CEPLAS-News

Transatlantic Tandem Talk is online
The Transatlantic Tandem Talk with Alga Zuccaro took place on May 7th. Watch the talk on YouTube and learn how microbes can boost plant performance. [18/05/2021]

Press briefing on green Genetic Engineering
Andreas Weber participated in a press briefing of the Science Media Center on the topic of green Genetic Engineering and ecology. [05/05/2021]

The active role of bundle sheath cells
CEPLAS member Stan Kopriva released a paper together with a group of researchers in the Plant Journal about bundle sheath cells in rice. [04/05/2021]

Statement on the EC study on new genomic techniques
Researchers welcome the EC's assessment on the adaptation of the current GMO legislation [30/04/2021]

New issue of CEPLAS Faces - On Air
In this issue, CEPLAS Graduate School member Jona Ejike answers our questions. [30/04/2021]

Innovative biotechnology for a sustainable agriculture
Together with an international group of authors, Andreas Weber published an article in the Journal "Trends in Plants Science". [23/04/2021]

CEPLAS at Girls' Day
Wolf Frommer's lab group provided insights into scientific work and careers to female school students. (photo: HHU) [22/04/2021]

Transatlantic Tandem Talk
CEPLAS member Alga Zuccaro speaks at the Transatlantic Tandem Talk about "The Food Fix: Superplants, Microbe Sidekicks and Nutrient Heroes". [22/04/2021]

Life is sweeter with flowers
In a new issue of the Planter's Punch Yohanna Miotto (MPIPZ Cologne) describes the role of sugars as messengers in signal transduction. [21/04/2021]

How plants attract more nitrogen producing bacteria
CEPLAS member Marcel Bucher published together with an international researcher team an article in the Journal Nature Plants. [12/04/2021]

DFG Third-Party Funding for Götz Hensel
In a project with the Kiel University, CEPLAS member Götz Hensel will elucidate the function of the barley WHIRLY1 protein. [09/04/2021]

Humboldt Research Fellowship
CEPLAS member Yohanna Miotto was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. Congratulations! [23/03/2021]

Open position
Bioinformatics postdoctoral position in the field of plant-microbe interactions at the University of Cologne available. [23/03/2021]

Vera Göhre at HHumans
CEPLAS member Vera Göhre shares her everyday life as a researcher in an interview for the HHU project HHumans. [19/03/2021]

Expert Hearing on Genome Editing
CEPLAS members Maria von Korff Schmising, Andreas Weber und Ulrich Schurr participated as experts in a hearing in the "NRW Landtag". [18/03/2021]

Training molecular spies
In the new issue of the Planter's Punch the postdoc Yuuma Ishikawa from HHU explains how to make the invisible visible. [18/03/2021]

Promote diversity and protect ecosystems
In an article for the "Wissenschaftsjahr 2020/21" CEPLAS members Céline Hönl and Günter Strittmatter write about plant research and bioeconomy. [17/03/2021]

Céline Hönl nominated as "Heine-Frau"
CEPLAS managing coordinator Céline Hönl was awarded for her special commitment in the social and professional context at HHU. [16/03/2021]

New issue of CEPLAS Faces On Air
The CEPLAS Early Career Researcher Svenja Augustin reveals why science communication is so important for her. [11/03/2021]

New representatives elected
Daniel Moser and Ilyse Putz have been elected as PhD representatives, Uriel Urquiza and Adélaïde Raguin as representatives of the CEPLAS Postdocs for… [25/02/2021]

New Planter's Punch is out!
Jia Yu (MPIPZ) describes with illustrative cartoons how plants affect the social life of microorganisms. [24/02/2021]

New Publication
The group of Maria von Korff Schmising published a study on the genetic regulation of barley inflorescences. [15/02/2021]

CEPLAS doctoral students congratulate the mouse
The “Sendung mit der Maus” celebrates its 50th anniversary! CEPLAS congratulates in a video. [12/02/2021]

Open position
Open position as a postdoc available at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne. [12/02/2021]