Impressions from CEPLAS research

Wildgerste am MPIPZ
Investigation of 3000 non-domesticated wild barley plants. They have brittle spikes and are therefore bagged to collect seed material.
Foto of precision air seeder
Sowing of 5000 different Spring barley genotypes to analyse phenotypic performance under various environmental conditions.
Arabidopsis thaliana plants at different stages in the greenhouse. Many of the CEPLAS groups are working with this model plant.
In-vitro cultures of Cardamine hirsuta, which is a model system to study evolution of plant development.
The perennial plant Arabis alpina is used in several experiments regarding flowering control.
Massenspektrometrie
Plant Metabolism and Metabolomics Lab: Metabolite analysis by gas-chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-MS).

Impressions from CEPLAS events and activities

Lecture series "Vom Maisanbau der Mayas zu heutigen Superfoods", June/July 2017 (more information)

Verschiedene Maiskolben
get together nach dem Vortrag


Launch of the Competence Area IV "Food Security", May 2017 (more information)

Kick off Symposium Food Security
Kick off Symposium Food Security
Kick off Symposium Food Security
Kick off Symposium Food Security


Fascination of Plants Day, May 2017 (more information)

Schüler beim Fascinbation of Plants Day
Schüler beim Fascination of Plants Day
Schüler beim Fascination of Plants Day
Schüler beim Fascination of Plants Day


CEPLAS Career Speed Dating, April 2017 (more information)

Networking at CEPLAS Career Speed Dating event


Excursion to KWS SAAT SE in Einbeck, January 2017 (more information)

Gruppenbild Exkursion KWS Gewächshaus 2017
Poster Session
Vortrag bei KWS
Abendessen Exkursion


Young Reseachers Seminar, October 2016

Gruppenbild CEPLAS
Heinrich Heine University
University of Cologne
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Forschungszentrum Jülich