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PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Adrián Contreras!

Congratulations, Dr. Adrián Contreras!
PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Benjamin Buchfink!

Benjamin Buchfink defended his thesis today. Congratulations!
Max PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Maximilian Collenberg!

Max successfully defended his thesis today.

Out in NAR: Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies (OA)

In-depth comparison of PacBio CLR and HiFi assemblies

Congratulations, Dr. Alejandra Duque!

Alejandra successfully defended her thesis

Now in Quant. Plant Biol.: New tool for DNA methlyation analysis

Methylscore to ID differentially methylated regions

Former postdoc Jiawei Wang wins Xplorer Prize

..which comes with a personal cash award of 3M RMB (~430,000€)

Detlef spoke at Kinderuni

Covered in our local newspaper Tübingen Children's University Max…

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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
Hot take: Scientists should not publish less, but review less. First, avoid multiple rounds of reviews that never see the light of day by following a publish-review-curate (PRC) model such as @elife.bsky.social or follow the Review Commons model. 1/n[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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In dark times, good to read an optimistic (hopefully not hit) take on the transition to carbon neutral energy: “The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think”https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2024/11/14/the-energy-transition-will-be-much-cheaper-than-you-think
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Job opportunity!ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR (TIER 2) IN PLANT RESILIENCE FOR FOOD SECURITY#plantscience #plantscijobshttps://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/UBC/Botany/CRC22024
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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
Updated version of TIPPo, our user-friendly assembler for organellar genomes from high-accuracy long read data @wenfeixian.bsky.social @zbao.bsky.social #plantsciencehttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.29.577798v3
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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
Great opportunity! Multiple doctoral researcher positions in Moi Exposito-Alonso's lab ("Moilab") at UC Berkeley. Moi is a fantastic mentor, his group does cutting-edge work on evolutionary genomics and the lab is very well funded!#plantscience #plantscijobshttps://drive.google.com/open?id=17bZJm5UMwiKnfJO-bhBNuXLJLYVw96Pv&usp=drive_copy
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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
Terrific initiative by early-career researchers who are organising a symposium to highlight cross-disciplinary collaborations between experimental and computational scientists. Abstract submission closes on Dec 13!https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/interphace-symposium-2025
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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️
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