New publication on fungi infections
Together with a team of researchers, CEPLAS member Michael Feldbrügge identified the molecular mechanisms of fungi infection. [28/09/2023]
Congratulations!!
CEPLAS Postdoc Ernesto Llamas won second place in the BioRiverBoost! 2023 start-up competition for life science founders! [26/09/2023]
New Planter's Punch
CEPLAS doctoral researcher Svenja Augustin (HHU) reveals how her favorite plant Arabidopsis thaliana maintains its ability to grow. [22/09/2023]
Publication on amaranth domestication
Markus Stetter (UoC) published a paper about how genetic incompatibilities and evolutionary rescue by wild relatives shaped amaranth domestication. [19/09/2023]
Discussion event on plants as CO2 storage
CEPLAS scientists discussed the role of plants in the fight against climate change with a guest from Münster and the audience. [15/09/2023]
CEPLAS doctoral researcher received Rudolf Mansfeld Prize 2023
Tom Winkler (UoC) has been awarded the prize for his master thesis about gene expression during amaranth domestication. [13/09/2023]
School in Duisburg wins Carbon Challenge
A school team from Franz Haniel Gymnasium achieved the highest amount of biomass on a 1-square-meter parcel. [05/09/2023]
CEPLAS speaker at Chancentalk at the BMBF
Maria von Korff Schmising and IPK researcher Robert Hoffie talked about their research and new genomic techniques at the Federal Ministry of Education… [31/08/2023]
Planter's Punch about the language of fungi
The new Planter's Punch from postdoctoral researcher Concetta De Quattro (UoC) is about the regulation of fungal effector genes. [29/08/2023]
FastFungiFinder wins HHU idea competition
Three students of the study program QuantBio won the first prize in the category "students" and spoke about their innovative idea in an interview. [25/08/2023]
New publication about PSII assembly
Together with a research team CEPLAS member Ute Armbruster (HHU) discovered the first eukaryote-specific factor of PSII assembly. [24/08/2023]
CEPLAS member receives prestigious Future Science Prize
Jijie Chai (MPIPZ) has been awarded the Future Science Prize together with Jian-Min Zhou for their work an plant resistosomes. [18/08/2023]
Open position
Position of a W3 professorship for Crop Biology at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf available. [17/08/2023]
Two CEPLAS members at the Digital Demo Day
Ilka Axmann and Markus Kollmann (both HHU) present their research and technologies at the Digital Demo Day 2023 in Düsseldorf. [15/08/2023]
Funding for "Urban Gardening"
CEPLAS member Petra Bauer (HHU) was successful with her proposal in the program "Bügeruniversität in der Lehre" for the next two semesters. [14/08/2023]
Soapbox Science in Düsseldorf
Eleven enthusiastic female researchers presented their work in the centre of Düsseldorf. [07/08/2023]
New publication about fungal pathogens
A group of scientists led by CEPLAS members Paul Schulze-Lefert and Jijie Chai (both MPIPZ) published a new paper in the Journal PNAS. [03/08/2023]
Open position
Open position as a student assistant (f/m/d) at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne available. [02/08/2023]
CEPLAS Faces with Paul Schulze-Lefert
In an interview CEPLAS member Paul Schulze-Lefert (MPIPZ Cologne) reveals what advice he would give to scientists who want to found a start-up. [26/07/2023]
Open position
New position as a postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d) in Computational Biology at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne available. [26/07/2023]
When 1 plus 1 is not always 2
In the new Planter's Punch the CEPLAS doctoral researcher Nhu Tran (UoC) describes the components of genetic variation with illustrative pictures. [19/07/2023]
New publications
In two new papers CEPLAS member Martin Lercher and his team (HHU) describe how to predict enzymatic reactions using AI methods. [19/07/2023]
Open statement
on the proposal of the EU Commission on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed [05/07/2023]
New Publication
The "Healthy Crops" research consortium led by CEPLAS member Wolf Frommer reports on disease-resistant rice varieties in the scientific journal eLife. [29/06/2023]