institutions (CEPLAS, MPIPZ, CECAD MPI-AGE and MPI Metabolism) have met for the new peer mentoring program. [20/12/2022]
How bacteria and plants become friends
How can bacteria adapt to a new plant? In a new issue of the Planter's Punch CEPLAS doctoral researcher Niklas Kiel tells us about his research. [19/12/2022]
Open position
Position as a Technical Assistant (f/m/d) at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne available. [15/12/2022]
The role of membrane proteins as necessary gatekeepers
In a new Planter's Punch the doctoral researcher Anastasija Plett (HHU) explains why the characterization of transport proteins is so important. [25/11/2022]
New Collaborative Research Center at HHU
CEPLAS member Michael Feldbrügge (HHU) was successful with his CRC proposal: MibiNet - microbial networking. [25/11/2022]
Graduate Class 2022 in Portugal
The CEPLAS Graduate Class 2022 participates in the one-week course in Oeiras at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC). [23/11/2022]
CEPLAS researcher receives ERC Starting Grant
Rubén Garrido Oter (MPIPZ) receives the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council. [22/11/2022]
Eight CEPLAS members honored as "Highly cited researchers"
Congratulations to Jijie Chai, Wolf Frommer, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Stéphane Hacquard, Jane Parker, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Bart Thomma and Björn Usadel [16/11/2022]
Podcast with Petra Bauer
In a podcast produced in cooperation with "keep it grün," Petra Bauer talks about the "iron problem" and how to adapt the garden to it. [08/11/2022]
New position
New Bioinformatics postdoctoral position (f/m/d) at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne available. [08/11/2022]
Planter's Punch about fungi protecting plants
The CEPLAS doctoral researcher Ruben Eichfeld (HHU) explains how microbes are able to restrict pathogen infection of plants. [25/10/2022]
New fellowships within the Graduate School
The CEPLAS Graduate School offers a new PhD program starting in October 2023. Application deadline is December 12, 2022. [24/10/2022]